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Universities ‘R’ Us

by CDBU Admin | Nov 16, 2016 | Government, Guest blog, Higher Education and Research Act

Guest blog by G. R. Evans If you are a higher education provider, HEFCE’s Blog brings you ‘three ways to reach out with good advice’ on offer from the Higher Education Outreach Network (HEON).  The four providers in the Network have designed ‘Quick Guides’ to make the...

The Higher Education and Research Bill: What’s Changing?

by CDBU Admin | May 27, 2016 | Guest blog, Higher Education and Research Act

Guest post by Gill Evans, Professor Emeritus of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge History demonstrates a longstanding need for vigilance about the creeping powers of Secretaries of State and the enthusiasm of Governments for...

Reflections on the Green Paper (2): Opening the Market to New Providers

by CDBU Admin | Dec 2, 2015 | Government, Higher Education and Research Act, Marketisation, Opinion

Opinion piece by Roger Brown Background The focus of the Green Paper is not just on students and teaching: it also envisages a situation where there will be more competition among providers of higher education, and new entrants into the system: We hope providers...

Reflections on the Green Paper: The Teaching Excellence Framework

by CDBU Admin | Nov 22, 2015 | Government, Opinion, TEF

Opinion Piece by Roger Brown Introduction In Everything for Sale? with Helen Carasso (Routledge, 2013) the writer argued that the main changes in higher education policy over the past thirty or so years could be explained in terms of the progressive marketisation of...

Abolishing fees for STEM subjects? Part II

by CDBU Admin | Feb 26, 2015 | CDBU Updates, Tuition fees

In the second of our two short videos responding to UKIP’s and Plaid Cymru’s STEM policy, Howard Hotson notes how abolishing fees for STEM subjects is logically...
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