This may seem like a detail, but if you write a ‘brief history of UK higher education’ then you can’t briefly mention the founding of some Scottish and Welsh universities and then truncate the rest of the story at devolution. And you have to include Ireland. #Histed
A fair fees campaign says that student loans are ‘uniquely unfair’ - but hasn’t got a plan beyond that; just wants to have a campaign.
MPs asking questions on the Milburn Review - the 50% target on HE participation continues to live on in some heads despite having been repeatedly ‘abolished’. Here the target is rendered into an obsession by Reform’s education spokesperson.
Dear politicians
Future of the economy needs B. It happens in universities. A is not some alternative to B, and university does not only consist of D.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Clinical UG international fees are high, but at Cambridge all other UG fees are less than at, say, Winchester College. These feature in the cheery FT HTSI supplement (alongside other reassuringly expensive items)
Big community event in Headington today with the return of the festival, aided by it feeling like mid-August rather than the last day of Spring. Always good to see University engagement teams at these events.
Nine months ago @dkernohan.bsky.social did a nice summary of the 50% target that had survived more cancellations than Rasputin.
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OfS degree awarding powers news. From 1 July Academy of Live Technology will have time-limited power to award taught degrees up to masters level in five subject areas. When ALT first joined the register it was called ‘Backstage Academy’, its UK campus is in West Yorkshire.
This is right: the logic of the LLE has finally delivered parity in funding for accelerated degrees. The LLE might also allow some students to create their own accelerated courses - but many universities have moved away from their more open modular programmes.
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Here I contrast the proposed new condition on treating students fairly with the 1993 Charter for Higher Education. There’s a similarity in approach, but somehow we’ve got to the stage we now need to regulate HE providers from posting fake reviews.
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Keir Starmer joins the ranks of those to abandon Tony Blair's target of having 50 per cent of young people enter higher education. David Kernohan has the receipts
The OfS is consulting on a condition to enforce treating students fairly. This contrasted with the 1993 Charter for Higher Education. How far have we gone from the ‘Controlled Reputational Ra…
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The £450,000 degree: how English university fees for overseas students are surging ft.trib.al/5MfNgFc
Top-ranking universities plan a 29% rise in international undergraduate fees
