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To measure is to know: two decades of change in UK higher education through the lens of the sector’s own statistics
This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Dr Helen Carasso, Honorary Norham Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, and Andrew Plume, Vice President of Research Evaluation at Elsevier. In July and August, we are running chapters from the Anniversary Collection as a series of blogs. This piece is the second chapter from that collection.
Working it out - Research Professional News
Helen Carasso argues that employer contributions should feature in any rethink of higher education finance It is more than 25 years since the Dearing report made explicit the principle that all beneficiaries of higher education should share responsibility for funding the system and its students.
The Augar Review: what it could mean for students and universities
After many months of delay, while it was caught up in the policy vacuum created by Brexit, the Augar Review has finally been published. This independent government-commissioned report, chaired by Philip Augar, a British author and former equities broker, highlights a number of recommendations for post-18 education. Beyond the headline cut to tuition fees, the review aims to “ensure a joined-up system that works for everyone”.
Why universities are spending millions on marketing
Dr Helen Carasso – Copyright University of Oxford A guest blog kindly contributed by Dr Helen Carasso. She teaches and researches higher education policy in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. Drawing on her professional experience in university communications, marketing and student recruitment, she has a particular interest in questions relating to fees, funding and marketisation.
What you need to know about the tuition fee review - and how it could affect students
The long awaited review of funding across the whole of English higher and further education has been announced by Theresa May – signalling changes to undergraduate fees and loans (again). The review fulfils a commitment made in the 2017 Conservative manifeso and can be seen as a move by the prime minister to assert her authority over education policy now her new team is in place following the recent reshuffle.
The Costs of University Privatisation · LRB 23 October 2013
It’s time for the criticism to stop. Whatever you think about the changes to higher education that have been made in recent years, in particular the decision in the autumn of 2010 largely to replace public funding of teaching with student fees, this is now the system we’ve got. Carping about the principle or sniping at the process is simply unhelpful: it antagonises ministers and officials, thereby jeopardising future negotiations, and it wins little sympathy from the media and wider public.
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