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England and Scotland's funding experiments have both failed
2+ week, 14+ hour ago (693+ words) Craig Mahoney is a higher education academic and former Vice-Chancellor Higher education globally is locked in a desperate search for a sustainable funding model. In the United Kingdom, we have managed to create two distinct versions of a foolish tax....
Regional and local engagement is mission critical for the HE sector
3+ week, 18+ hour ago (460+ words) Peter O'Brien is executive director at Yorkshire Universities Jane Robinson is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement and Place at Newcastle University Helen Turner is Director of Midlands Innovation On 20 July, the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham stood in Downing Street, and set…...
The sector can be both optimistic and worried about Burnham’s HE agenda
3+ week, 5+ day ago (952+ words) John Blake is the Director of The Post-18 Project Noted public policy thinker and opponent-murdering enthusiast Vladimir Lenin allegedly once said: “There are decades when nothing happens, then there are weeks when decades happen.” The scale of devolution Burnham has…...
What Jason Arday’s tragic death reveals about the spectacularisation of racism and crisis of UK higher education
3+ week, 6+ day ago (646+ words) Christina Horvath is Reader in French Politics at the University of Bath When Dr Jason Arday was appointed the “youngest ever Black Professor” at the University of Cambridge in 2022, the story attracted considerable media attention, mostly for the wrong reasons....