We’re almost twenty years into this century and each year has brought an increase in the politicisation of the UK’s universities, with the resulting knock-on effect on the student population. In 2002, Tony Blair said that the government’s target was for 50% of eighteen-year-olds to enter higher education – a figure which it subsequently transpiredContinueContinue reading “Jumping on the student gravy train”
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HE and Student Finance: The “Augar Report” – what’s in it?
“Post-18 report” or “Augar report” – there has been talk about this long-awaited report in the HE sector for a while, and it played a pivotal role in the discussions at the ABT Conference (see our last blog post). Yesterday, it finally was published, but what is all that about?? Last year, for the firstContinueContinue reading “HE and Student Finance: The “Augar Report” – what’s in it?”
Bums on Seats: Regulating the UK Higher Education Sector
Gold Leaf carries out a great deal of research in and around universities, both in the UK and in many other places in the world. An issue that several of its recent research projects has highlighted is the heightened competition to which the HE sector is now being subjected globally. In the UK, this wasContinueContinue reading “Bums on Seats: Regulating the UK Higher Education Sector”
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