SRHE

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Based on findings from the project ‘Learning from Labour: Critical Pedagogy for Working Students’ carried out at Middlesex University in 2022-2023, the study explores the educational and employment challenges faced by working students in UK post-92 universities ( MDX News, 2023 ). His monograph Media, Conflict and Diaspora (I.B.

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SRHE

JANUARY 18, 2023

He went back excitedly to his department to tell them the good news, but they pointed out that by giving the grant away the whole department was doomed. Rob Cuthbert, editor of SRHE News and Blog, is emeritus professor of higher education management, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Fellow of SRHE. You decide.

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SRHE

JULY 15, 2022

by Rob Cuthbert, SRHE News Editor. SRHE News was rethought and relaunched in 2010 as a service to members, and since 2014 has developed an associated blog which is now read by researchers, policymakers and managers in more than 110 countries worldwide. The range, scope and quality of SRHE’s journals have continued to grow.

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SRHE

MAY 2, 2023

by Rob Cuthbert One of the benefits of SRHE membership is exclusive access to the quarterly newsletter, SRHE News , www.srhe.ac.uk/publications/srhe-newsletter. SRHE News typically contains a round-up of recent academic events and conferences, policy developments and new publications, written by editor Rob Cuthbert.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 27, 2023

A graduate of Oxford University with a Master’s in Management and Chinese, Daniel has been featured on CNBC, BBC News, and Bloomberg for his work in developing global employability programs. You are definitely not a UK player, per se. You sound like you’re from the UK. I’m still sticking with the UK, US, and Australia.

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The Guardian Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Education secretary Gillian Keegan will also squeeze funding for programmes to widen access to higher education Ministers will cut funding for performing and creative arts courses at English universities next year, which sector leaders say will further damage the country’s cultural industries.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

Union claims up to a quarter of all academic roles at financially pressed London institution face the axe Plans for mass redundancies at Goldsmiths, University of London, have been called a “horrifying act of cultural and social vandalism” and the “biggest assault on jobs at any UK university in recent years”.

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SRHE

APRIL 17, 2024

In 2024 we do expect a general election, but we don’t expect the massive problems for UK HE to be an election issue. That was the good news. A new government was entitled to try a new policy for HE, as it did. The war on woke has not perhaps reached that pitch in the UK yet. It didn’t work, so what happened next?

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

A survey of more than 1,000 UK undergraduates, conducted by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi), found 53% were using AI to generate material for work they would be marked on. One in four are using applications such as Google Bard or ChatGPT to suggest topics and one in eight are using them to create content.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

Open letter backed by Rowan Williams and Aled Jones says decision is backward step ‘for arts provision for women in the UK’ A decision to axe a mixed choir at St John’s College, Cambridge, in an attempt to make room for a “broader” range of music has been condemned as “fundamentally regressive” by the former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, (..)

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

In response to Charlotte Higgins’s article on a collapse in arts funding Neil Mendoza says Arts Council England boosts cultural projects across the country; plus letters from Dr Alexis Bennett and Andrew Dailey Charlotte Higgins makes the familiar charge that “Arts funding has collapsed under 14 years of Tory rule” ( Opinion, 19 March ).

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Government’s underestimation of inflation has eroded teaching resources, according to thinktank University students in England are seeing less spent on their education than at any time since their tuition fees were tripled in 2012, according to new analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Institution will remove Edward Colston’s insignia from its logo and set up £10m racial inequalities fund The University of Bristol has decided against retitling its buildings that are named after people with links to the transatlantic slave trade, but has pledged £10m to help address racial inequalities over the next decade.

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Campaigners say move would save lives and bring England and Wales in line with other countries The high court is to consider for the first time whether universities owe a legal duty of care to their students, which campaigners argue would save lives and bring England and Wales in line with other countries.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 17, 2023

Driscoll raises funds needed to pay for campaign after leaving Labour and announcing plans to run against former party In his interview for broadcasters this morning Rishi Sunak also paid tribute to Ben Wallace, following the defence secretary’s announcement that he expects to leave cabinet at the next reshuffle and to stand down as an MP at the next (..)

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Housing costs forcing undergraduates and master’s students to work long hours or commute Elena Dirik is studying politics and sociology in Bristol, the UK’s most expensive city in which to study after London, and has so far stayed afloat thanks to care-leaver bursaries and working in two jobs.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Office for Students reviewing courses by subcontractors amid concerns of potential loan abuse and poor education standards England’s higher education regulator is to launch its first investigation into “franchise students” enrolled on university courses run by subcontractors, amid concerns about poor quality and potential abuse of student loans.

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Raising maintenance loans in England in line with forecasts, not actual inflation, could cause ‘significant hardship this winter’ England’s poorest students will be more than £1,000 worse off this academic year than the last, according to a new analysis that warns of “significant hardship for many this winter”.

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Higher levels of poor mental health in England could be linked to worries about money and academic achievement, findings suggest University students are more at risk of depression and anxiety than their peers who go straight into work, according to a study, suggesting mental health may deteriorate due to the financial strain of higher education.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2023

Keir Starmer says sluggish economy has driven up prices and is holding back students and apprentices UK growth will be the slowest in the G7 in 2024, Labour analysis of the latest economic forecasts shows, as Keir Starmer said that the economic climate would prevent him from going to university today.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Labour says inflation may force more students to drop out, as those in England get just £200 more on average Students from Wales will get £1,000 more to help with the cost of living crisis while those in England get just £200 on average, as Labour MPs said inflation may force more students to drop out of university.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Exclusive: Move penalises courses with a high proportion of working-class or minority ethnic students, critics say Rishi Sunak will force universities to limit the number of students taking “low-value” degrees in England, a measure which is most likely to hit working class and black, Asian and minority ethnic applicants.

Higher Education 76

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 17, 2023

Housing | Private landlords in England have seen their assets grow in value by £400bn from rising house prices in the last three decades, which is enough money to build at least 3m council homes, research suggests.

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The Guardian Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2023

Strangers stopped to listen in the street when the windows were open and the girls from refugee family were practising When a Northumberland couple opened up their village home to a Ukrainian mother and her two daughters last year, they were responding to the plight of refugees escaping the Russian invasion.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

George Holmes says employers favour applicants from better-known institutions, as he plans to change university’s name Students from non-Russell Group universities miss out on high-powered jobs because of prejudice by employers, the vice-chancellor of the University of Bolton has said as he prepares to rename it the University of Greater Manchester. (..)

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Below-inflation rise described as ‘woefully inadequate’, with students estimated to be losing out on £1,500 Student maintenance loans in England will go up by 2.8% next year, the government has confirmed, despite soaring inflation and mounting concern about the impact of the cost of living crisis on students.

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Majority of campus branches refuse to take part in action scheduled for 25-29 September The University and College Union has backed away from UK-wide strikes scheduled for next week, after two-thirds of campus branches declined to take part.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

Research carried out this month for the Sutton Trust found nearly a quarter of the 1,000 UK students interviewed said they were “less likely” to be able to complete their degree because of cost pressures, while one in three said they were cutting down on food to save money.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 2, 2023

Group issues 12-point plan calling for stricter immigration rules for care workers, students and refugees Rishi Sunak is facing demands from “red wall” Conservative MPs to slash the number of overseas care workers, foreign students and refugees allowed into the UK in time for the next election. Continue reading.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Arif Ahmed pledges to remain politically neutral in his role and to ensure academic freedoms are maintained England’s newly appointed university free speech tsar says his role is not to conduct “culture wars” and has pledged to be politically neutral in his efforts to combat threats to academic freedom.

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

The prince, who was renowned for his good looks, has captivated a new generation of audiences through the TV show Outlander.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

means students will have to cut back on food and books, says report The Department for Education has admitted students in England face a “negative impact” from its refusal to increase support in line with inflation, saying they will have to cut back on food and books as a result. Raising maintenance loans by only 2.8%

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Students and academics know cancelling speakers is trivial compared with the structural collapse in tertiary education Kojo Koram teaches at the School of Law at Birkbeck, University of London It was recently announced that the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is due to appoint the UK’s first “free speech tsar” in order to combat the apparent epidemic (..)

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

Nearly 1,000 students attempt group action against UCL, accusing it of breaking promises Lawyers representing almost 1,000 current and former students, whose studies were affected by Covid and strike action, told the high court in London their clients felt “cheated” by their educational experience and should be entitled to seek compensation through (..)

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The Guardian Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Study shows cost of living influencing students’ choice, with fears of limiting effect on career options ‘I’m better off at home’: the commuter student One in three students starting university this year may opt to live at home, according to new research that found rising costs and family needs are affecting the “Covid generation” of school-leavers.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Graduates now owe an average amount of £45,000, Student Loans Company figures have revealed Outstanding student loans in England have surpassed £200bn for the first time – 20 years earlier than previous government forecasts, as the number of students at universities continues to outstrip expectations.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A review of research into the employment effects of higher and further education by the government’s Social Mobility Commission showed wide variations in earnings, with some courses failing to boost salaries, while the most lucrative courses for graduates often admitted few students in England from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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