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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

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SRHE News is now 50 issues old, covering a momentous 12 years for higher education worldwide, but especially in the UK, and even more especially in England – an opportunity to reflect on what we thought and how we felt as it happened, and whether things seem different now. by Rob Cuthbert. No 4 The English experiment ).

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SRHE News on Publishing: reports from April 2023

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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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A pantomime without a happy ending

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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. Higher Education Cinderella has been condemned to a life of servitude, enforced by the ugly sisters DfE and the Office for Students (you can’t usually tell them apart).

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The Helen Perkins era

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by Rob Cuthbert, SRHE News Editor. The annual SRHE Conference had traditionally been hosted each year by a different university, each time with a new conference organising committee and a new chair: that mode of operation was creaking and no longer fit for purpose.

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Jamie Driscoll to stand as independent candidate for north-east mayor after quitting Labour and raising £30,000 – UK politics live

The Guardian Higher Education

Asked if he was sorry to see Wallace go, Sunak replied: Of course I am … Ben’s been a great defence secretary. I’ve enjoyed working with him and he’s got a track record he can be very proud of. They’re being taken advantage of with low-quality courses that don’t lead to a job that it makes it worth it, leaves them financially worse-off.

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Ukrainian sisters lodging in Northumberland turn out to be musical prodigies

The Guardian Higher Education

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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Bolton graduates miss out on top jobs because of prejudice, says vice-chancellor

The Guardian Higher Education

Prof George Holmes, the UK’s longest-serving vice-chancellor, said graduates from Bolton struggled to be hired by prestigious law and accountancy firms as employers favoured recruiting from better-known universities that they or their family and friends had attended.