Spill The News

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Jim Dickinson gets across DfE's latest news on Alternative Student Finance – and finds the government has accidentally reinvented the graduate tax for Muslim students

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Jim Dickinson gets across DfE's latest news on Alternative Student Finance – and finds the government has accidentally reinvented the graduate tax for Muslim students

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At Education Questions in the Commons today, Department for Education (DfE) minister Josh MacAlister said this unprompted:

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But why now?

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Director of The Post-18 Project John Blake sets out why thirty years of policy struggle has left England without the higher education system it deserves

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Director of The Post-18 Project John Blake sets out why thirty years of policy struggle has left England without the higher education system it deserves

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Kashan Pirzada explains how leadership systems which prioritise immediate and countable outputs may generate short-term activity without longer-term impact

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Jakob Feldfos Christensen asks what your equality, diversity, and inclusion approaches need in an increasingly complex and unstable world

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If we have indeed found evidence of DfE plans to prop up the sector, what might such a scheme look like?

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Rita Gardner stresses the benefits of deeper embedding of robust social science evidence and methodologies in the world of government policy

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Jim Dickinson unpacks the fallout from a DfE crackdown on weekend course misclassification – and finds students caught between forced repayment, forced delivery changes, and a system that is unlikely to accept blame

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Jim Dickinson unpacks the fallout from a DfE crackdown on weekend course misclassification – and finds students caught between forced repayment, forced delivery changes, and a system that is unlikely to accept blame