Spill The News

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For the time being at least, we have notionally centre-left governments across England, Scotland and Wales.

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Wonkhe and IDP Education are exploring what the HE sector needs to do now to secure the success of the government’s International Education Strategy. Rachel MacSween and Debbie McVitty parse out the question of "quality"

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Wonkhe and IDP Education are exploring what the HE sector needs to do now to secure the success of the government’s International Education Strategy. Rachel MacSween and Debbie McVitty parse out the question of "quality"

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Public and DfE responses have been published today

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With the UK back in Erasmus+ and a Eurovision entry doing double duty as policy argument, Maia Chankseliani asks whether the return will finally reach apprentices and vocational learners

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With the UK back in Erasmus+ and a Eurovision entry doing double duty as policy argument, Maia Chankseliani asks whether the return will finally reach apprentices and vocational learners

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Against a backdrop of the industrial strategy and UKRI’s new approach, Michael Salmon argues that perennial debates over Wales’ research system will come into sharpened focus under the next government

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Against a backdrop of the industrial strategy and UKRI’s new approach, Michael Salmon argues that perennial debates over Wales’ research system will come into sharpened focus under the next government

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With DSA reductions already underway, Jim Dickinson argues that new research describes essential disabled student support that DfE is preparing to cut without a replacement plan

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With DSA reductions already underway, Jim Dickinson argues that new research describes essential disabled student support that DfE is preparing to cut without a replacement plan

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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