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BIS Technical Consultation: a new, fit-for-purpose regulatory framework for the Higher Education sector (pdf-426KB)
Higher Education White Paper – Students at the Heart of the System.
Impact Assessment of the proposals in the White Paper.
Equality Impact Assessment of the proposals in the White Paper.
Economic analysis to support the White Paper.
Implementation plan for how the proposals in the White Paper will be taken forward.
Consultation document on potential early payment mechanisms for student loans.
A summary of the Government’s response to the recommendations made by the Independent Review of Higher Education and Student Finance.
A summary of the Government’s response to Professor Sir Adrian Smith’s Postgraduate Review.
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It would be really valuable for prospective students to be able to see information on the proportion of tutorials taught by PhD/postgraduate students rather than the advertised lecturers and professors as this has a real bearing on quality and the value that courses offer.
Does 6.19 mean that HEIs will be released from being defined as a public body under FOIA?
Nigel, thanks for your comment. We are not proposing at this stage to release HEIs from this definition. Higher education institutions are currently subject to a wide range of regulation, including Freedom of Information legislation. We will ask the Higher Education Better Regulation Group to look across the regulatory landscape and identity areas for deregulation, whilst still safeguarding the interests of students and the taxpayer. They will report back by November and we will then consider how best to proceed.
Impressed by the very high quality of presentation, and the very contemporary engagement with leading social media tools. Government consultation with communities in the 21st century, at its best!
I note that attempts will be made to reduce the data demands on university managements. I hope that there will be a corresponding requirement for HESA to make much more accessible the data it does collect without the need to use the Freedom of Information Act.
Finance, Business, a destructive ethos of Competition rather than cooperation, and the self-righteousness of a millionaire Government in denial about the fraudulence of its financial system, are (on the evidence of its contents) at the heart of this White Paper, it being misleading to suggest that students are at the heart of our educational system, for they are so inevitably. What is so evidently missing is any understanding of honest money and the purpose of Politics, Economics and University Education.
Briefly, on these last, Aristotle spent some time discussing musical harmonising in his “Politics”, and Ruskin got to the twin purposes of Economics in “Unto This Last” and “The Crown of Wild Olive”. Newman’s “Idea of a University” more or less grasped the fact that in a world of specialisation and training on the job, we need to gain some understanding of how the rest of us think and live. On honest money, the truth is that banks only issue credit notes, and the only way to repay the debts we incur by buying what already exists is not by enriching bankers but by doing that for which the credit was given and regenerating that which we use: here gaining and regenerating understanding.
Though “Utopia” continues to receive an uncomprehending press, since Henry VIII re-legalised usury, “Erewhon” has become very much alive and to its satirical point. Which is why I offer this advice hopefully but with little expectation it will be appreciated or even understood. Certainly, this White Paper has ensured that I am one of the many who have no confidence in the Higher Education policies of this Government.
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Will BIS be publishing the update to Professor Sir Adrian Smith’s Postgraduate Review? It was reported that the committee had been reconvened to reconsider the original review in order to inform the White Paper but the resulting advice does not appear to have been published.
Re students at the heart of the system. Course reviews of the student experience should be undertaken after the final award not before. And the review should be carried out by independant assessors.