IOE Events. For our latest debate we moved further down the education pipeline, to higher education. We wanted to look at why the pace of progress in widening access across our universities has felt so slow. We were inspired by…
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Fair access: are comprehensive universities the answer?
Tagged with: social mobility, universities, university access
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education, IOE debates, young people
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education, IOE debates, young people
Brexit: German universities among those poised to benefit if researchers and funding shift
Humboldt University in Berlin. German universities may emerge as ‘winners’ from Brexit. Tilemahos Efthimiadis, CC BY Aline Courtois The UK is currently the second-largest recipient of competitive research funding from the EU: 6% of students and 17% of staff in…
Tagged with: Brexit, European higher education, research funding, universities
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education
Universities have a crucial post-Brexit role in working across borders
Simon Marginson. At first, after the June referendum, it was unclear what ‘Brexit’ meant, but the post-Brexit landscape is now emerging. Theresa May will table the complex bill to leave the EU in the House of Commons in March 2017,…
Tagged with: Brexit, international students, Simon Marginson, universities
Posted in Education policy, Further higher and lifelong education, Research matters
Posted in Education policy, Further higher and lifelong education, Research matters
Brexit: UK universities face new world order
Peter Scott. The UK’s decision to abandon Europe, which is what leaving the European Union amounts to, has come as a shock – not least in the UK where many people who voted ‘out’ never expected to win. Essentially this…
Tagged with: Brexit, education policy, oto o Ramsay Thomson, Peter Scott, universities
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education
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