Author
Alex Proudfoot
Chief Executive, Independent Higher Education
Alex Proudfoot is Chief Executive of Independent Higher Education, and a trustee of the UK Council for International Student Affairs.
7 pieces
Newest first, since March 2017
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Regulating partnership provision can help everyone
For IHE chief executive Alex Proudfoot, it is time to strengthen all academic partnerships, not just some
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Hate to say we told you so
Independent HE has faced issues with registration and degree awarding powers processes for years. For Alex Proudfoot, the OfS decision to pause this statutory activity is the latest in a long line of mistakes
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Taking partnerships seriously at the outset could have avoided a franchising furore
Much of the higher education sector relies on partnership relationships. Alex Proudfoot argues that lax regulation of franchised provision is in nobody’s interests except fraudsters
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Registration isn’t working for the sector’s SMEs
For IHE’s Alex Proudfoot, the Bloomsbury Institute decision highlights problems with a system of regulation that has never understood the independent sector.
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We’re not “alternative providers”, we’re higher education’s SMEs
There’s much more to be done to help the independent HE sector to realise its full potential, argues Alex Proudfoot
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Independent providers left behind by Augar
What about us? Alex Proudfoot argues that the challenges faced by independent providers have been forgotten by the Augar Panel.
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Regulator validation is essential for a high quality independent sector
Alex Proudfoot makes the case for the Office for Students to be the ‘validator of last resort’ in the Higher Education and Research Bill, in order to ensure further high quality new entrants to the higher education marke