69 pieces
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· Data
What’s that coming over the hill? Is it a metric monster?
There is more data available about higher education than ever, and now these datasets are being linked up. Ant Bagshaw looks at the opportunities and risks.
· Comment
(Bench)mark my words: managing preparations for subject-level TEF
Metrics of teaching and student experience are set to proliferate and increase in complexity as TEF hits full stride. Ant Bagshaw offers his reflections on mastering the new ‘survey mania’.
· Comment
Why students should be included in net migration figures
With the debate over international students front and centre of the HE Bill’s endgame in Parliament, Ant Bagshaw argues that the political debate over the issue has too often missed the nuance of the policy.
· Comment
If Oxbridge is the only solution, we’re asking the wrong questions
Mark Leach and Ant Bagshaw respond to Nick Hillman’s recent suggestion for the founding new Oxbridge colleges as a means to widen access.
With Mark Leach
· Analysis
Time for action on teaching excellence for taught postgraduates
We are still very much in the dark about the quality of taught postgraduate courses. Ant Bagshaw makes the case for introducing a PGTEF, and considers the barriers to making it a reality.
· Policy Watch
What Budget 2017 means for universities
There weren’t any rabbits pulled out of hats, but plenty of odds and ends for universities to consider in Philip Hammond’s first (and final) spring Budget.
With Nona Buckley-Irvine
· Policy Watch
Sainsbury’s Delivery: Technical education, employer leadership and careers guidance
As the government looks set to announce new cash for vocational education in this week’s Budget, Ant Bagshaw looks at the policy context around the announcement.
· Policy Watch
Give him credit? Course switching gets a nudge
As Jo Johnson launches a renewed push to ‘encourage’ universities to start a proper system of credit transfer, Ant Bagshaw reviews the history of this old idea and the current proposals on the table.
· Policy Watch
HEFCE launches consultation on REF2021
As HEFCE launch its consultation to take forward the Stern Review and implement the next Research Excellence Framework for 2021 we take a look at the key proposals and debates that are likely to follow.
With Mark Leach and David Morris
· Policy Watch
Fun with flags: how metrics will work in TEF outcomes
TEF outcomes will be determined by ‘flagging’ of teaching metrics. We explain how it will all work and what the likely spread of outcomes is shaping up to be.
With David Morris
· Data
Digesting the Longitudinal Educational Outcome data
On the day the government releases LEO data showing graduate earnings over time, we take a first look at the data, what it shows and what’s in store as the agenda develops.
With Mark Leach and Andrew McGettigan
· Analysis
Exchange rate starting to bite for university costs
Sterling is going down, and inflation is going up. But for some large costs for universities, inflation is far higher than the nationally reported rates. Just another way Brexit is hurting higher education in unexpected
· Policy Watch
Getting worse: HEFCE’s bleak prognosis for university finances
HEFCE’s latest forecast of universities’ finances is dramatically bleak compared to recent years. Ant Bagshaw looks at some of the most worrying findings.
· Comment
Don’t be scared of the detail: how to make TEF better
Ant Bagshaw follows up his criticisms of the TEF with some suggestions for how it might be improved, and even suggests a new name.
· Policy Watch
Trials and commendations: the TEF Technical Consultation response
The government has responded to the TEF Technical Consultation and set out its plans in more detail about year two of the TEF. Ant Bagshaw gives his first take on everything that’s changed (and everything that hasn’t).
· Analysis
Well informed? Research, teaching and TEF
Research-informed teaching is just one piece of a difficult jigsaw for the those designing future iterations of the TEF. Ant Bagshaw looks at some of the most recent commentary on the topic.
· Policy Watch
Levying the playing field: apprenticeships and universities
The apprenticeship levy has had a rough ride already, but universities willing to seize the day could play a vital role in upskilling the workforce and delivering new higher education in the workplace.
· Analysis
You Spin Me Right Round: A guide to writing your NSS press release
Ant Bagshaw pays tribute to university press officers toiling to make the most of their NSS results.
· Policy Watch
Not very hard a-Stern: a new course for the REF
Lord Stern’s review of the REF has listened to the sector’s views and has decided to tweak the rudder slightly rather than aim for a completely different location.
· Analysis
Eyes on the prize: sector will reap the benefits of future phases of TEF
Early versions of the TEF are coming under scrutiny from many different parts of the sector. But Ant Bagshaw argues that the short-term problems and pain of implementing now it will be worth it in the long-term.