Author

Colin McCaig

Professor of Higher Education Policy

Dr Colin McCaig is a Professor of Higher Education Policy at Sheffield Hallam University’s Sheffield Institute of Education.

4 pieces

Newest first, since October 2014

1 August 2019 · Analysis
Admissions: a contextualised tale of two reviews
Two concurrent reviews of admissions practice feel like a lot for Colin McCaig, who looks back to Schwartz to understand what may follow.
11 December 2018 · Analysis
A graduate tax: the right solution for the wrong problem?
Colin McCaig takes us through the long and interesting history of the graduate tax.
22 February 2016 · Analysis
Lifting (or doffing) the cap: patterns of student acceptance across the sector
Two years ago, in the November 2013 Autumn Statement, Chancellor George Osborne surprised us all by announcing the removal of the student numbers cap. What effect did the policy have on pre and post 1992 universities?
13 October 2014 · Analysis
The strange death of student number controls
In December 2013 in his Annual Autumn Statement the UK Chancellor George Osbourne announced the end of the Student Number Control (SNC) regime for English higher education institutions, thereby removing the cap on places