Author
Gordon McKenzie
CEO, GuildHE
Gordon is Chief Executive of GuildHE and worked previously in HE Strategy and Policy at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
12 pieces
Newest first, since July 2015
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How higher education can make the weather
Reporting back from the GuildHE annual conference, Gordon McKenzie makes the case for a sector that is in control of its own future.
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Augar review clear on headlines but murky on detail
GuildHE’s Gordon McKenzie looks beneath the Augar report’s headline recommendations to interrogate its impact on small and specialist institutions.
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The cost of doing the right thing by part-time students
Gordon McKenzie of GuildHE and Gavan Conlon of London Economics cost the options for supporting part-time students.
With Gavan Conlon
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Does the post-18 review Augar well?
Gordon McKenzie of GuildHE shares five ways the post-18 review can Augar well.
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The industrial strategy highlights OfS’s contradictions
Gordon McKenzie of GuildHE examines some of the unanswered questions at the heart of the OfS and its relationship to the industrial strategy.
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The big Budget choices that the Chancellor faces
Gordon McKenzie, CEO of GuildHE and former civil servant remembers what Budget week is like inside a government department – and details the difficult conversations that the Chancellor will be having this week.
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The HE Bill is not dead and should not be killed off
The Chief Executive of Guild HE argues that the HE Bill is a matter of necessity for the higher education sector and can make it through Parliament before the burden of Brexit really begins.
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Quality assessment through the looking glass
Following HEFCE publishing its next steps for quality assessment, Gordon McKenzie looks at how far the new system aligns with the Government’s priorities for quality and regulation in HE.
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Beyond conspiracy: Why TEF plus fees may drive efficiency
The debate about the TEF’s impending link to fees has caused widespread debate in the sector, but what if this measure was interpreted differently – as a measure of inflation ? Gordon McKenzie wonders about the funding c
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Green Paper calls in the architects
With the Green Paper merging HE bodies and putting others at risk, Gordon McKenzie asks some important unanswered questions about how the architecture of the new system will come together, protecting the best elements of
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Is there any hope for part time HE?
As BIS release new research in to the state of part time higher education, Gordon McKenzie asks is there any hope?
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Removing the fuzzy edges from the TEF
The Chancellor has this week indicated that the coming TEF will be tied to an increase in fees – which has refocussed attention on the nascent policy and upped its stakes. Gordon McKenzie says its now time for the TEF to