Breathe – in four weeks the general election will be done and dusted, meanwhile we’ve listed the key information sources and looked at the education related pledges made so far. Of course, the HE sector has been busy too with research funding, postgraduate satisfaction, student accommodation, more free speech, value for money, and widening participation… Read more »
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This part of the blog features news and information about higher education policy and how BU’s research is influencing policy.
Growing wealth of migration publications at Bournemouth University
Yesterday saw the latest publication based on Bournemouth University (BU) migration research. The international journal BMC Public Health published our quantitative paper ‘Psychological morbidity in Nepali cross-border migrants in India: a community based cross-sectional study’ [1]. This scientific article highlights that since Nepali migrants can freely cross the border with India and hence work and stay there,… Read more »
What makes a Bournemouth University publication?
Last week the IOM (International Organization for Migration) in Nepal, the UN Migration Agency published a new report online: Research on the Health Vulnerabilities of the Cross-Border Migrants from Nepal. This report mentioned the input and advice of Bournemouth University (BU) staff, including Dr. Nirmal Aryal, who worked on the report prior to his appointment… Read more »
HE Policy Update for the w/e 1st November 2019
Temperatures are rising as election fever grips the politicians, there are reports on educational spending and OfS have more to say on unconditional offers. Parliament General Election It has been confirmed the general election will be held on 12 December. Parliament will dissolve on 6 November, with purdah commencing and full scale campaigning officially from… Read more »
HE Policy Update for the w/e 25th October 2019
Brexit So an extension (or flextension) to article 50 has been granted, no-one has died in a ditch and a general election has been called for 12th December. So now what? It is all up to the electorate. And 10 of the 21 Tory rebels have been reinstated and can stand as Conservative candidates in… Read more »
HE Policy Update for the w/e 18th October 2019
Nationally, of course, this week has been dominated by Brexit and the Queen’s Speech. The biggest HE story has been OfS’ launch of their Value for Money Strategy. We have missed out Brexit because it is dating too quickly and other sources are available! NSS – more change to come? The OfS have announced that… Read more »
HE Policy Update for the w/e 11th October 2019
Looking ahead, this week we have the Queen’s Speech and talks are continuing to see if there is any chance of a Brexit deal ahead of the Benn Act deadline. Parliament will sit next Saturday. The government is expected to lose the vote on the Queen’s Speech (apparently for the first time in 95 years)… Read more »
Invisible barriers to policy and media impact
Last week we shared a blog exploring academic engagement with the media. It can serve as a vehicle to raising professional visibility and contribute to the national expertise in the specialist research area. We recognised that a media presence can be both essential and daunting. This week Wonkhe have another interesting blog – Invisible barriers… Read more »
HE Policy update for the w/e 4th October 2019
A bit more politics than policy this week…a bit of a trend this year. SoS Education declares focus on FE and Technical Ed Wonkhe report on the Conservative Party conference and visualise the following amongst the HE the HE tea leaves: And what then for universities? Unlike Tory conferences of past years, the spotlight was… Read more »
Engaging with the media – scary or essential?
Wonkhe have an excellent new blog out: Why aren’t there more academic experts in the media? Written by Justin Shaw, a HE Consultant at Communications Management, it is part of his campaign to ensure the academic voice is heard. He would like to see a proliferation in colleagues sharing their evidence-based expertise both with policy… Read more »
HE Policy Update for the w/e 27th September 2019
What a week! Parliament is sitting (but not quietly) and there is lots of coverage from the Labour Party conference including the fringe events. Fresher loneliness Fresher loneliness: The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and Louise Knowles (Sheffield University) have spoken out on tackling loneliness during the first few weeks when starting university. For… Read more »
HE policy update for the w/e 20th September 2019
With Parliament suspended until 14th October (despite calls for a recall, pending the outcome of this week’s Supreme Court hearing on the lawfulness or otherwise of the prorogation), things are a little quieter in policy circles, although there is likely to be plenty of news from the Labour and Conservative party conferences over the next… Read more »
HE policy update for the w/e 13th September 2019
Parliament has been prorogued, but did not go quietly and next week will see two court cases on whether it was lawful or not heard together in the Supreme Court. There were cheers from the sector as Chris Skidmore returned to the University Minister role and Gavin Williamson as Education Secretary also seems to have… Read more »
HE policy update for the w/e 6th September 2019
The political to and fro this week has been whiplash-inducing and the Universities Minister job is vacant – again. Brexit & Parliament Unfortunately the Universities Minister job is beginning to resemble that of the Hogwarts Defence against the Dark Arts teacher – in a shock announcement on Thursday Jo Johnson resigned as Universities Minister and… Read more »
HE policy update for the w/e 23rd August 2019
A quieter week for HE policy, however, there’s news on the KEF and lots of other relevant content. STEM for Britain As a member of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee BU’s early career researchers and PhD and post-doc researchers all have the opportunity for exposure of their work through the annual poster competition. Posters are… Read more »
HE policy update for the w/e 16th August 2019
Welcome to a bumper update catching you on the last two weeks in policy land plus Sarah has taken a special in-depth look at post-qualification admissions as it is the hot topic of the week. Post-qualification Admissions Labour reinvigorated the post-qualification admissions debate on Wednesday when they declared they would reform the HE system and… Read more »
Emerald Literati Highly Commended award for BU paper
Former PhD student, Dr Andy Harding, now at Lancaster University, and BU Professors Jonathan Parker, Sarah Head and Ann Hemingway have been highly commended for their paper Supply-side review of the UK specialist housing market and why it is failing older people published in Housing, Care and Support. As a result, this paper has been made available… Read more »
HE policy update for the w/e 26th July 2019
The Policy Update will take a break for a few weeks followed by a bumper edition catching you up with the summer news. We realise that this is poor timing given everything that is happening but we offer you some great links to use instead: The Institute for Government live blog You can catch up… Read more »
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