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Higher education: students at the heart of the system

Higher education in the United Kingdom (UK) is a successful public-private partnership of government funding and in ... Show more
Higher education in the United Kingdom (UK) is a successful public-private partnership of government funding and institutional autonomy. This White Paper sets out the government's reforms for higher education with a view to tackling three challenges. The first is to shift public spending away from teaching grants and towards repayable tuition loans, to ensure that higher education receives the funding it needs even as substantial savings are made to public expenditure. The second is to ensure that higher education institutions (HEIs) deliver a better student experience; improving teaching, assessment, feedback and preparation for the world of work. The third challenge is to ensure that HEIs take more responsibility for increasing social mobility. The reforms are designed to deliver a more responsive higher education sector in which funding follows the decisions of learners and successful institutions are freed to thrive; in which there is a new focus on the student experience and the quality of teaching and in which further education colleges and other alternative providers are encouraged to offer a diverse range of higher education provision. The overall goal is higher education that is more responsive to student choice, that provides a better student experience and that helps improve social mobility.
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Corporate authors: Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)

Date: 2011

Geographic subjects: Great Britain; Europe

Resource type: Government report or paper

Subjects: Higher education; Governance; Students ... [+] Show more
Adult further education: outcome based success measures: experimental data 2010/11

This publication presents experimental outcome based measures covering the destinations (into employment and learni ... Show more
This publication presents experimental outcome based measures covering the destinations (into employment and learning) and progression of post-19 learners completing funded further education training in 2010 to 2011. The measures make use of administrative datasets already held by government to observe learning and employment activity in 2011 to 2012, and prior attainment of learners to measure progression.
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Corporate authors: Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)

Date: 2014

Geographic subjects: Great Britain; Europe

Resource type: Government report or paper

Subjects: Adult and community education; Higher education; Outcomes ... [+] Show more
Review of further education and sixth form college governance: report on findings and recommendations

The current policy context in the UK provides further education (FE) colleges with greater autonomy and freedom fro ... Show more
The current policy context in the UK provides further education (FE) colleges with greater autonomy and freedom from central government control. This in turn has reinforced the increasingly important role of college governors in setting the strategic direction of their institutions and the increased accountability to students, employers and their wider communities. The further education governance project was commissioned by the UK government to consider what more can be done to recognise, incentivise and reward good governance, to support improved standards in sixth form and further education colleges. The project focused on three key themes: (1) recruitment and succession planning, including the make-up of governing bodies; (2) recognising the status and importance of governors, including through non-financial incentives; and (3) remuneration for governors, taking account of current practice in other sectors and the Charity Commission's views. The report sets out a series of recommendations that seek to support stronger governance and improved standards.
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Corporate authors: Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)

Date: 2013

Geographic subjects: Great Britain; Europe

Resource type: Government report or paper

Subjects: Higher education; Governance; Quality ... [+] Show more
Higher ambitions: the future of universities in a knowledge economy

This document sets out the strategy for sustaining the strength of higher education in the UK in the current demand ... Show more
This document sets out the strategy for sustaining the strength of higher education in the UK in the current demanding and competitive environment. In a knowledge economy, universities are the most important mechanism we have for generating and preserving, disseminating, and transforming knowledge into wider social and economic benefits. They are crucial, too, as the providers of life chances for individuals in an environment where skills and the ability to apply those skills are essential preconditions for employment. The aim of these proposals set out here is to build a new national consensus between individuals, government, and employers as to how our higher education system should be supported, adapted and expanded. This can only be achieved through effective partnerships with universities themselves. Show less

Corporate authors: Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)

Date: 2009

Geographic subjects: Europe; Great Britain

Resource type: Government report or paper

Subjects: Higher education; Providers of education and training; Skills and knowledge
Further education workforce strategy: the government’s strategy to support workforce excellence in further education

This paper sets out the UK government’s strategy for supporting colleges and training providers to meet the staffin ... Show more
This paper sets out the UK government’s strategy for supporting colleges and training providers to meet the staffing challenges facing them. The main objective is to improve the quality of leadership, teaching and learning in further education so that more young people can reach their potential and more adults can leave further education with the skills they need to find work or progress in education and careers.
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Corporate authors: Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)

Date: 2014

Geographic subjects: Great Britain; Europe

Resource type: Government information

Subjects: Higher education; Vocational education and training; Workforce development ... [+] Show more
Evaluation of National Skills Academies

In 2008 the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) and Ipsos MORI were commissioned to conduct a two-year evaluatio ... Show more
In 2008 the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) and Ipsos MORI were commissioned to conduct a two-year evaluation of National Skills Academies (NSAs) by the former Learning and Skills Council (LSC), now the Skills Funding Agency. NSAs were first established from 2006 and have been rolled out incrementally over five rounds of development so far, under a competitive bidding process. NSAs were set up to be employer-led centres of excellence in learning and form part of successive government strategies to increase employer engagement with, and leadership in, vocational education and training, and improve the skills available in the working population. This report synthesises evidence gathered over both years of the evaluation across the following strands: a review of documentary evidence including NSA Business Plans, and 3-Year Reviews for the four Round 1 NSAs; three rounds of interviews with NSAs themselves; two rounds of interviews with NSA stakeholders (including major employers on NSA Boards and learning providers involved with NSAs); detailed case studies of NSA activity; qualitative research with employers involved with NSAs; and surveys of employers in NSA sectors and learners registered on NSA-endorsed courses. The report covers the first 10 NSAs to become operational: four approved in Round 1 (Construction, Financial Services, Food and Drink Manufacturing), four in Round 2 (Creative and Cultural Skills, Hospitality, Nuclear, Process Industries), and two from Round 3 (Retail and Sport and Active Leisure). The longest that any of the NSAs had been in operation by the end of the evaluation period was just over three years.
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Authors: Johnson, Claire; Hillage, Jim; Miller, Linda; Bellis, Anne ... [+] Show more

Corporate authors: Institute for Employment Studies (Great Britain) (IES) ... [+] Show more

Date: 2011

Geographic subjects: Great Britain; Europe

Resource type: Government report or paper

Series name: BIS research paper

Subjects: Industry; Skills and knowledge; Workforce development ... [+] Show more
Adult further education: outcome based success measures: experimental data 2010/11-2012/13

This publication presents experimental outcome based measures covering the destinations (into employment and learni ... Show more
This publication presents experimental outcome based measures covering the destinations (into employment and learning) and progression of post-19 learners. It covers learners completing funded further education training in 2010 to 2011, 2011 to 2012 and 2012 to 2013. The measures make use of datasets already held by government to observe learning and employment activity in the academic year after learners complete their training.
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Corporate authors: Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)

Date: 2015

Geographic subjects: Great Britain; Europe

Resource type: Government report or paper

Subjects: Adult and community education; Higher education; Outcomes ... [+] Show more
The Quality Assurance System for post-16 education and training provision: overarching framework

Delivering world-class skills and our commitment to raise the participation age requires all learning provision - f ... Show more
Delivering world-class skills and our commitment to raise the participation age requires all learning provision - for young people and for adults - to be of the highest quality. This document gives an overview of how the Quality Assurance System will work. The Quality Assurance System aims to: (1) Improve the quality of post-16 education and training consistently through robust self-evaluation and appropriate support and challenge; (2) Provide accurate and appropriate information about the quality and range of education and training provision, to enable learners and employers to make informed decisions about where and what they want to learn and to enable commissioners to fund provision that meets the needs of learners and employers; (3) Give learners and employers confidence that the programme they choose will be delivered to the highest possible standards; and (4) Assure those who pay for the learning that their investment is making a real difference and leading to a world-class education service.
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Corporate authors: Great Britain. Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) ... [+] Show more

Date: 2010

Geographic subjects: Great Britain; Europe

Resource type: Guide

Subjects: Quality; Providers of education and training; Teaching and learning ... [+] Show more
Exploring student demand for postgraduate study

This report brings together information on postgraduate applications to English higher education institutions (HEIs ... Show more
This report brings together information on postgraduate applications to English higher education institutions (HEIs) from the academic years 2005 to 2006 through to 2011 to 2012. HEIs provided data on postgraduate applications broken down by demographic factors, type and level of course studied, subject, domicile, previous HEI attended and offers. The report examines how student demand has changed and how it may have been affected by levels of student debt.
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Corporate authors: Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)

Date: 2013

Geographic subjects: England; Great Britain; Europe

Resource type: Government report or paper

Series name: BIS research paper

Subjects: Students; Demographics; Statistics ... [+] Show more
Evaluation of the 'New challenges, new chances' further education and skills reform plan

[This report] presents the findings from assessing of the early impact of 'New challenges, new chances further educ ... Show more
[This report] presents the findings from assessing of the early impact of 'New challenges, new chances further education and skills system reform plan: building a world class system', published in December 2011. The report set out what the UK government would financially support and the program of work to reform the further education (FE) and skills system for adults aged 19 and over in England. This evaluation assesses how far the reform program: (1) influenced the behaviour of FE and skills providers; and (2) changed the way that they work with government and its agencies. It also examines how the reforms affected: (1) increasing employer and learner investment in skills; and (2) creating a responsive and high-quality FE sector. Show less

Corporate authors: Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)

Date: 2013

Geographic subjects: Great Britain; Europe

Resource type: Government report or paper

Series name: BIS research paper

Subjects: Higher education; Evaluation; Governance ... [+] Show more