Articles tagged Higher Education

IPPR - An Avalanche is Coming: Higher Education and the Revolution Ahead

First published on Thu, April 18, 2013.

This report from IPPR sets out the challenges ahead for higher education. It argues that the purpose and provision of higher education will undergo radical transformation as the twin pressures of new technology and globalisation recalibrate the ways in which people access education. The report asks whether or not the...

Postgraduate Education: An Independent Inquiry by the Higher Education Commission

First published on Thu, November 15, 2012.

This report, the first since the Browne Review and the subsequent rise in undergraduate tuition fees, has taken oral and written evidence from all the groups who are associated with and have an interest in postgraduate education. The report argues that a ‘holistic vision for our education system’ needs to...

Restarting Britain: Design Education and Growth

First published on Thu, January 26, 2012.

The Design Commission, sponsored by CHEAD, The Design Council and Creative & Cultural Skills recently launched the report Restarting Britain in order to examine how design education could help act as a lever to economic growth. The report has four seperate recommendations: 'Government needs a national design strategy that it...

The Wilson Review of Business-University Collaboration

First published on Fri, November 18, 2011.

Following on from the HE white Paper, Sir Tim Wilson has launched a review of Business-University Collaboration. Following on from the HE white Paper, Sir Tim Wilson has launched a review of Business-University Collaboration.