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Weekly Digest 02/03/2023
NEWS Research The UK Committee on Research Integrity (UKCORI) has published its 2023-25 strategy and plan of forthcoming activities, including an annual statement on research integrity in the UK and a review of institutions’ research integrity statements. The Russell Group,...
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Research The broad framework within which the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) will work was published. During the passage of the ARIA bill, one of the major selling points of the new agency was that it is free of...
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You snooze, you (don't) lose
Research funding THE has an article detailing how reforms to REF are causing leading university departments to lose out on seven-figure sums, despite excelling in the latest assessment and Wonkhe has an article looking at the UKRI minimum stipend level...
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This week it's mostly about funding students and the sector
Student finance The Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill was introduced into the House of Commons this week. It allows the Secretary of state for Education to set fee limits at the resolution of an individual credit for a...
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Regulators The House of Commons Education Committee has been urged to hold an inquiry into the operation and performance of the Office for Students, to ensure that it is fulfilling its role and responsibilities within the sector as a fully...
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Weekly Digest 12/01/2023
Quality and regulation The Office for Students (OfS) has published the minutes for the October 2022 meeting of its student panel, a session which included discussion of changes to the NSS, OfS’ forthcoming prevalence survey into sexual misconduct within higher...
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Reflections and Resolutions
Reflections and Resolutions To wrap up the year THE published its “Faces of 2022” ; a list of academics and administrators at the heart of the sector’s biggest debates over the past year. Wonkhe has picked its out the key...
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Weekly Digest 01/12/2022
NEWS Industrial action National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) general secretary, Mick Lynch, joined university staff in a London rally on the third day of sector-wide strike action. Times Higher Education (THE) and the Guardian report on...
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Research funding and more
Westminster The Autumn statement saw better-than-expected news for universities with a re-commitment to the UK spending £20 billion on research by 2024. The Government press release was published a couple of days ago. Wonkhe explores other developments arising from the...
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Statements, speeches and scrutiny
Westminster The big news of the day is, of course, the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement. The BBC has been covering the story all day and has a summary of the headlines. Elsewhere in Westminster, the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill...
