Last week saw the launch of The Independent Review of Children\u2019s Social Care<\/a>, with a key mission statement to double the proportion of care leavers attending university by 2026. Currently only 12 percent of children who were in care progress into higher education, and those who do are less likely to attend a higher tariff institution, less likely to progress on to their second year of study, and less likely to finish their degree in three years. Wonkhe has an analysis of the recommendations<\/a>, which include making universities the \u2018corporate parent\u2019 of students who have experienced care and making \u201ccare leaver\u201d a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.<\/p>\n Advance HE has launched an independent consultation exploring the potential for a holistic approach to EDI in HE<\/a>.<\/p>\n OfS is recruiting for TEF panel members<\/a> and the Chair of the panel has been reflecting<\/a> on what made previous TEF panels successful and rewarding for those involved.<\/p>\n It has also appointed 10 independent members to its specialist provider panel<\/a>, to assess which universities and colleges are considered to be world-leading specialists in their fields of academia.<\/p>\n The next USS valuation \u2018could come sooner\u2019 than expected following improvements in the fund\u2019s financial position. THE has the details<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Home Office\u2019s new visa scheme for graduates<\/a> of the world\u2019s top-ranked universities is facing criticism<\/a> for unfairly favouring alumni from richer nations and undercutting the country\u2019s own international student strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EDI Last week saw the launch of The Independent Review of Children\u2019s Social Care, with a key mission statement to double the proportion of care leavers attending university by 2026. Currently only 12 percent of children who were in care...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/council-digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Office of Students<\/h3>\n
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