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REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

SRHE

I took that to be mandatory, and it led to many staff being moved to ‘teaching only’ contracts. But… some institutions listed constraints to strategic delivery without saying what they had done to respond; some were poor on equity beyond gender and on support for PGRs and contract researchers. Keep your eyes open.

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Higher Ed Braces for Impact of Third-Party Service Regulation Expansion: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 149 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Mike Goldstein

The Change Leader, Inc.

The original rule was designed to monitor contracted companies that provide colleges and universities with services to manage various aspects of Federal Student Aid. It provides grants and loans to students. It’s not involved with the approval of institutions or the granting of degrees and other credentials.

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Debt and doubt: a graduate’s frustrations with the current higher education loans regime

SRHE

In 1962 a mandatory grant was introduced to pay for the education of ‘all those qualified by ability and attainment and who wished to do so’, in the words of the Robbins Report (1963). During my time as a PhD and Fellow, I was paid more per hour as head coach of the university swim team than I was to deliver seminars. [1]