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Implications of the HE White Paper: Policy and Strategy for Languages

Implications of the HE White Paper: Policy and Strategy for Languages. HEFCE overview by John Selby, HEFCE Regional Consultant for the West Midlands Presentation to the Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies Subject Centre conference on 21 May 2003. Chapter headings in the White Paper.

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Implications of the HE White Paper: Policy and Strategy for Languages

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  1. Implications of the HE White Paper: Policy and Strategy for Languages HEFCE overview by John Selby, HEFCE Regional Consultant for the West Midlands Presentation to the Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies Subject Centre conference on 21 May 2003

  2. Chapter headings in the White Paper • The need for reform • Research excellence • HE and business • Teaching and learning • Expanding higher education • Fair access • Freedoms and funding

  3. Research excellence • Increase spending on research by 30% in real terms by 2005–06 • Increase concentration • Increase collaboration • Support emerging and improving research • Support and reward talented researchers • Create a new Arts and Humanities Research Council.

  4. HE and business • Strengthen HE Innovation Fund (HEIF) • worth £90m a year in 2005–06 • Focus on less research intensive HEIs • A network of 20 Knowledge Exchanges • Strong partnerships between HEIs and RDAs • RDAs increasing role allocating HEIF • Stronger alliances between SSCs and HE.

  5. Learning and teaching excellence • Additional funding for: • pay modernisation • rewarding good teaching and • more fellowships for the best • 70 Centres of Excellence • Annual student survey • Public summaries of external examiners’ reports • Teaching Quality Academy • HESDA, ILT & LTSN

  6. Expanding higher education • Increase participation towards 50 per cent • Foundation degrees • Employer involvement • Better FE/HE links • Better progression pathways • More flexible courses • Diverse student body • Improve support for part-time students

  7. Fair access • Grants for lower income students • Abolishing up-front fees for all • Access Agreements • Access Regulator (now OFFA) • Expanding AimHigher (EC and P4P) • HEI funding to support access and retention • Extra money to help vulnerable students • Grants for part-time students.

  8. Freedoms and funding • Grants for lower-income students from 2004 • Fees between £0 and £3000 from 2006 • Graduate Contribution Scheme from 2006 • State contribution for lower income students • Abolish up-front fees from 2006 • Loans threshold raised to £15k from 2005 • Encourage HEI endowment funds

  9. HEFCE strategic plan (2003-08) [draft] • 4 core strategic aims • WP and fair access • Excellence in Learning and teaching • Excellence in research • Enhancing contribution of HE to economy and society • 3 cross-cutting supporting aims • Building on institutions’ strengths • Developing leadership, governance and management • Excellence in delivery

  10. Chapter headings in the White Paper • The need for reform • Research excellence • HE and business - exchanging and developing knowledge and skills • Teaching and learning - delivering excellence • Expanding higher education • Fair access • Freedoms and funding

  11. Key underlying themes • Institutional diversity • Playing to institutional strength • Meeting local, regional and national needs • Collaboration between HEIs • In research, teaching and third stream activity • More reaching out • Collaboration with FE & schools • Collaboration with business and community (RDAs) • More diverse student body • More diverse course provision

  12. Implications for HE “LLAS” communities • More collaboration • Aim for more diverse student body • More outreach • AimHigher: Partnerships for progression • More diverse provision • Foundation degrees • Part-time, mixed mode, e-learning

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