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Navigating Higher Education Changes: The Role of Accreditation and Funding

Explore the evolving landscape of higher education with insights on accreditation, funding changes, and student-centric initiatives. Get informed about key themes driving teaching excellence, social mobility, and regulatory frameworks for all providers.

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Navigating Higher Education Changes: The Role of Accreditation and Funding

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  1. Welcome slide

  2. The KIS and accreditation Paul Hazell 16 December 2011

  3. New world: Funding changes are radical and rapid • The Independent Review of Higher Education and Student Finance (report on 12 October) www.independent.gov.uk/browne-report • the coalition Government’s first • spending review • http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/spendindex.htm

  4. CONTEXT Students at the heart of the system • Key themes • well-informed students driving teaching excellence • a better student experience and better qualified graduates • improved social mobility through fairer access • a new, fit-for-purpose regulatory framework – including a ‘level playing field’ for all providers.

  5. Prospective students • What do they want to know? • Satisfaction • Employment • Costs and support

  6. Features • One KIS for every under-graduate course (a course being something a student applies to) • Most HE courses longer than one year FTE • Published via institution’s websites and accessible via UCAS • Assurance of public information part of QA review from 12-13

  7. Employability in the KIS • Salary data • Professional and industrial accreditation • Job quality

  8. Accreditation • Build on HEBRG’s work and research • HEPISG have ultimate authority • Process to manage this bit of the KIS • Very tight timescales

  9. An agenda growing in importance • Livingstone Hope review of video games • Chancellor’s autumn statement • Wilson review

  10. Hot off the press • Yesterday, additional details published. Review process and approach in 2015 • Omissions we are considering. • Communicating this - who should we be talking to? • Your thoughts and questions. Anything we have missed?

  11. Thank you for listening p.hazell@hefce.ac.uk

  12. How to find out more e-mail hefce@hefce.ac.uk Twitter http://twitter.com/hefce web-site www.hefce.ac.uk admin-hefce e-mail distribution list HEFCE update, our monthly e-newsletter

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