What’s Inside January 2012 : •
Articles on higher education reform
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Access to Education
JOURNAL ARTICLES: ACCESS TO EDUCATION . National Audit Office (2011). Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Reducing Bureaucracy in Further Education in England. (HC 1590 Session 2010–2012). http://www.nao.org.uk//idoc.ashx?docI d=ecb92a37-ef54-4c4d-a1303666e9cff839&version=-1
JOURNAL ARTICLES: HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING Higher education funding Berry, K. and Georghiou, N. (2011). Higher Education: Tuition Fees and the 'Funding Gap'. (SPICe Briefing 11/89). Edinburgh: SPICe [online]. Available: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Rese archBriefingsAndFactsheets/SB_1189.pdf Scottish Parliament fact sheet includes Scotland and the rest of the UK Government funding for university teaching and research to fall to lowest proportion in over a century, http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articl eid=5858 University and College Union.
S TA TI S TI CS Higher Education Statistics Agency – http://www.hesa.ac.uk/content/vie w/2368/393/ latest release on staff in employment in Uk universities.
JOURNAL ARTICLES: HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM
New video criticises HE reforms (via Times Higher Education website). http://www.timeshighereducation.c o.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&stor ycode=418693&c=1
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is produced by Martin McQuillan, professor of literary theory and cultural analysis and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, and Joanna Callaghan, lecturer in media, art and design at the University of Bedfordshire. Higher Education Statistics Agency latest release on staff in employment in Uk universities.
JOURNAL ARTICLES: ONLINE LEARNING Learning freedom and the web by Anya Kamenetz and the participants of the 2010 Mozilla Festival. Download the free ebook. http://learningfreedomandtheweb.o rg/
Compiled by Heather Dawson h.dawson@lse.ac.uk