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All a matter of context

by Derfel Owen February 4, 2011

I interviewed Professor Steven Schwartz for the QAA podcast series this week (you can listen here ). We roamed around a number of issues and topics including his very influential report into higher education admissions in 2004 and he touched on an important issue that has reared it’s head again – information for students. He [...]

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Watch out for generation Y

by Derfel Owen February 1, 2011

Big changes are about to take place in UK higher education in response to the government’s plans to reform higher education funding, shifting the cost from government grants to student fees. Universities and agencies like QAA are thinking very seriously about how this will affect our relationship with students.

There is another challenge emerging though that I believe will have an equally profound effect on higher education, as well as providing great opportunities, and that is the arrival of Generation Y.

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