DipityA report by Kent University published last week found that one third of graduates from the of 2003 earn no extra money as a result of their qualification. The degree system has been called "rotten"...
Beyond the honours degree classification. 'recommends that the Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR) should become the main vehicle for measuring and recording a student's achievement. The re...
The Review sets out a compelling vision for the UK. It shows that the UK must urgently raise achievements at all levels of skills and recommends that it commit to becoming a world leader in skills ...
Over the next five years, the Government will be working with professionals in schools, colleges and partner organisations to transform our education system into one of the world’s best. The 2005 ...
The Higher Education Act 2004 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which introduced several changes to the higher education system in the United Kingdom, the most important and controv...
Secretary of State for Education and Skills Charles Clarke requested Professor Steven Schwartz, Vice-Chancellor of Brunel University, to conduct an independent review of the options which English i...
The Lambert Review of Business-University Collaboration was a report published by HM Treasury in the UK in 2003, which made “a series of recommendations aimed at smoothing out the path between Brit...
1999 manifesto, pledged that by 2010, 50 per cent of Blair manifesto pledge under-30s would have gone through higher education.
The 1988 Education Reform Act, which abolished the University Grants Committee and created the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council and the Universities Funding Council (now the Higher Educati...
...concluded that the free provision of higher education should end. Maintenance grants were scrapped and students were charged £1,000 per term for tuition fees. From 2006, students were expected t...
The Robertson Report recommended more widespread adoption of modularity and credit transfer schemes. Reference: Higher Education Quality Council. Choosing to change: extending access, choice and mo...
Established the future strategy for publicly funded research and pushes for links with industry and other non-academic users.
The Follett Report reviewed library provision across the higher education section. Reference: Joint Funding Councils' Libraries Review Group. Report. Bristol, 1993.
The Flowers' Report considered questions of semesterisation and the possibility of a three semester academic year. Reference: Committee of Enquiry into the Organisation of the Academic Year. The re...
The 1992 Further and Higher Education Act which created the higher education funding councils, and granted university status to the polytechnics. References: Education Reform Act, London, HMSO, 198...
Sets out the audit procedures for quality assurance and the new government agency, and recommended that new funding councils should be given the responsibility of ensuring the quality of teaching a...
Some point the finger at John Major. Shortly after he became Prime Minister, he sent a note round the Department of Education: Major wanted suggestions for a policy that would be both popular and c...
Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) introduced the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Registry brought about work-based learning for academic credit. The principle on which the framework was...
The Reynolds' Report, in the pre-1992 university sector, laid down guidelines on good practice relating to quality assurance in universities. Reference: Academic Standards Group. Academic standards...
The Jarratt Report, a response to the growing need for universities to provide evidence of efficiency and accountability for public funds, impacted widely on the management of universities after it...
The Robbins Report set the tone for the expansion of higher education from the 1960's, outlining the principle that higher education should be available for all who would be able to benefit from it...
The Education Act of 1962 awarded maintenance grants to students in most full-time courses.
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