New thinking, ideas & policy solutions for post-18 education in the UK
The cashpoint campus comeback – franchising, fraud, and the failure to learn from the FE experience
The cashpoint campus comeback – franchising, fraud, and the failure to learn from the FE experience
A policy paper on the chronic lack of institutional memory from regulators and government and the urgent need for cross-sector learning
25 June 2025
Tooling up: building a new economic mission for higher education
Tooling up: building a new economic mission for higher education
We argue for a fundamental shift in how the UK government conceptualises, regulates, and incentivises higher education to align it more closely with a new, proactive industrial strategy aimed at driving national economic growth and addressing regional inequalities
9 June 2025
Returning for its third year at The University of London, The Festival of Higher Education is taking place across 11-12 November 2025. The festival is always an opportunity to look beyond the narrow confines of higher education policymaking, that will be the case more than ever this year as we bring together the wider national conversation about the future of post-18 education in the UK.