RAB – or the wizarding world of student finance?

Regulus Arcturus Black (1961 – 1979), also known as R.A.B., was a pure-blood wizard, born to Orion and Walburga Black, and attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1972 apparently. Now I haven’t got the first idea what any of that means – which at least...
BIS Grant Letter to HEFCE

BIS Grant Letter to HEFCE

The BIS Grant Letter confirming government funding for higher education in England for 2014-15 can be read on the HEFCE website.   Andy Westwood’s blog on the BIS Grant Letter to HEFCE and the SFA’s Skills Funding Statement is published on...
BIS Grant Letter to HEFCE

A Student Premium?

Which gives disadvantaged young (or older) people the better chance of wanting to do a degree and actually getting one – George Osborne’s commitment to taking the cap off full time undergraduate numbers in the Autumn Statement? Or the £330m Student Opportunity (SO)...
New FE colleges? Or a new policy for FE colleges?

New FE colleges? Or a new policy for FE colleges?

Today’s headlines contain a catchy claim from BIS and from Matthew Hancock that the Government is opening a new FE college to help train the workers who will build HS2. According to the story, it’s the first new FE college for twenty years. The college, to...