On grounds of equity, social cohesion and economic performance we believe that the UK must help everyone to aspire and realise their potential. We appreciate and have articulated the business benefits of diversity. We appreciate that higher education institutions and schools have to work together to raise aspirations, support a closer alignment of the funding packages for part-time and full-time students and want employers to show by their recruitment policies and practices that they value graduates from all backgrounds and institutions.
An organisation’s core values and ethics should underpin everything it does. This applies to higher education institutions as much as to any other organisation: how it markets itself in the UK and overseas; how it deals with its students, clients and its research; how it tackles conflicts of interests etc.
Hence our annual consultation at St George’s House, Windsor Castle, in partnership with the SRHE focuses on aspects related to the broader social, civil and leadership role our universities have in supporting and encouraging social well-being, widening access and promoting the values of the higher education system.
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Publications
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A Memorandum for the DIUS Select Committee On the Student Experience
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Ethics Matters: Managing Ethical Issues in Higher Education
This is a practical guide designed to help UK universities and colleges address ethical issues across their organisations. It sets out to raise questions, encourage debate and make suggestions on how higher education institutions might develop their own approach to ethical matters.
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Ethics and the University
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Higher Education and the Public Good
This is a summary of a consultation held at St George's House, Windsor Castle in March 2004. The consultation addressed the university's role in terms of public good as well as the broader terms of engagement for universities both individually and collectively in the current age.
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Diversity and Co-operation in Higher Education
This publication offers suggestions on how partnerships might improve both the effectiveness and efficiency of HE institutions focusing on what they do best whilst at the same time preserving and even enhancing diversity and customer choice.
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Recruiting from a Wider Spectrum of Graduates
By Kate Purcell, Marie Morley and Gill Rowley. Report for Employers. It identifies good employer practice in recruiting graduates from non-traditional backgrounds (lower social groups and older ages). It includes Guidelines for good practice which have been developed with the EOC and other organisations.
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Funding Widening Participation in Higher Education: a discussion paper
By Wendy Piatt (IPPR) and Richard A Brown. This report offers a framework for change that proposes a further transfer of available public funds from relatively well off students and institutions towards those for whom a lack of finance is a real deterrent to participation.
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Diversity and Excellence: A Contribution to the Debate
By Lady Perry of Southwark President, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
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Graduate Opportunities, Social Class and Age
By Kate Purcell and Terence Hogarth. There are clear indications from this research that people from lower social groups are disadvantaged in entering and succeeding in higher education and employment. The message for universities and employers is that there is a common interest in recognising this and in working together to ensure there are more even opportunities for everyone. Individual potential wherever it exists needs to be developed for the good of society and the economic future of the country, as well as for the benefit of individuals and organisations. Best practice needs to be disseminated and harnessed and messages on the value of all individuals spread throughout the learning and employment chain.
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Class and Higher Education: The participation of young people from lower social groups
By Hilary Metcalf of Policy Studies Institute (PSI) with CIHE. This report is a systematic attempt to pull together and analyse information on the participation in higher education of young people from lower social groups. It reveals the wide disparities by social groups that currently exist and hence the waste of individual potential. This in turn reduces the competitiveness, wealth and job creating potential of the United Kingdom and also threatens social cohesion. As such it is an issue which must be owned and addressed by all of us - the Government, employers, employer organisations, and further and higher education.
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Widening Participation in Lifelong Learning: A Progress Report
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Submissions
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Funding for widening participation in higher education
CIHE's response to HEFCE consultation document 02/22
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Additional Resources
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A Good Practice Guide on Student Mobility
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Ethical Issues in Higher Education
Conference invitation
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National Conference: Ethical Issues in Higher Education
Conference summary
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