SRHE Newsletter

Published by: SRHE In house publications
Frequency: Four issues per year

SRHE Newsletter

This is the newsletter of SRHE. The SRHE Newsletter includes contributions from members across the globe, details of upcoming events and reports on recent activities.

The latest SRHE Newsletter can be downloaded from the followin link SRHE News 14 (October 2013).

Previous issues of SRHE News are available to SRHE members only via the following link Members Area.

For further enquiries, or to submit any articles of interest, please contact the editor at rob.cuthbert@uwe.ac.uk

Out Now - SRHE News Issue 14 - October 2013

Extract from editorial

Degrees of Freedom

Press freedom has been a hot political topic in the UK over the last year, after the Leveson inquiry issued the first part of its report in November 2012 on ‘Culture, Practice and Ethics of the Press’, which proposed a form of statutory regulation. The press reacted with horror and outrage, arguing the need for press freedom as an essential part of democratic society. .

Rob Behrens, drawing on his experience as the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education had a rather different reaction, set out in HEPI Occasional Report 7,‘Three Cheers for Lord Leveson: independent self-regulation, newspapers and universities compared.’

Can higher education learn from this?

Higher Education Empirical Research (HEER) Database (QAA)

The Higher Education Empirical Research (HEER) database comprises summaries of the latest published research on a range of topics related to higher education. It is intended for use by policy-makers, academics and researchers in higher education. The database is fully searchable by theme, publisher and date. As a registered user you gain access to the full summaries and subscription options to receive email notifications as soon as new research is added to the database.

Further details are available here HEER Database.

Higher Education Statistics Agency 2011-12 Data

Below are links to HESA datasets provided to SRHE in February 2013 and later in May 2013. This data in relation to UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) is broken down by age group, gender, ethnicity, disability status, level of study, mode of study, etc. We hope they will be useful to any of members and guests currently engaged in research.