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With the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, this era ended when polytechnics became "new universities", broadening their educational scope and conferring degrees in their own right. The University of Ulster was formed in 1984 from a merger between the New University of Ulster and the Ulster Polytechnic — the only such "trans binary merger ...
Jun 9, 2013 · So in 1992 the government turned the polytechnics into 'new universities'. Now almost half of school leavers go to university. The downside, according to the report, was that a "distinctive...
Formation. Following the 1992 Act, 33 polytechnics in England, the Derbyshire College of Higher Education, the Polytechnic of Wales and three Scottish central institutions were the first to be granted university status, alongside another trio of central institutions in the years following.
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Some things have got better. Universities have been enabled to cite metrics that are intended to reflect the quality of learning and teaching. These have become an important, albeit inevitably imperfect, means for students to make informed choices about where to study. We’re all suspicious of metrics, in particular when they result in league tables...
The story is less satisfactory on the inside. Creating a good learning and teaching environment for students is a time-consuming, resource-hungry, expert task. Every department has a set of academics who focus their time and effort in that direction. Some devote whole careers to doing so. But as a rule those are the workers who end up being valued ...
There is also an unchallenged, implicit reasoning that goes something like this. Academics should be experts in a field. To be an expert in a field you must have done empirical research in that field. Therefore, as a rule, being research active is more or less an essential feature of the best academic careers. The problem is, it’s simply not the ca...
A more capacious view of academic careers would be welcome and would benefit the sector. The ideas on “scholarship” set out by Boyer in 1990become relevant in this matter. “Discovery” (research) is one aspect of the kind of scholarship that we should be valuing in higher education. But there is a much wider range of activities that need doing acros...
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Apr 12, 2017 · The 'binary divide' between universities and polytechnics proved to be unsustainable, but the challenges it created are still with us today. Mike Ratcliffe evaluates the 1992 Act's background and legacy.
Jan 25, 2022 · The Further and Higher Education Act of 1992 eliminated the divide between polytechnics and universities, and in 1992, polytechnics acquired the university title and the power to award their own degrees, thus joining pre-1992 universities in a unified system.
However, by 2009, grade inflation at A-level was so widely recognised that a new grade – the A* – had to be introduced for the following academic year. Ironically, while fuelling their own grade inflation, universities were among those who called for overly high grades to be curbed in schools.
