This is a collection of stuff related to the Green paper, grouped into: Political economics; Sector responses; HE marketisation; Teaching excellence; Learning gain; HE governance; Quality Assurance/regulation; and Research. It is not exhaustive and I probably won’t add to it.
NOTE: I’m painfully aware of the limited range of voices in the list below, and its apparent lack of diversity, including historically under-represented and underserved communities. Is this me? Is this us? What does this mean?
ONE. Political Economics and Policy
HEFCE: Financial health of the higher education sector, 2014-15 to 2017-18 forecasts
Jo Johnson: Higher education: fulfilling our potential
Paul Clark: The Green Paper needs big data
Hepi: 10 points about the higher education green paper
Mark Leach: Spending review 2015: Key points for universities
Andrew McGettigan: The Treasury View of HE (variable human capital)
Andrew McGettigan: Spending Review: Loans, RAB and the Discount Rate
UCU: HE Green Paper
Andy Westwood: Spending Review 2015: In the Bleak Midwinter?
DBIS (2013): International education strategy: global growth and prosperity
DBIS (2014): Estimating Innovation Spillovers: an International Sectoral and UK Enterprise Study
TWO. Sector responses
GuildHE: GuildHE response to HE Green Paper
Million+: million+ comment on HE Green Paper (England)
NUS responds to higher education green paper
Russell Group: Higher Education Green Paper
University Alliance: University Alliance responds to the HE Green Paper
UniversitiesUK: A summary of the Higher Education Green Paper
UCAS’ response to HE Green Paper
THREE. HE marketisation
Myka Abramson and Harry Stopes: Academics! You’ve got to fight for your right to job security
Emma Clery: Tuition Fees: 10 Reasons Against
Paul Goodman: Jo Johnson wants the higher education market to work better. Here’s a way of ensuring that it does.
John Holmwood: Slouching toward the Market: the new Green Paper for Higher Education, Part I
John Holmwood: Slouching toward the Market: the new Green Paper for Higher Education, Part II
Mark Leach: Green Paper: the closer you look, the less you see
Andrew McGettigan: 10 things you might have missed about the HE Green Paper
Andrew McGettigan: The accelerated level playing field
John Morgan: Higher education Green Paper: government support for higher, variable fees ‘crystal clear’
Chris Newfield: Are UK universities being cast academically adrift?
Sorana Vieru: We’ve got the power! No, you’ve got the power. Hang on, who’s got the power?
UCU: UCU tells MPs that job security is vital for teaching quality
FOUR. Teaching excellence
Business, Innovation and Skills Q&A on the TEF (1/12/15)
Richard Black: Higher education Green Paper: have universities really neglected teaching?
Simon Clark: Refocusing universities on teaching won’t be easy
Martin Eve: What TEF is really for
Fighting Against Casualisation in Education: Responding to the select committee on TEF
Richard Hall: against teaching intensity
Richard Hall: notes on saying no to the TEF
Chris Havergal: TEF metrics plan attacked by academics
Chris Havergal: ‘Naive’ TEF metrics could undermine widening participation, v-c warns
David Kernohan: CETLs and the ghosts of teaching excellence past
David Kernohan: People in higher education: Professor Sally Brown, teaching excellence and a little bit of history
Mark Leach: The incredible machine? Our visual guide to the TEF
Andrew McGettigan: TEF & fee increases
Martin McQuillan: Remember, Remember the TEF of November
Emran Mian: Can the TEF survive the arguments made against it?
Jess Patterson: 5 Reasons the Teaching in Excellence Framework is Bad News for Higher Education
Philip Plowden: How to approach the Teaching Excellence Framework with confidence
Warwick for Free Education: The TEF: what is it, and why should we oppose it?
Joanna Williams: Higher education Green Paper: what it means for teaching
FIVE. Learning gain
Richard Hall: learning gain and kettling academic labour
HEFCE: 4 million awarded to 12 projects to pilot measures of learning gain
Cecile Hoareau McGrath et al. Learning Gain in Higher Education
Karine Tremblay et al.: Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes Feasibility Study Report Volume 1 – Design and Implementation
SIX. HE governance
Simon Baker: Redbricks, Green and Browne
Ed Byrne: Sector needs ‘oversight’ if BIS takes teaching grant in-house, says King’s principal
Udi Datta: TTIP and higher education policy
DBIS: Degree-awarding powers and criteria for university title
Martin Eve: Jo Johnson: your proposals for British higher education will not yield the competitiveness you seek
Martin Eve: HE Green Paper: response to question 23
David Kernohan: The Green Paper and devolution
Andrew McGettigan: The Great University Gamble
Martin McQuillan: ‘Goodbye to all that’
John Morgan: Pro-market regulator will have ‘different relationship with sector’
SEVEN. Quality Assurance/regulation
Andrew Boggs: Green Paper: six questions about regulation
HEFCE: Quality Assurance Review
Lee Jones: ‘Quality Assessment’ and Completing the Market in UK Higher Education
Lee Jones: ‘Quality Assessment’ and ‘Student Outcomes’: An Open Letter
Gordon McKenzie: Green Paper calls in the architects
Quality Assessment Review Steering Group: The future of quality assessment in higher education
EIGHT. Research
Martin Eve: TEF, REF, QR, deregulation: thoughts on Jo Johnson’s HE talk
Martin Eve: BIS, metrics and non-selective QR allocation
David Matthews: Higher education Green Paper: what it means for research
James Wilsdon et al.: The Metric Tide: Report of the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management
James Wilsdon: The Green Paper: Nurse will see you now
James Wilsdon: Nurse’s watery prescription for research