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Higher education handbook

Higher Education

Higher education handbook

The higher education system is complex and rapidly changing, and so NUS has produced a handbook to explain how the system works. The newly updated Higher Education Handbook is a useful resource for your students’ union officers.

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The handbook covers the following areas:

Funding, structures and frameworks

  • government and higher education
  • The funding of higher education
  • Higher education governance
  • Qualifications framework
  • The Bologna process

Rights, representation and quality

  • Quality assurance
  • Student feedback
  • Academic appeals
  • Student complaints

Access, admissions, and higher education in further education

  • Admissions
  • Widening participation
  • Higher education in further education
  • Socrates and Erasmus

Higher education organisations

  • NUS and students’ unions
  • Trade unions in universities and colleges
  • Other HE organisations
  • Mission groups