The AoC College HE Research and Scholarship Conferences will be taking place in May 2020. The conferences will highlight scholarship and research in the college HE sector and aim to bring together researchers and teachers within college HE. There will also be an update on developments since the introduction of the Scholarship Framework. Anyone with an interest in college higher education is invited to attend.

The shift from the direct public funding of higher education to fee-based funding supported by student loans was supposed to put university finances on a stable footing and remove them from politics. John Holmwood, professor of sociology at the University of Nottingham and a co-founder of the Campaign for the Public University, argues that fee-based systems of higher education are in crisis.