The PIE News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

India wants to internationalise its higher education system and tackle brain-drain, as set out in the 2020 National Education Policy , while foreign institutions are keen to capitalise on the growing demand from Indian students. The nature of the business entity will also determine how much tax they are liable to pay. “The

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HEPI

JULY 16, 2024

At a recent HEPI Partners’ dinner, Sir Anthony Seldon cited his new book coauthored with Tom Egerton ‘The Conservative Effect 2010-2014 – 14 Wasted Years?’ He provided some thoughts on what in higher education had changed for better or worse during this period. He writes here in a personal capacity.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 17, 2024

References Fukuyama, F (1995) Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity London: Hamish Hamilton Putnam, R (2000) Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community New York, NY: Simon and Schuster Shattock, M (2010) Managing Successful Universities (2nd ed.)

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The basic idea on fees and funding in the Dearing report of a fee that would not be differentiated by subject, for example, but which would cover one-quarter of the average cost of higher education tuition backed by an income-contingent loan has actually proved remarkably durable. Here we are, 25 years later, still talking about it.

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HEPI

JANUARY 31, 2024

At least, that is what David Cameron did before 2010 and Keir Starmer has done more recently. Nick Clegg tried to backtrack before the 2010 election too , but Liberal Democrat members were not having it. He then, oddly, put a policy he apparently didn’t agree with at the heart of his election campaign.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

Stakeholders in UK higher education are exploring a range of potential funding models for undergraduate education, against a backdrop of financial sustainability concerns, course cuts and redundancies for higher education institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Janelle Scott, a professor in the School of Education and African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. and Mary Catherine Birgeneau Distinguished Chair in Educational Disparities, and is the chair of the Race, Diversity, and Educational Policy Cluster of the Othering and Belonging Institute.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Gross Enrolment Ratio The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) measures the capacity of a country to educate people in a particular age group – a key measure of access to education used by the UN and others. In 2020, India had a Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) at tertiary education level of 29.4%, compared to 26.8% in 2015 or 17.8%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Multicultural gifted education (2nd ed.). Banks - The father of multicultural education: In these troubling anti-EDI times. Journal of Education Policy, 25 (2), 253-276. The racial nexus between social disaster, housing wealth, and public policy. Reversing underachievement among gifted Black students (2nd ed.).

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HEPI

AUGUST 26, 2024

It’s taken me almost 20 years but, over the summer, I eventually got around to reading a book I’ve been wanting to read on higher education policy since I started working in the area over 15 years ago: University to Uni – The Politics of Higher Education since 1944 by Robert Stevens.

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SRHE

MARCH 7, 2025

Educators across schools and departments in HEIs are attempting to resist the current educational practice which promotes students as consumers and centres our students as active producers in their own learning. What if we as educators fail at a task and our students see?

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HEPI

APRIL 15, 2024

In reality, perhaps it was Thatcherism that secured the NHS – just as the NHS was also treated more positively than other areas during the post-2010 austerity, when it was protected against cuts, and also during the pandemic via massive increases in spending and borrowing. That question is today faced by higher education policy wonks too.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. Santiago and Sarita E.

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SRHE

AUGUST 6, 2024

Having been Britain’s youngest MP at 26 when elected in 2010, he lost his very marginal seat in 2017, becoming at 36 the youngest male member of the House of Lords. He was ennobled in Boris Johnson’s 2020 Dissolution Honours, an honour said to be for running Johnson’s campaign to become Conservative Party leader. Student numbers are unknown.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has 20 years’ experience in education policy research. The Labour Party is ahead in the polls and has been since December 2021. We all remember how that went.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book brings together 55 different authors – including academics, a vice-chancellor and numerous education policy experts (such as Sam Freedman, Lord Lucas, Jonathan Simons , Ann Mroz and Tom Richmond). 511-531 The post Just what is the state of private education in 2023? By Nick Hillman appeared first on HEPI.

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HEPI

JULY 28, 2023

The speech looks at the state of higher education in summer 2023 and ahead to the next general election, due in 2024 (or, less likely, 2025). First, despite working in higher education policy for well over 15 years and despite having visited nearly every UK university, I have never visited the University of Wolverhampton before.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As for Labour, their Education pledges look set to focus on early years provision (again, perhaps framed as a productivity issue), and promises on training nurses and doctors. The party’s higher education policies, however, seem to be still forming – and along familiar lines. appeared first on HEPI.

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HEPI

APRIL 12, 2025

[i] Since the early nineteenth century, changes in government policy, alongside growth in the number of universities and students, have meant higher education in England has taken on more of the characteristics of a market. 10 [link] [xx] Harriet Coombs, First-in-Family Students, Higher Education Policy Institute, January 2022, p.40

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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The Institute for Higher Education Policy. The most important door that will ever open: Realizing the mission of higher education through equitable admission policies. The Institute for Higher Education Policy. Race and ethnicity in higher education: A status report. American Council on Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. In 2023, over half (56%) of the students were Latino, compared to 36% in 2010.

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

There is plenty of uncertainty to factor in, though, as Nick Hillman (Director, The Higher Education Policy Institute ) put it in a 5 July 2016 speech to the University of Nottingham’s executive board: No one knows what is going to happen for certain, so we can argue and act in favour of the future we desire.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

The full text of what Baker said that day has generally been very hard to get hold of, though I am pleased to say you can find it on the HEPI website along with other hard-to-find and important historical documents on higher education policy.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Of particular interest to the research team were the potential injustices faced by this group, Underpinned by a theoretical framework drawing on Nancy Fraser’s (1997) and Kathleen Lynch’s ( 2010 ) multi-level theories of social justice, we explored the economic (distributive), cultural (recognitional), political (representational) and affective in/justices (..)

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2025

In 2006 and 2007, Claire was a visiting scholar successively at the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University, and the Graduate School of Education at Harvard, and was also a Fulbright New Century Scholar in 2007/08, forging productive research collaborations in the United States that continued throughout her career.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

Nicole Lynn Lewis, Founder and CEO of Generation Hope said that when she founded the organization in 2010, she knew that the mission was bold and ambitious. “At In a keynote speech at the conference, he lauded the organization’s two-generation approach and their focus on equity as much needed ingredients for change. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

” CECU specifically highlighted a 2010 report from the Government Accountability Office, which said that undercover testing by the GAO found that for-profit colleges encouraged fraud and engaged in deceptive marketing practices. The department’s decision to use secret shoppers is “four decades overdue,” he said.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

SRHE News is now 50 issues old, covering a momentous 12 years for higher education worldwide, but especially in the UK, and even more especially in England – an opportunity to reflect on what we thought and how we felt as it happened, and whether things seem different now. No 46 English higher education policy: hope and pay ).

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Martin Williams is Chair of the University of Cumbria and a former higher education policy official in the Department for Education. This limited an individual institutions room to grow. It also limited the number of new institutions that would be accommodated in the whole HE system.

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HEPI

JULY 31, 2023

In the spring of 2002 I approached Sir Howard Newby, recently appointed Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), where I had been Policy Director for more than 10 years, with the proposition that HEFCE might support me in establishing a think tank devoted to higher education policy analysis.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Since the Browne Report (2010) normalised the payment by students of increased fees for undergraduate programmes, universities have faced a balancing act between two separate imperatives that have influenced the relationship between students and universities. OfS, 2022a). References.

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HEPI

APRIL 14, 2024

Viv Stern (Chief Executive of Universities UK) Tony Bruce was Policy Director of what was then the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals (CVCP) from April 1993 to 2010, by which time it had merged with the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics (CDP) and become Universities UK (UUK). We are honoured to have known him.

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SRHE

JANUARY 17, 2024

I contributed to two presentations at SRHE 2023 which both involved an analysis of narratives – the first being political party manifestoes from 1945 to 2019 and the second an analysis of Knowledge Exchange Framework policy. We observed spikes in frequency of ‘higher education’ and ‘university’ in 1966, 1987, 2001 and 2010.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2025

According to Robert Maxim, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, Native American student enrollment has dropped by 40% since the 2010-2011 school year. The statistic highlights the urgency needed in addressing the educational crisis for Native communities.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In 2022, our group received an SRHE Scoping Award to synthesise the literature on the development, teaching, and assessment of sustainability literacy in non-STEM higher education programmes. Out of 6,161 articles that we identified as potentially relevant, 92 studies met the inclusion criteria and are reviewed in the report.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

To conclude, our study notes that institutional isomorphism is a global phenomenon, with similar trends observed in countries such as China, the US, and Australia (see Bae, Grimm, and Kim, 2023 ; Bk, Atakan-Duman, and Paamehmetolu, 2017 ; Hartley and Morphew, 2008 ; Saichaie and Morphew, 2014 ; Taylor and Morphew, 2010 ).

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

Theres no one-size-fits-all path to (or through) college and we need to plan our education policies accordingly, the foundation states. In his research, Carleton College economics professor Nathan Grawe argues that the financial crisis of 2008 will lead to a major tsunami for higher education in 2026.

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