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Weekend Reading: Imperfect information in higher education

HEPI

In this weekend long read, he discusses the history of marketisation in higher education and considers whether applicants have enough information to make informed judgements about where and what they study. Some 40% of undergraduate students might have chosen a different route, although only 6% would not have entered higher education.

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Key trends in Latin American higher education: private institutions, diversity, and online learning

SRHE

by Maria-Ligia Barbosa In Latin America, higher education has undergone intense transformation. million in 1990, 25 million students in 2011, and 30 million in 2019. In Argentina and Uruguay, the demand for higher education was met by the public sector. million, reaching 8.4

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New Government, familiar problems – By Chris Husbands

HEPI

On Friday, Times Higher Education ran the thoughts of Nick Hillman, HEPI’s Director, on what the geography of Whitehall might mean for higher education at the spending review and, over the weekend, Bright Blue ran Nick Hillman’s latest article on student migration. Policy direction appears to be unclear.

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Second-generation student borrowers

SRHE

by Ariane de Gayardon Since the 1980s, massification, policy shifts, and changing ideas about who benefits from higher education have led to the expansion of national student loan schemes globally. Their parents took out student loans to pay for their own higher education.

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Phil Hill and the Unintended Consequences of Online Education Policy

Helix Education

Phil Hill : Several of the headwinds are outside the control of higher education institutions. The final challenge may be that higher education is not the only game in town anymore. There was incredible pushback from the higher education community. SJ: Let’s talk about the headwinds.

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Passionate pleas for and against tuition-sharing agreements

Inside Higher Ed

The Education Department announced last month that it would revisit nearly three decades of policy making under Title IV of the Higher Education Act that has largely restricted colleges from paying recruiters based on how many students they enroll.

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Germany: international first-years fill demographic decline

The PIE News

The CHE Center for University Development found that preliminary figures from the Federal Statistical Office say 402,617 students enrolled at German universities for the first time in the 2023/24 winter semester, down from a peak of 445,000 in 2011/12. The development of total first-year students at German universities since the 2011/12 peak.

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