The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The WUN , which the University of Rochester has been an active member of since 2012, is a consortium comprising 24 global universities from 6 continents. Such engagement will not only bring more higher education institutions to India, but will also familiarise individuals with the country’s opportunities and challenges.

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

Post-EU Referendum turmoil in the UK (and the EU) continues, for all sorts of reasons, but soon more serious and sustained assessment of the post-Brexit landscape for UK universities will occur. In such a context here is the question to consider: is an Oxbridge-Lille (a joint Cambridge-Oxford university) or equivalent (e.g.,

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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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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. Katherine Friend is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Nottingham Trent University.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. Saleema is one of more than 126,000 students, including nearly 17,000 refugees, studying at this tuition-free, nonprofit online university with an all-volunteer faculty.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

While global commentators have long focused on the rise in quality and capacity of Chinese institutions, the Indian Government’s commitment to building the scale and impact of higher education has set the nation on a trajectory to compete with China, the United States and Western Europe for supremacy in knowledge leadership. in 2015 or 17.8%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. As president of the Washington, D.C.-based

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. Today, she is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. 4) I have had the opportunity to redesign the institutional research function at both community colleges and at a public regional university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy. Sustaining success Retention rates have steadily increased.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

The opposition should fix a system that benefits the highest earners and those with wealthy parents Since the coalition government raised the cap on tuition fees in 2012, student debt has soared. The declining value of tuition fees has left some universities struggling to cover their costs.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

Today’s HEPI blog is the text of a speech by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to a joint meeting of the Senate and Council at Lancaster University. It is a great pleasure to be back at Lancaster University. Back to the future I hope you will let me begin with some history.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by John Raftery, Principal of John Raftery and Associates and former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Wolverhampton and London Metropolitan University. English universities are, by many measures, consistently among the very best in the world, outperforming most if not all other competitors.

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HEPI

APRIL 12, 2025

Joseph Morrison-Howe is an undergraduate Economics student at the University of Nottingham. 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.

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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). Another head, Jesse Elzinga, kicks out at universities’ entry procedures for encouraging depth over breadth.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Dr. Nicholas Bell Further entrenching this racialized injustice is more recent research that inappropriately uses achievement covariates in statistical models to make universal problematic claims that Black and Latinx students are underrepresented in special education. Journal of Education Policy, 25 (2), 253-276.

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HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Alice Wilby , Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Access, Participation and Student Experience) at University College Birmingham. Widening participation: We can develop full pathway education, with progression mapped from Levels 1 to 7. How to do it?

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SRHE

JULY 12, 2024

Higher education is not just a topic of study for higher education researchers. As an ‘open access’ field ( Harland, 2012 ), it is also a focus for disciplines such as sociology, economics, business studies, political science, psychology and even geography.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In October, HEPI, with support from Lloyds Banking Group, hosted a roundtable dinner in Edinburgh on universities’ financial resilience as well as higher education’s impact on regional growth and prosperity. Every single university in the UK is in search of more money.

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University Business

JUNE 21, 2024

Community colleges must recommit to reforming developmental education courses, or dev-ed, to ensure K12 students hampered by the pandemic won’t crash out of the postsecondary track, declares a new report from FutureEd, a public policy think tank at Georgetown University.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 12, 2024

By Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. With Oxford and Cambridge as its book-ends, the ARC includes Cranfield University, the University of Buckingham, Buckinghamshire New University, and the Open University, all clustered in or near Milton Keynes.[1]

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This is because yet another important body focused on higher education policy – the brilliant Centre for Global Higher Education ( CGHE ) – hosted an event at the UCL Institute of Education last Friday to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Dearing report’s publication.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 6, 2023

India’s University Grants Commission has released draft regulations that stakeholders have welcomed as an “excellent step forward” for international higher educational institutions to establish campuses in the country.

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2025

OBITUARY Claire Sorrel Callender By Simon Marginson * Professor Claire Callender OBE, who held joint professorships at UCL Institute of Education and Birkbeck, University of London, died at home amid her family on Tuesday, 15 April, after the cancer which developed in one lung and was in remission had moved to the other.

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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. It was rooted in the post-2012 settlement and the new possibilities it opened up. How we got here We got here because of the raising of the fee cap in 2012.

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SRHE

APRIL 17, 2024

In 2024 fifty or more universities have declared or are likely to declare redundancies , as their funding position becomes ever more perilous. Student fees have been frozen at £9250 for a decade, and their real value has declined to the extent that they are now worth no more than the £6000 which applied in 2012 before the fee went to £9000.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since. This article looks back at the report and considers what the lessons might be for politicians, officials and higher education leaders contemplating a future review.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

suggesting that universities should take their share of responsibility for the plight of HE: For many of our universities the “student experience” has become the organising concept, the fount of a thousand strategic priorities and key performance indicators. It may not be Virgin territory, but is higher education on the right track?”

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HEPI

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The devolution of higher education policy beyond Westminster seems here to stay. Higher education is arguably the one area where the devolved institutions have flexed their muscles the most. Scotland Higher education policy has been a totemic issue in elections to the Scottish Parliament. But has it succeeded?

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SRHE

MARCH 4, 2025

by Rob Cuthbert Ideas of the university in the public domain are hopelessly impoverished. Fifty years on from the Robbins Report , that was how Ron Barnett began Imagining the University in 2013, and it seems that nothing much has changed since then. Stefan Collini had written a much-cited book, What are universities for? ,

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Universities on Fire. Johns Hopkins University Press. The Road Ahead for America's Colleges & Universities. Oxford University Press. Harvard University Press. University of Chicago Press. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities. Creating the Market University.

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