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Is England really the world champion in overqualification?

HEPI

If accurate, this statistic seems to reflect a substantial waste of human capital and raises questions about the state of the UK labour market and education system. The nuances of national education systems can render such comparisons tenuous. Yet, qualifications are inherently tricky to standardise internationally.

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Rethinking the Financial Challenge of English Universities

HEPI

Almost three decades ago, the British government committed to massifying education and ensuring that at least 50% of their school-leaving population had the privilege of going to university. An equitable orientation to its higher education system would assist this strategic national agenda. The challenge was how to pay for it.

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Watch for these 5 high-impact trends shaping higher education business in 2025

University Business

A 2024 report from National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions revealed a 7.5% increase in unionized faculty and a 133% surge in unionized GSEs since 2012.

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Addressing global challenges together: the power of education diplomacy

The PIE News

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. An encouraging example of the increasing internationalisation of higher education is the recent overhaul of India’s educational framework through the National Education Policy (NEP).

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“Education fever”: Changing international study trends in South Korea

The PIE News

But, while South Korea’s population is declining , so too is confidence in the higher education system, outside of the elite universities. As the craze for overseas education grows every year, the number of domestic global campuses and international schools of overseas universities has increased even more in Korea,” says Yoon.

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U.S.-China relations in higher ed is slipping. That’s a problem.

University Business

Similarly, Ohio bill SB 83 proposed in March aims to ban outright all formal relationships between Ohio’s public higher education system and China’s academic institutions. For example, while the 2012-13 academic year experienced a 21% increase in Chinese students, the 2019-20 uptick was less than 1%.

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Warning issued to Taiwan’s ministries over int’l student exploitation

The PIE News

Data released in July by the ministry of education suggests that Taiwan’s universities will see another dip in enrolment next year to under 900,000 students, 20% down from 2012 levels. International recruitment by universities has further suffered by a ban imposed by China in 2020 on Chinese nationals studying in Taiwan.