Remove 2014 Remove Educational Policy Remove Scholarship
article thumbnail

Despite being global leader, UK cannot afford to rest on its laurels in digital, AI and green skills

HEPI

This indicator used data from the World Bank Group, UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Education Policy Institute. The Government also wants to ‘increase its share of the worlds top 1,000 AI researchers’ and will launch an AI scholarship scheme to support 100 students to study in the UK.

article thumbnail

Invisible labour: visible activism

SRHE

Dr Inci Toral is an Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham, Business School and she is the Business Education Research and Scholarship (BERS) Convenor at Birmingham Business School. Her work revolves around digital marketing, retailing, creativity and innovation in retail education and authentic assessments.

university leaders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Weekend Reading: Rethinking the Cost of Higher Education – A Lecture Revisited

HEPI

He gave this lecture from Opposition in January 2014. More than eleven years later, we revisit his lecture to consider what lessons it holds for today’s higher education sector. The 150m a year National Scholarship Programme which flared and died in just three years was otherwise known as the Save Nick Cleggs Face fund.

article thumbnail

The health of higher education studies – cause for optimism?

SRHE

A similar increase was evident in relation to the impact case studies submitted for both exercises, with the number of higher education-focussed impact case studies increasing from 15 per cent of all those submitted to the Education unit of assessment in REF2014 to 21 per cent in REF2021 (see Table 2).

article thumbnail

UK playing catch up with US for top spot in soft power rankings

The PIE News

The latest analysis compiled by the Higher Education Policy Institute shows that in 2023, 65 world leaders are graduates of US higher education institutions, a decline of two on last year’s figures. The UK increased its count by two, including 58 leaders among its alumni.

article thumbnail

SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

The HEFCE-commissioned evaluation tells us only that it was not very ‘useful’ in the terms defined by the current policy framework. It may not be Virgin territory, but is higher education on the right track?” (No No 46 English higher education policy: hope and pay ). No 13 On the right track? ).

article thumbnail

Five challenges for policy research on higher education

SRHE

While this may have led to a certain lack of interaction and integration initially ( Macfarlane, 2012 ; Tight, 2014 ), the trend towards interdisciplinary scholarship can bring these different perspectives together in creative ways.