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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

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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SRHE

JULY 12, 2024

by William Locke Higher education research has grown in recent decades. For example, the number of journal articles published on higher education has increased five-fold in the last twenty years ( Seeber, 2023 ). Here, I offer five interrelated challenges for policy research on higher education.

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

Or might an equivalent of Cornell Tech NYC be worth creating in European higher education and research space? Hearing 2 – Higher Education and Research (A. Corbett, LSE Commission on the Future of Britain in Europe, 8 December 2015). Research Councils UK – Written evidence (4 December 2015).

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HEPI

OCTOBER 30, 2022

As the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill returns to Parliament today, HEPI is running two blogs on the issue. Boggs, University Clerk at Kingston University and Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPs). This blog was kindly contributed by Andrew.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In a closing members’ discussion, we noted that higher education is connected to all of the big political topics of our moment, but rarely seems to be acknowledged by politicians as such. Either way, we inevitably found ourselves wondering what role higher education will play in these parties’ campaigns – if any.

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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.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

by Oudai Tazan HE and inequality The debate over whether higher education (HE) serves as a vehicle for social mobility that nurtures meritocracy or as a mechanism for social reproduction that reinforces and exacerbates inequalities in society has persisted for some time. link] [link]

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The PIE News

JUNE 6, 2024

In 2022, there were 231,150 international students in Japan – the country’s lowest enrolment since 2015, according to JASSO, the semi-autonomous agency for inbound internationalisation.

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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.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Ultimately, I graduated from Florida State University with a bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition science and a new passion for a career in higher education to ensure more students have equitable access to college and to supports, such as childcare, that help them succeed. I would later earn my Ph.D. Other steps are needed.

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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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HEPI

DECEMBER 12, 2024

1] Similar desiderata are explored in a recent Report of the Higher Education Policy Institute on the future of the Oxford to Cambridge Arc in the context of the regional working together of the other local universities. A provider of higher education may see itself as a member of a group in ways remote from the region.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

It was a fascinating session because it was the first time that a number of your senior managers had been in a room together, and yet Lancaster University – like higher education institutions more generally – had continued to thrive during the worst of the pandemic.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

by Katy Jordan, Janja Komljenovic and Jeremy Knox The SRHE Digital University Network was launched in 2012, with a view to present “ critical, theorised and research-based perspectives on technologies in higher education ”. Janja’s research focuses on the political economy of knowledge production and higher education markets.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

in sociology in 2015 from Emory University’s Laney Graduate School and her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and political science from North Carolina Central University. She is also a columnist for the New York Times, an award-winning author, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. McMillan Cottom received her Ph.D.

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HEPI

JUNE 26, 2024

It articulates the principles of UK higher education for securing academic standards and assuring and enhancing quality. As with the ownership and provenance of the UK Quality Code, the ESG is itself owned by the sector stakeholders of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The previous edition was published in 2018.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 25, 2023

The trio is championing the initiative as one that provides open, low-cost, flexible access to higher education. A higher education cocktail that mixes a university known for innovation , an experienced provider of compelling educational multimedia content and a behemoth online video-sharing website holds promise.

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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. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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HEPI

APRIL 7, 2025

James is co-lead of Interpaths Education Team and has advised on over 20 mergers and potential mergers in the FE and HE sectors. Is it time for higher education (HE) to follow suit? So are there things that higher education institutions can learn from a major upheaval started in FE in 2015?

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Journal of Education Policy, 25 (2), 253-276. The racial nexus between social disaster, housing wealth, and public policy. Minorities are disproportionately underrepresented in special education: Longitudinal evidence across five disability conditions. Educational Researcher , 44 , 278–292. Gillborn, D. Morgan, P.

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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. His father was a doctor who worked at the local hospital, but it was bombed in 2015. Afterward, his father treated patients in his home.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed.,

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

For example, take the pace at which the English population can acquire higher education and skills. Many of the UK’s competitors have systems of higher education where the time taken to achieve a Bachelor’s level is much slower, which itself is a problem for them. The power of the student voice has been amplified.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

As the university is reinvented by education entrepreneurs across the world, Bryan Penprase and Noah Pickus consider some of the tricky issues founders face, in this excerpt from The New Global Universities Higher education is a complex environment in which simple solutions often end up dashed on the rocks.

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2025

Claires life and contributions will now be celebrated, but her passing at a relatively young age has sent a wave of sadness through UK and world higher education. She was awarded an OBE for services to higher education in 2017. million for 2015 to 2020.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now, there is a new analysis based on the Federal government’s College Scorecard that ranks 4,000 higher education institutions, providing prospective students with a clear and detailed view of their earning potential with specific majors, from which colleges and universities, and how quickly graduates pay off their loans.

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HEPI

MARCH 29, 2025

More than eleven years later, we revisit his lecture to consider what lessons it holds for today’s higher education sector. John Denham, March 2025 RSA Lecture The Cost of Higher Education Good evening. I want to change the terms of the debate, not present a detailed plan for university education.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It seemed right that a research think tank / charity should seek to help bring on (in a small way) the next generation of people interested in education policy, even if it was going to mean extra bureaucracy and hassle for us. (In So what is the purpose of this discursive blog? It’s threefold.

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HEPI

JANUARY 1, 2025

A UKIP Licence The first of these, published back in 2015, proposed a National Licence to give everyone with a UK Internet Protocol address access at no upfront charge to past and present academic research. And each one is now seared on my mind. The associated backend costs were designed to be covered by government payments to publishers.

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The PIE News

JULY 26, 2023

Now we have the facts to substantiate what higher education officials have often reported: that it is harder for students in certain countries to acquire visas than in other countries. Adjusted Refusal Rates By Continent (2015-2022). Adjusted Refusal Rates By African Region (2015-2022).

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SRHE

APRIL 20, 2023

by Phil Pilkington In March 2023 Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), wrote a review of Freedom of Speech in Universities: Islam, Charities and Counter-terrorism by Alison Scott-Baumann and Simon Perfect (both SOAS), covering freedom of speech, populism (of the left and right), ‘no platforming’, and students.

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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. by Rob Cuthbert. No 4 The English experiment ).

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The event was introduced by the chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Adult Education, Margaret Greenwood MP, who said that a gender pay gap and class ceiling in many sectors for disadvantaged women had been exacerbated by Covid, its aftermath and cost-of-living crisis – and this event was timely. Women accounted to just 6.7

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: As recently as 2015, the University of Phoenix enrolled more than 400,000 learners, making it not only the center of the for-profit higher education universe but the biggest university in the United States by far. Phoenix wasn’t just synonymous with for-profit higher education. What’s acceptable?

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GlobalHigherEd

JANUARY 14, 2018

Morshidi was the former Director-General of Higher Education Malaysia, and is now Director of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Facility (CTEF) based at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. Morshidi is also a Senior Research Fellow at the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN), Universiti Sains Malaysia.

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SRHE

JANUARY 17, 2024

At the time of writing, the UK news agenda is being dominated by what is being described as one of the biggest miscarriages of justice the country has ever seen – 736 post office workers between 1999 and 2015 were prosecuted for false accounting or theft based on information from an IT system called Horizon.

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