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New medical schools: the story so far

HEPI

In September, HEPI, with support from the University of Sunderland, hosted a roundtable dinner on the future of medical education in the UK. This is a longstanding issue and universities have been at the heart of attempts to tackle it. This is a longstanding issue and universities have been at the heart of attempts to tackle it.

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Deep Internationalization & Infrastructure

GlobalHigherEd

Over the last several years, it has been interesting to see the development of some new and relatively deep collaborative models of institutional (or ‘commercial,’ using GATS parlance) presence in territories outside of universities’ main campuses. While there are 250+ branch campuses around the world, including somewhat similar models (e.g.,

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Georgia: int’ls double amid Ukraine crisis

The PIE News

As a result, thousands of the students – many enrolled in medical and degree programs – are studying in some of the 62 universities in the former republic of the Soviet Union, along thousands of Indian counterparts who also fled the fighting. The Study in Georgia initiative was set up in 2016.

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Laser focused: what are the benefits of single-subject institutions?

The PIE News

From art colleges to medical schools, specialised higher education institutions are nothing new. Kaplan International Colleges, London, 2016. However, Kaplan Pathways’ latest partner, The Engineering & Design Institute London takes this concept a step further, offering just one subject — Global Design Engineering.

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UK still looking to “expand and grow” international numbers

The PIE News

The ability for UK masters and PhD students to bring dependants is key in allowing UK universities to recruit students from a wider range of countries and compete against other study destinations, the UK government has emphasised. Expanding the breadth of countries to recruit international students also remains a priority, she suggested.

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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Assuming the Mantle of Interim University Leadership When Chancellor Reyes first considered filling the top leadership vacancy, his expectations were somewhat different from what actually happened: "My idea at that moment was, we're going to be a strong team and we're going to be leading the university as a 'we,' not necessarily as an 'I.'

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

This long read was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. From the inherent right to grant degrees to requiring permission The power to permit the award of degrees began as an inherent right of the first English universities.

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