SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

by Marie-Pierre Moreau and Lucie Wheeler Cleaning, catering and security staff fulfil an important function in maintaining and enhancing the social and material environment of higher education (HE). Yet this group has attracted limited considerations from researchers and policy-makers alike.

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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. Analytics in higher education: Benefits, barriers, progress, and recommendations. Ready to find out more?

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The study – published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) – examined data of students in Boston Public Schools during the 2007–08 to 2017–18 school years, of which 3,515 took part in the Boston Debate League.

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SRHE

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. What we are finding here is pretty large,” said Liu, equivalent to hundreds of additional students staying in school and earning degrees.

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SRHE

AUGUST 21, 2023

by Katherine Emms The 2017 Higher Education and Research Act (HERA) enabled new and innovative HE providers to enter and establish themselves, with the aim of diversifying the HE sector. Katherine Emms is a Senior Education and Policy Researcher at the Edge Foundation.

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The PIE News

JULY 5, 2024

The stage was set for greater overseas investment by India’s New Education Policy 2020 , “India’s declaration to the world that ‘we’re open’” according to Tomar. Given that travelling overseas for education is not possible for the vast majority, India offers huge potential for TNE enrolments.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

.” One federal state, Baden-Württemberg, introduced fees for non-EU students in 2017/18 , but has already announced the fees will be abolished in the next months. The Bavarian Higher Education Innovation Act allows universities to decide whether to introduce tuition fees for international students.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

These remarks were made by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to yesterday’s Centre for Global Higher Education ( CGHE ) event marking the recent twenty-fifth anniversary of the Dearing report. Early on, one of our first reports concerned the personal and public economic benefits of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

McMillan Cottom’s dissertation research at Emory explored for-profit colleges, which led to her first book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy, which published in 2017 and catapulted her onto the national scene. “I The sociology-trained scholar now asks questions like, “Where's the power?”

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SRHE

JANUARY 22, 2025

We concluded that this form of emotional labour was a form of wife work, work that is essential to the running of the home (aka Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)) yet often undervalued and the person carries the mental load.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

“Black kids are underrepresented in gifted services and overrepresented in special education services,” said report co-author Dr. Cassandra Hart, an associate professor of education policy at UC Davis. Most teachers are not Black.”

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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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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Federal, state, and institutional policymakers have the power to close these racial and economic gaps and promote equitable access to the better living and better life that higher education can provide. The Institute for Higher Education Policy. 2017, updated 2021). The Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Policy had become centralised although institutional autonomy was pledged to be preserved. It is palpably evident that centralisation under an Office for Students (established as primarily a Regulator but replacing the UGC and its successor body, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)) is running out of road.

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HEPI

JANUARY 18, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Pat Tissington , Academic Director (Employability and Skills) at the University of Warwick and Dr Pat Mertova , Consultant in Higher Education and Policy at the Associates in Higher Education Policy, Development and Quality (AHEPDQ).

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HEPI

MARCH 4, 2024

There has been a decrease in the number of institutions awarded Gold, 20% compared to 35% in 2017, but this is subject to change as ‘pending’ outcomes are finalised. A 2018 survey by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) found that 73% of students said that the TEF had influenced their decision of where to study.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 5, 2023

Warning comes after party ditched its promise to abolish university tuition fees in England UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer has been warned that he has “no easy options” over student loans and higher education financing, after the Labour leader’s decision to scrap an earlier policy of abolishing tuition fees in England.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer In 2021, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education reported that two out of three learners—we call them learners, not students, to dispel the image of the 18- to 22-year-old residential student—come to college with previous credit or prior learning. 2005 ) around what can or cannot be counted.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Building on a previous blog post by the Higher Education Policy Institute, this post seeks to explore the issues with the current Bill for the student accommodation sector – and why parity between purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and the private student rental sector is needed.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2023

These are far more extensive than HEFCE possessed in its role of ‘buffer’ between Government and providers of higher education and Must do Better is concerned that the OfS has been adding to them. Can it improve sufficiently to help protect the future of English higher education? That would require fresh legislation.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

“It has been the desire of many entrepreneurs, foundations and policy leaders that microcredentials will become the substitute for expensive degrees,” Sean Gallagher, executive professor of educational policy at Northeastern University, said.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

At the next level, what we used to call further and higher education will be swept away to create a new Higher Skills curriculum. We committed to a second phase of the project (HS2) through legislation in the Higher Education and Research Act in 2017. But now we need to change course. And we are it.”

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

by Kat Emms For two years Edge Foundation has been drawing together lessons from past education policies. Rather than focussing on traditional further education provision, these establishments wholly or largely concentrated on higher education (‘advanced’) courses.

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ACPA

MARCH 6, 2023

Her research has been featured in many academic journals including Online Learning and the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning , and at academic conferences including the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). link] Sundt, M.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Amy Costa, president of the Board of Governors, said she wants someone who is “student focused and centered” and will continue implementing the Vision for Success , a strategic plan instituted by Oakley to close equity gaps and increase transfer and graduation rates and adopted by the system in 2017.

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SRHE

APRIL 17, 2024

by Rob Cuthbert Higher education has always been something of a playground for junior politicians; HE ministers usually serve only short terms, and many are practising for bigger jobs. TPS contributions rose sharply on 1 April 2024 as Tom Williams reported for Times Higher Education on 18 March 2024.

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SRHE

MARCH 14, 2023

by GR Evans Under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act higher education providers and students’ unions will be required to publish Codes of Practice on freedom of speech. The Bill sets out the requirements separately for higher education providers (at A2 (2)(c)) and for students’ unions (at A6(2)(c)).

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Whilst the datafication of education (Stevenson, 2017) is not a new concept, the new OfS guidelines are likely to exacerbate this approach, indeed it can be seen as a formalisation of an ongoing process. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (2010) Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education (“The Browne Report”).

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The PIE News

AUGUST 21, 2023

The UK is closing its gap with the US in the latest Soft-Power Index, with the latter retaining top spot having educated 65 world leaders. Since 2017, the last year when the UK boasted having the most serving world leaders as alumni of any country in the world, the US has extended its lead every year after overtaking the UK in 2018.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Image: A few things are dependable in higher education, no matter what the high-level trends are. One is that some faculty members are going to do outrageous things, leaders on their campuses are going to get mad and Inside Higher Ed' s readers won't be able to get enough of it. The list below has examples of both.

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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

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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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

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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