SRHE

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

By Mohammed Bashiru and Professor Cai Yonghong Introduction The idea of institutional autonomy in higher education institutions (HEIs) naturally comes up when discussing academic freedom. How does institutional autonomy influence academic freedom in higher education institutions in Ghana?

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The PIE News

JANUARY 14, 2025

International Enrolment in Ireland 2017/18-2023/24 Photo: ApplyBoard. The report , which analyses data from Irelands Higher Education Authority (HEA), saw Indian student enrolment increase by nearly 50%, overtaking the US to become the largest global sending market. Source: HEA.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

With about 40% of England’s universities suffering deficits , course closures and a fall in international applications following visa restrictions imposed by the last government, ministers needed to act. Higher education was left out of last week’s budget. Clearly, the trend of widening access cannot be assumed.

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Edu Alliance Journal

JANUARY 27, 2025

During that time, I took on the role of President/CEO of the American Association of University Administrators (AAUA) and dedicated myself fully to the organization. At 74, I still have ideas to share and contributions to make in the field of higher education. Unfortunately, Urbana University didnt survive.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 27, 2025

A key player in Manifest Globals portfolio is Cialfo , a Singapore -based edtech organisation founded in 2017. The corporate restructuring under Manifest Global will now lead to Cialfo focusing exclusively on serving the K-12 market, while Explore will continue to engage in student and counsellor outreach for university stakeholders.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Her piece split opinion but generated a lively debate, which is of course HEPI’s purpose as the UK’s only dedicated higher education think tank. Mary also has an entry this year at number 16, with a counter-intuitive piece on minimum entry requirements for higher education.

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HEPI

MAY 18, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Peter Ainsworth, the author of Setting Universities Free: How to deliver a sustainable student funding system (2022) Picture the 1930s economic slump, absent Keynes’s challenge to prevailing thought.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Even though there are wonderful colleges and universities across the states and country, they can’t find enough students to enroll, and every year there are headlines about colleges folding or being acquired.” Public universities and private universities all have very different kinds of funding allocations,” said Dirks.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

My research specialism lies in feedback for student learning in higher education, a modest niche within a Cinderella sub-field: higher education pedagogic research. Up until 2017-18, the term feedback literacy generated some buzz at higher education conferences, but was infrequently found in the literature.

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University Business

JUNE 5, 2023

Pennsylvania is facing a double-edged sword in funding its higher education system next year, so much so that Gov. Josh Shapiro proclaimed his state’s public higher education system “isn’t working. Consequently, university officials and state leaders are caught in a conundrum over what to do.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

If this is a tenet of the Conservative approach to education, then one might assume the lengthy period of Conservative-led governments since 2010 would have ushered in a more diverse higher education sector by stimulating more independent provision. Yet today there are only 422 registered providers.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Helen Gourlay on why the numbers don’t add up for students or universities. And Yassin El-Moudden says turning students into consumers has warped tertiary education economics Re university fees, the numbers don’t add up, and never did ( Editorial, 4 November ). The current “solution” is no better. Continue reading.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Williams’s parents had met during their time at Southern and A&M College, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They shared their convictions with their two sons, including the importance of education and social service. “I didn’t understand why everybody didn’t have access.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The government has announced universities can charge up to £9,535 from 2025-26. Here’s the lowdown on the changes University fees are on the way up. The maximum universities can charge is currently £9,250 – a cap that has been in place since 2017. Here’s what parents and students need to know about the changes.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

by Rob Cuthbert In England the use of the title university is regulated by law, a duty which now lies with the regulator, the Office for Students (OfS). The responsible agency for naming was once simply the Privy Council, a responsibility transferred to the OfS with the Higher Education and Research Act 2017.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Image: The latest bill targeting wealthy colleges and universities would require those with endowments over $1 billion—around 136 public and private colleges nationwide—to cover a certain percentage of all students’ cost of attendance. Many higher education experts called the bill bad policy.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

First lift since 2017 staves off fuller reckoning with higher-education funding but gives no confidence for the future It was always going to be difficult for a Labour government to get it right on tuition fees. Continue reading.

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HEPI

JUNE 23, 2024

This blog was kindly authored by Professor Robert Dover, Interim Dean of the Faculty of Business, Law and Politics, University of Hull. Higher education is the hidden issue in the current UK general election campaign. The domestic tuition fee in England has been capped at £9250 since 2017 (having been £9,000 since 2012).

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HEPI

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Last month, alongside her announcement that tuition fees would be increased in line with inflation, Secretary of State for Education Bridget Phillipson wrote to universities setting out her priorities for higher education reform. Universities role in adult learning has not been particularly creditable in recent years.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This guest blog has been written for HEPI by Fiona Walsh, Partnerships and Development Director at Student Hubs , which is a national charity, working in partnership with universities to deliver social action programmes which support higher education students to engage with social and environmental challenges.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Our surveys of the British workforce, which employ similar methodologies, show a modest drop in overqualification rates between 2006 and 2017, from 30% to 26%. If the reported OECD figures are to be believed, the rise would imply an extraordinary shift since 2017: approximately 2.5 Overqualification is indeed a pressing issue.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Kim Schatzel will become president of the University of Louisville, effective Feb. universities where Black, Latinx, and Pell-eligible students achieve the same graduation rate as the overall student population. Award in 2020; and being named one of the Most Admired CEOs of The Daily Record in 2017 and 2022.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

remains a top choice for international students pursuing higher education, with approximately six percent of the student population consisting of international students (Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange, 2024). This data underscores their integral role in higher education. References Hsu, C.-F.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Katherine Emms , a Senior Education & Policy Researcher at the Edge Foundation. Edge’s research New Higher Education Institutions in England: A real chance to innovate? In some cases, these institutions have been set up in regions where higher education options and access are limited.

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HEPI

APRIL 20, 2024

This chapter was authored by David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science from 2010 to 2014 and author of A University Education (2017). Our universities face a funding crisis. Fees of £9,250 are not sufficient to cover the costs of delivering higher education to the typical student.

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HEPI

MARCH 11, 2025

One such document in 2015 laid out the Cameron Governments reform of English apprenticeships which heralded the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy in 2017. At over 45%, the drop-out rates from apprenticeships are at a level that would make higher education blush and the system is beset by widespread and deep-rooted quality issues.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Susanna Kalitowski, Head of Policy at the University Alliance. Back in 2017, a Lords Committee warned that the absence of long-term workforce planning was ‘the biggest internal threat to the sustainability of the NHS’. Yet we have not had a national NHS workforce strategy since 2003.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

While China is proactive in recruiting African students, Africa seems to play a relatively passive role does this stark imbalance in student mobility pose future risks to Africas higher education? South Africa is attractive as its universities have a strong reputation for quality and English programmes on offer.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A new report is calling for internationalisation at home to be a central part of the UK’s next higher education strategy, as it warns of a decline in international diversity within universities. The report is the latest from IHEC in a series informing the development of a new strategy for higher education in the UK.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne PHOTO COURTESY OF CUNY Becoming Dean of Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enables Dr. Dara N. Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. That led Byrne to pursue her doctorate at Howard University. Upon completion of her Ph.D.

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HEPI

JANUARY 29, 2025

Since then, they have taken the higher education sector by storm. Their growth has been the key factor in the expansion of higher apprenticeships from 43,800 starts in 2015/16 to 273,700 in 2023/24, a rise from 4.8% to 35% of all apprenticeships. DAs have, however, recently come under scrutiny.

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HEPI

MAY 14, 2024

Next Tuesday 21st May, we are hosting a webinar discussing non-continuation in UK universities, following the publication of a HEPI Policy Note on the issue. This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Professor James Tooley , Vice Chancellor at the University of Buckingham. You can sign up to the webinar here.

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HEPI

JUNE 6, 2023

On the website of nearly every university, you will find an explanation that the institution is a charity. And why are universities not generally talked about as charities, in the same way as, say, Oxfam or Macmillan Cancer Support? Of course, the fundamental question is whether all our not-for-profit universities are charities at all.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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Today's Learner

OCTOBER 29, 2024

She was selected as a distinguished alumni of Abilene Christian University in 2021 and of Longview High School in 2018. In 2017, Essie was elected as President of the Texas Community College Teachers Association and received the Carol Dochen Developmental Educator of the Year Award. Britton Leggett , Ph.D.,

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Wendy Thomson CBE, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London. Starting university can be daunting. Even more so for those who face additional barriers to accessing higher education. ’ This should not be the case.

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