Your 2025 higher education policy almanac
Wonkhe
JANUARY 3, 2025
Michael Salmon leafs through all the policy developments the higher education sector is looking forward to, dreading, or otherwise expecting for the year ahead
Continuing our vital work together in 2025
IHEP
DECEMBER 12, 2024
This season presents opportunities to share gratitude for the Institute for Higher Education Policys hard-working team and engaged partners, celebrate our impact, and set sights on the year ahead. In 2025, we will continue to celebrate, deepen, and grow our teams skills, passions, and talents. Its also a time for reflection.
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Australia’s 2025 enrolment cap unveiled, but uncertainty lingers
The PIE News
AUGUST 27, 2024
On August 27, the Australian government announced that, subject to the passage of legislation before the parliament, a National Planning Level for new international student commencements will be set at 270,000 for calendar year 2025.
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How Project 2025’s War on Higher Education Diversity Threatens Our Global Competitiveness
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 25, 2024
The recently released "Project 2025: The Conservative Promise" paints a dystopian picture of American higher education, overrun by a "woke" ideology that supposedly threatens our nation's very foundations. This could stifle critical thinking and limit students’ exposure to diverse perspectives.
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What next for int’l education after South Korea’s political crisis?
The PIE News
APRIL 4, 2025
On April 4, 2025, South Koreas Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol , marking a historic conclusion to 122 days of political turmoil triggered by his failed declaration of martial law on December 3, 2024. However, the damage sustained during the transitionary period proved irreversible.
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University of Surrey to open branch campus in India’s GIFT City
The PIE News
JANUARY 28, 2025
We are proud and excited to be a part of the GIFT City story Lu Max, University of Surrey “Students can look forward to a world-class education delivered at the heart of a thriving new international finance and technology powerhouse for the region.
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Another year, another teacher supply crisis…
HEPI
APRIL 22, 2025
Today on the HEPI blog, John Cater revisits a quarter-century of teacher education policy to consider how we can solve the teacher supply crisis – read on below. Dr. John Cater was Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University from 1993-2025 and member of the Board of the Teacher Training Agency and its successor body from 1999-2006.
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Restoring academic values: a key for university effectiveness
SRHE
APRIL 28, 2025
by John Kenny This blog post is based on research into the effectiveness of higher education policy, published in Policy Reviews in Higher Education. The article, Effectiveness in higher education: What lessons can be learned after 40 years of neoliberal reform?
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Echoing Oz, Moody’s Downgrade Highlights a Tempest in Higher Education
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 9, 2025
The recent Moodys downgrade of the 2025 U.S. higher education outlook is not merely a financial tremor; it serves as a chilling echo of the cyclone that swept Dorothy into the tumultuous Land of Oza "tempest of uncertainty" driven by rapid policy shifts and financial pressures, threatening the very foundations of higher education.
State Funding, Federal Policy Shifts, and Major Investments Reshape Higher Ed
Insight Into Diversity
MARCH 26, 2025
Recent developments in higher education policy and funding have significant implications for institutions nationwide. From proposed increases in state support to potential federal policy changes, these updates highlight the evolving landscape of higher education. The proposal also directs $4.3
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Open universities: between radical promise and market reality
SRHE
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Across the globe, democratic institutions are under siege, and the erosion of democracy is no longer an abstraction it is unfolding in real time ( cf EIU, 2024 ; Jones, 2025 ).
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The Bombay Club 2.0: How valid are misgivings about branch campuses?
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Just five years on from the New Education Policy (NEP) announcement , the rapid proliferation of global university brands in India is ramping up.
Private colleges moot downsizing amid Australia cap uncertainty
The PIE News
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Private vocational colleges across Australia are grappling with uncertainty as they await crucial details about individual commencement caps for 2025, with no clear timeline in sight. According to Williams, some members are contemplating “drastic downsizing measures”, creating concerns around significant job losses for the sector.
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What were we reading about higher education in 2024?
HEPI
DECEMBER 19, 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, Josh Freeman, Policy Manager, and the HEPI team look back on a remarkable year in higher education policy. We have a fantastic programme of events to look forward to in 2025, which you can read all about here. Students views on generative AI in higher education.
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Washington Update: Neg Reg, Clery Act, and Chevron Decision: Changing Higher Ed podcast 223 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Tom Netting
The Change Leader, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
In this episode of Changing Higher Ed, Drumm welcomes back Tom Netting, President of TEN Government Strategies, to discuss recent higher education policy changes and challenges, covering FAFSA, Title IX, FSA, IDR, SAVE, NC-SARA, NACIQI, PPA, TRIO, Clery Act, Gainful Employment, Title IV, the Chevron Decision, and more.
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Why doesn’t higher education make a difference?
SRHE
MARCH 26, 2025
by Amir Shahsavari and Mohammad Eslahi This blog is based on research reported in Shahsavari, A, & Eslahi, M (2025) Dynamics of Imbalanced Higher Education Development: Analysing Factors and Policy Implications in Policy Reviews in Higher Education. am_shahsavari@sbu.ac.ir
Uni of Southampton and OIEG team up to launch India campus
The PIE News
OCTOBER 23, 2024
The first intake is expected for 2025, with four undergraduate and two graduate degrees to choose from.
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Australia’s NUHEPs: shonks and crooks – or an invaluable cradle of innovation?
The PIE News
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Six years of work and AUSD$6m of investment has supported the establishment of this innovative institute, which has been rewarded with a 2025 allocation of zero students. Meanwhile, the proposed caps for 2025 are 25,380, representing a forced reduction of 27%. A run on the TPS?
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What is a ‘governing document’ in the University of Sussex?
SRHE
APRIL 22, 2025
by GR Evans The Office for Students has found that the Trans and Non-Binary Equality Policy Statement of the University of Sussex involves breach of two of the relevant OfS Regulatory Requirements in late March 2025, and imposed an unprecedentedly substantial fine.
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“Opportunity” in Francophone Africa for UK unis
The PIE News
MARCH 25, 2024
This is especially timely due to them having very young populations and it being an election year for Senegal, for Cote d’Ivoire in 2025 and Morocco the year after, explained Jamie Hastings, founder and CEO of MyIO. Using the country as example, Kesiro noted just under 69,000 Moroccan students left the country to study in 2022.
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Beech-side views: Back from the future?
The PIE News
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
For a higher education policy wonk, this summer was a momentous occasion. Then, no sooner had I arrived back in the UK, I saw the news that the Australian government has set a new cap for international student enrolments through a national planning level set at 270,000 for the 2025 calendar year.
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Australian intled rallies against ESOS amendments in senate hearing
The PIE News
AUGUST 6, 2024
The impossibility of the minister setting caps for every course, the danger of granting him such overarching powers, timing issues of implementing the caps by January 1, 2025, and immigration challenges linked to processing times were some of the major criticisms directed at the government.
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Australian government refutes 40% international student cap
The PIE News
AUGUST 9, 2024
billion hit to Australia’s economy in 2025, or about 0.5% Criticisms of the government’s international education policy have intensified since the hearing on August 6, with ITECA chief executive Troy Williams claiming that the government was “drowning in its own baseless rhetoric ”. of gross domestic product.
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Lifting As They Climb
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
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. She will lead the organization in 2024-2025. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Australian ESOS bill risks 30,000 sector jobs, experts warn
The PIE News
AUGUST 7, 2024
Over the past year, we’ve seen a series of intellectually inconsistent decisions by the Australian government that lack a clear, consistent and cohesive approach to international education.” The government is now drowning in its own baseless rhetoric,” said ITECA chief executive Troy Williams.
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We wanted Here Comes the Sun, but we got Rain*: A view from Liverpool
HEPI
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Like many others with an interest in higher education policy, HEPI Director Nick Hillman swung by Liverpool for a sojourn at the Labour Party Conference. At pretty much any Labour Party conference of the past few years, you could find higher education policy wonks sat in a corner looking dazed and confused.
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Labour’s ‘change of tone’ revives foreign students’ interest in UK universities
The Guardian - Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
Admissions officers report rise in number of inquiries from international students since general election The best UK universities 2025 – rankings Applications by international students to UK universities have been revitalised in a welcome boost for the sector’s ailing financial health by the Labour government’s “change of tone” on immigration since (..)
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Net benefit of Graduate Route reached £70m in first full year, research shows
The PIE News
MAY 7, 2024
The research – published jointly by the Higher Education Policy Institute, Kaplan International Pathways and the National Union of Students and undertaken by London Economics – comes days before the Migration Advisory Committee is due to present the findings of its review into the Graduate Route, commissioned by the government.
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Surviving and thriving in HE professional services
SRHE
MARCH 19, 2025
by GR Evans This blog was first published in the Oxford Magazine No 475 (Eighth Week, Hilary term, 2025) and is reproduced here with permission of the author and the editor.
Risepoint: The Rise and Fall of Another OPM?
Higher Education Inquirer
MARCH 12, 2025
Best has been a well-known advocate for education reform and has built a network of relationships within both political parties. His close ties to Bush, a key figure in education policy, have been part of a broader pattern of OPM companies gaining influence across the political spectrum.
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Updated educational attainment data show progress and gaps
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
But recent findings from a year later show marked—though inequitable—progress toward the foundation’s goal that 60 percent of working-age adults in the country hold a degree or credential by 2025. For example, Washington, D.C.,
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El Camino faculty sabbaticals being cut due to budget issues - Emily Gomez, the Union
Economics and Change in Higher Education
DECEMBER 4, 2023
The El Camino administration decided to eliminate eight sabbatical leaves for the 2024-2025 academic year. The administration’s decision to only award four sabbatical leaves for the 2024 academic year overlooks the opinion of the Senate and the Senate’s expertise,” Academic Senate Vice President of Educational Policies Darcie McClelland said.
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Bridging the innovation gap: how universities outside Mayoral Combined Authorities can bridge the innovation gap and make the case for investment based on need
HEPI
DECEMBER 5, 2024
The need for regional investment based on need, not governance As of now, English devolution covers around 48% of Englands population, with the expectation that this will rise to 64% by 2025 with the addition of new deals (both mayoral and non-mayoral). This includes: A blog by HEPI’s Director, Nick Hillman Has Devolution Gone to Far?
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Will English lose its position as the global lingua franca?
The PIE News
MAY 18, 2023
How will any changes to the way English is used impact education policies? The Future of English Research Grant Scheme 2022-2025 has already awarded four university research grants and a calendar of conferences is in place to share findings. Learners are supported by a world-spanning industry of English teachers and trainers.
General election 2024: Higher education fees and funding
HEPI
JANUARY 31, 2024
The next general election The next general election must happen by January 2025 and seems certain to occur this year ( as the Prime Minister, who gets to choose the date, has suggested it will be in 2024 ). But crucially, higher education policy was not devolved in the way it is now back in those days.
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Arizona State turns to YouTube to reach learners on the margins
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 25, 2023
The university expects to expand to offer 12 courses by January 2025.) “Maybe that’s a reason to monitor [ASU’s new partnership] carefully,” said Sean Gallagher, executive professor of educational policy at Northeastern University. history and human communication.
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WEEKEND READING: Look Wot You Dun – Higher education in the run up to election ’24
HEPI
JULY 28, 2023
The speech looks at the state of higher education in summer 2023 and ahead to the next general election, due in 2024 (or, less likely, 2025). First, despite working in higher education policy for well over 15 years and despite having visited nearly every UK university, I have never visited the University of Wolverhampton before.
Weekend Reading: Imperfect information in higher education
HEPI
APRIL 12, 2025
[xxiii] [i] William Whyte, The Medieval University Monopoly , History Today, March 2018 [link] [ii] David Willetts, A University Education, 2015,p40-44 [iii] The Dearing Report, Higher Education in the learning society, 1997, p267 [iv] David Willetts, A University Education, 2015, p. HESA, November 2021, p.1
The State of Higher Education Part 2: Changing Higher Education Podcast 160 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Courtney Brown
The Change Leader, Inc.
JUNE 20, 2023
Before 2011, Brown was a senior research associate at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University. There, she led studies and evaluations focused on education and post-high school programs within the United States and across Europe. But as we move beyond 2025, Lumina will not give up on attainment.
Looking back at HEPI’s most controversial reports – including an unexpected one from 2024
HEPI
JANUARY 1, 2025
HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, starts 2025 by looking back at some HEPI controversies from the last decade. So when we return to the topic, as we would like to do early in 2025, perhaps it will be less fraught. It occurred six years ago, on the back of a HEPI piece by the right-of-centre policy wonk Iain Mansfield.
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Dr. Dominique J. Baker, University of Delaware
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 6, 2025
Baker is an associate professor of education and public policy with a joint appointment in the College of Education & Human Development and the Joseph R. School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware.
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Abolish GCSEs, put people’s IQs on their credit cards and ban the Harvard Women’s Rugby Team? What we were reading about education in 2024
HEPI
DECEMBER 16, 2024
In fact, we should all perhaps spend any idle moments over the festive break thinking about how best to respond to, shape and deliver the Secretary of States five-point plan that could well dominate higher education policy in the first half of 2025. What we were reading about education in 2024 appeared first on HEPI.
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Weekend Reading: Rethinking the Cost of Higher Education – A Lecture Revisited
HEPI
MARCH 29, 2025
John Denham, March 2025 RSA Lecture The Cost of Higher Education Good evening. The Higher Education Policy Institute and Which study highlighted variations between similar courses in different institutions. Unless a lot more money is to be found, some of these questions can’t be ducked.
Malaysia’s International Education by 2020 and Beyond: Re-examining Concept, Targets and Outcome
GlobalHigherEd
JANUARY 14, 2018
Morshidi is also a Senior Research Fellow at the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN), Universiti Sains Malaysia. A statement of “where we are” and “where we should be heading” will be offered for further consideration and deliberation based on the Malaysia Education Blueprint, 2015-2025 (Higher Education).
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