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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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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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. The post What next for int’l education after South Korea’s political crisis?

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Yet, as higher education is increasingly reshaped by market logics, can open universities still claim to be engines of social progress, or have they become institutions that now reproduce the very inequalities they sought to dismantle? This struggle over education is central to the survival of democracy.

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HEPI

JANUARY 31, 2024

The logic of fees Whether we like it or not, there is one higher education issue that tends to bestride all the others at general elections, and that is tuition fees. Moreover, higher education finance is a devolved matter. The SNP have been re-elected more than once since, each time promising to keep the policy in place.

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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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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. sheeo.org) Massachusetts Proposes $2.5

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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. But will these new entrants improve Indian higher education? The vision of internationalisation at home is about to become a permanent reality.

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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. The Higher Education and Research Act (2017) s.3(8)(a)

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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.

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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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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.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The first intake is expected for 2025, with four undergraduate and two graduate degrees to choose from. ” Meanwhile, OIEG’s CEO Lil Bremermann-Richard predicted that public-private partnerships with become “increasingly crucial” to the UK higher education landscape.

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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. Her chapters begin with a survey of the organisation of UK higher education today. The scope of the needs to be met is now very wide.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

For a higher education policy wonk, this summer was a momentous occasion. First, there were stories and debates beamed into my hotel room on breakfast TV about the value of higher education, graduate debt and whether degrees really lead to well-paid jobs.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The proposed amendments to Australia’s ESOS Bill have elicited a strong response from diverse voices within the higher education sector over the past six months. NUHEPs have invested – and continue to invest – in their operations through a long-term commitment to higher education in Australia.

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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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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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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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The PIE News

AUGUST 7, 2024

ITECA, which represents independent skills training and higher education providers, has highlighted the inconsistencies in the Australian government’s approach, which has been the matter of much criticism since the ESOS amendments were proposed. billion in economic output and over 22,500 jobs in the economy,” she predicted.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 9, 2024

“What we’re doing is making sure we protect the integrity of the system – and that is important – but also protecting the social licence for the system to continue to operate,” said Clare, adding that international education was an “incredibly important national asset”. billion hit to Australia’s economy in 2025, or about 0.5%

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 12, 2025

These arrangements became more contentious as the cost of higher education continued to rise, particularly in the case of online degrees. Critics argue that the large sums taken by OPMs like Risepoint divert essential funds from universities, leading to higher tuition fees and contributing to the growing student debt crisis.

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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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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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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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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. Courtney, welcome back to the show.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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HEPI

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Meanwhile, Russia and China continue with smartist policies, strengthening their power. When it comes to higher education, Mental Parity means a free-for-all for students, whose opposition to IQ tests is shown by their IQuit badges. Whats this got to do with higher education you may well ask. Merry Christmas!

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

college or university say their barriers have been to finishing their education over three years. Courtney Brown of the Lumina Foundation Higher ed leaders can learn what 6,000 current students, 3,000 people who stopped out, and 3,000 more who never enrolled in a U.S. Courtney, welcome to the program.

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IHEP

AUGUST 5, 2024

Department of Education (ED): do not reduce the frequency of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS). The message was delivered via the bipartisan fiscal year 2025 funding bill for the agency released late last week. Recently, ED indicated it still plans to reduce the NPSAS collection frequency due to resource constraints.

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