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India a ‘target country’ for Finland’s Talent Boost program

The PIE News

As per the latest statistics, there are over 22,000 international students in Finnish higher education institutions, with Indian students maintaining a steady number. Finland International School, an initiative by Indian business conglomerate Goenka Inc.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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Finland’s visa processing issues resulting in “bottleneck”

The PIE News

A survey of Finland’s universities of applied sciences has revealed that increasing numbers of students are finding themselves unable to enter the country due to visa issues. . And now we have the situation where the higher education institutions don’t get the funding if the students don’t arrive,” she added. .

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Ask not what you can do for engineering…

HEPI

This piece considers how the school curriculum can be adapted to develop creativity, practical skills, and inclusive, real-world learning. It might be reasonable then to suppose that the school curriculum would be designed to prepare pupils for a sector that accounts for a fifth of UK jobs and a quarter of vacancies. [i]

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Q&A: Jayathi Murthy Works to Deliver Higher Education Across Oregon

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

A mechanical engineer with decades of experience in both academia and industry, she was previously the dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. EDTECH: Oregon State is seeing enrollment growth during a difficult moment for higher education, and its Ecampus program is a driver of that trend.…

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Preparing the community for in-demand careers

Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

LCCC has been developing unique expertise in semiconductor and microelectronic manufacturing education and training for more than a decade. LCCC offers Ohio’s only associate of applied science and bachelor of applied science degrees in microelectronic manufacturing , preparing students for work in this growing semiconductor industry.

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2023 PIEoneer Awards finalists revealed

The PIE News

The UK represents heavily in the student support category, with Study Group, FTI Consulting, University of Bristol and QA Higher Education all joining Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences from the Netherlands and studentVIP in Canada as finalists.