HEPI

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

By Martin Blakey, the former Chief Executive of the Leeds-based student housing charity Unipol. So now might be a good time to identify recent trends, cut through some of the developer-led spin that is so prevalent in the student housing world and start considering how future student housing needs may be met.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JANUARY 15, 2025

Reading Time: 13 minutes Now more than ever, knowing how to recruit students online is essential for success. A successful student recruitment plan requires a blend of innovative digital tools, personalized engagement, and a deep understanding of student behavior. In 2025, brochures and campus visits alone are no longer enough.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

JANUARY 16, 2025

When I do, I'll be posting regularly on my blog over there , but won't be putting everything out on the web for free, as I've been doing on this site. They are all suggesting that they need the tests to find qualified students of color, or low-income students. Is that true? If all 100 were the same, you'd have a value of 0.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

I may do some consulting after I retire, via Enrollment VP and the companion blog. (I I hope I surprised a few people and confounded a few more, and I hope the data here made a difference in the lives of a few students, parents, or counselors. I guess this means I'll be doing requests, after all.)

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

By David Lam, Activities Officer at the Students’ Union Bath. I think this is the journey most undertake or are pointed towards as we were told that university students almost always earn more than those without one. Students are very time-poor as they juggle studies, paid work and extracurricular activities.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As an illustration, we commend the University of Oxford for clear guidance that addresses applicants’ misunderstanding of the advice to ‘ stand out from the crowd ’: Students sometimes feel that they need to say something dramatic to stand out from the crowd and be really memorable in their personal statement but this is not true.

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The PIE News

MARCH 6, 2025

For years, UK universities have relied on international students as a critical revenue stream. Yet, the cost of recruiting these students has skyrocketed raising serious questions about the financial sustainability of the current model. Volume hunters Prioritise enrolments at the expense of net revenue per student.

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Liaison International

JANUARY 2, 2025

. “Flipping the funnel” shifts the focus from mass marketing to building meaningful, tailored connections with students, ensuring better matches and higher retention rates. Student personas and data analytics enable institutions to craft targeted messaging that resonates with individual student goals.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 18, 2024

More than two decades ago, I advocated enabling students to follow the evolving developments and topics in the classes I taught through news blogs. I called the concept semester without end.

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HEPI

APRIL 21, 2025

The APPG for Students has launched the Commission on Students in Higher Education as a means of feeding into the Department for Educations HE Review through a student-centred lens. Alex Stanley is Vice President Higher Education of the National Union of Students (NUS).

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HEPI

MAY 5, 2025

The blog below has been kindly written for HEPI by Justin Woods , UK Director at ApplyBoard (X: @ApplyBoard ). Policy changes in 2024 reshaped the UKs international education landscape, leading to significant shifts in student mobility. This high point was partly driven by post-pandemic disruptions to global student mobility.

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Liaison International

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Key Takeaways: Aligning student goals with academic opportunities fosters meaningful engagement, retention, and long-term success at community colleges. Simplifying choices and using accessible language help students define their objectives and select programs that align with their true interests.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

APRIL 9, 2025

Strategies for Each Stage of the Enrollment Journey Higher education institutions face many challenges in their efforts to engage with potential students and keep them motivated while they navigate the enrollment process. The challenge that universities face during this stage is: How do we reach as many potential students as possible?

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HEPI

MARCH 12, 2025

This HEPI blog was authored by Isabelle Bristow , Managing Director UK and Europe at Studiosity. We have recently commissioned a further YouGov survey to explore the motivations, emotions, and needs of over 2,200 students from 151 universities in the UK. 64% of all students have used AI tools to help with assignments or study tasks.

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IHEP

MARCH 4, 2025

These include the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) and its longitudinal follow-up study of the outcomes of first-time college students, the Beginning Postsecondary Study (BPS). By analyzing these data, we gain a better understanding of how these factors vary across different student characteristics.

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Academe Blog

APRIL 28, 2025

By Matthew Boedy University of North Georgia police log from April 8, 2025 On April 8th our school had a gun incident that involved a student making threats against the campus. Staff, students, and faculty on the campus where the incident occured received an email about an hour after it quickly ended. That is inaccurate.

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HEPI

APRIL 16, 2025

Accent Bias in Higher Education UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have a diverse population, encompassing students and staff from numerous linguistic backgrounds. Yet this linguistic diversity is often overlooked in university strategies, discourse, and practices , and students report experiencing accent-based stigmatisation.

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HEPI

APRIL 28, 2025

It also creates uncertainty for students making decisions on their university choices, in both an emotional and logistical way. So, what challenges do university advisers face when advising students in the current climate? Before application When students are considering their higher education options, research is crucial.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MARCH 26, 2025

Reading Time: 11 minutes Student retention is one of the most critical challenges faced by colleges and universities. While recruitment is essential to maintaining a thriving institution, keeping students engaged and enrolled until they complete their programs is just as vital. Why is that? Lets explore ten of them together!

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Today's Learner

APRIL 24, 2025

According to recent Cengage research , 92% of higher ed instructors and 83% of students say its important to include AI literacy in courses, partly because 84% of students believe AI skills proficiency is important for future employment. This process not only deepens their understanding but also sharpens their analytical skills.

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IHEP

MARCH 10, 2025

The recent cancellation of critical postsecondary studies conducted by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) will have dire effects on our understanding of the realities of todays college students especially those who are veterans, parents, working, or first-generation. No other sources are as robust in this regard.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

APRIL 9, 2025

These methods allow your institution to showcase real experiences, highlight student voices, and differentiate itself from competitors in an increasingly crowded educational landscape. Our expert digital marketing services can help you attract and enroll more students! Struggling with enrollment? Contact HEM today!

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JANUARY 29, 2025

This comprehensive guide explores the power of video marketing for schools , the types of video content that work best for student recruitment, strategies for success, and solutions to common challenges. Finally, video content creates a multisensory experience that helps prospective students visualize themselves at the institution.

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HEPI

APRIL 22, 2025

Amira Asantewa is Director of Programmes, Grit Breakthrough Programmes Reuel Blair is Lead Diversity Programmes Coordinator at the Centre for Student and Community Engagement, Nottingham Trent University Progress on the Black-white degree awarding gap has gone into reverse. And the students tell us what this looks like.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 17, 2024

(Or, why students get the halls they want but cant afford rather than the ones they dont and can.) He previously held roles at London School of Economics as Director of Residential Services and at iQ Student Accommodation as Commercial Director. Since 2014/15, the number of full-time international students has risen 81%.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

That’s exactly what today’s students expect from their college application experience. Gen Z and Gen Alpha students have grown up in a digital world, with all its associated benefits. This is why having a well-designed student portal is more important than ever. Try the HEM Student Portal!

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

One sign of a healthy functioning student democracy is the presence of a sharp, quick-moving student newspaper. Often presented as a training ground for the country’s future journalists, the student press plays an important role in keeping UK universities and their various institutions to account.

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Today's Learner

APRIL 8, 2025

Reading Time: 2 minutes Since launching the Student Assistant in beta last year, weve been working with thousands of faculty and students to train it and bring a personalized learning experience to more students. We want to support students to not only understand what theyre learning, but apply course concepts with confidence.

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HEPI

MARCH 2, 2025

Millions of international students have used the ApplyBoard platform to search for international study opportunities. [1] 1] For many of these students, searching for courses in Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States is one of the first steps in their study abroad journey.

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HEPI

JANUARY 24, 2025

As an educator, I believe that AI has lowered the barriers to accessing knowledge and education, enabling more students, especially those who previously lacked opportunities to benefit. AI enables educators to focus on the most critical aspect of their workteaching and mentoring students rather than merely delivering courses.

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MindMax

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This blog post was written based on a conversation between Lee Maxey and Jim Fong, Chief Research Officer at UPCEA. As Jim Fong, Chief Research Officer of UPCEA, discusses with MindMax’s Lee Maxey, institutions must carefully evaluate demographic shifts, student preferences, and economic trends to stay ahead.

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Coursera blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

AI in Education empowers university and high school educators with essential GenAI knowledge and provides practical strategies to streamline and enhance teaching while enabling students to develop AI skills. Design and test AI assignments for students. It has been remarkable to see Wharton embrace OpenAI’s tools across the institution.

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HEPI

APRIL 6, 2025

HEPIs recent report, One Step Beyond , offers an excellent analysis of an important topic how ready are students for higher education? I say it is heartening as, while these areas are all incredibly important, they are not always areas students recognise the importance of while at school. Of course, each students experience is unique.

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Liaison International

JANUARY 23, 2025

Key Takeaways: Personalized, timely, and relevant communication is key to engaging prospective students and meeting enrollment goals in higher education. Omnichannel outreach, using a mix of email, SMS, print, and digital platforms, enhances visibility and builds trust by meeting students where they are.

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HEPI

APRIL 27, 2025

In December 2024, HEPI and Uoffer Global published How can UK universities improve their strategies for tackling integration challenges among Chinese students? In this blog, academics at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester give their thoughts on the report. Many of these are students from China.

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Today's Learner

APRIL 14, 2025

Reading Time: < 1 minute Melissa Reid , Department Chair at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, was concerned that students in her developmental math course were lacking critical support from her previous publisher and online learning platform , resulting in discouragingly low pass rate numbers. we were blown away.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Yesterday, Wednesday 26th February, HEPI and Kortext published the Student Generative AI Survey 2025: you can read that here. Clarity and consistency thats what students want. LSE: Student use of AI At LSE, student use of GenAI has been the focus of a major research project, GENIAL.

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