Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

college enrollment is a lingering concern for both educators and policy makers. College and university student enrollment is down for the third straight year, 7% lower than it was in 2019. The prevalence of “Help Wanted” signs may have led some people to believe that further education and training may no longer be necessary.

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HEPI

APRIL 4, 2023

On 22 June 2023, John Cater will complete three decades as the Director and Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University, rendering him the longest-serving head of a higher education institution in the UK. HEPI is marking the occasion by publishing his thoughts on higher education in 2030. Thirty years ago, I was a geographer.

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HEPI

JANUARY 25, 2023

You would be hard pressed to find someone in either the higher education sector or Westminster willing to argue that the current funding system for universities is working well. In the last month, a number of colleges have had to suspend negotiations with private sector lending partners as they can no longer seek commercial borrowing.

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HEPI

MAY 27, 2024

The role that Higher Education institutions play in delivering the green skills needed to support the green workforce transformation.is Many Higher Education institutions are already going beyond traditional programmes to plug key gaps in the green workforce. often not given much coverage.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

I understand the appeal – the community college system and the transferable nature of credit are much more embedded within the United States than in the UK, even if each state takes a slightly different approach. Finding a way forward feels particularly pertinent right now.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This article was kindly authored for HEPI by Peter Scott, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Studies at UCL and Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University between 1998 and 2010. There are two puzzles about UK higher education in the late summer of 2024. The solutions?

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2023

Exclusive: Report reveals postcode lottery as barely half FE institutions offer some form of language teaching Business groups and language experts are calling on ministers to make linguistic skills a core part of vocational training, after research found young people are unable to study languages at large numbers of further education colleges.

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HEPI

MARCH 24, 2025

While elements of competition remain, the reintegration of the sector into the Department for Education presents new opportunities for colleges and universities to enhance their contributions to local communities. We need government to develop a national framework within which local skills and innovation strategies can be developed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2024

The intersectionality of race and gender cannot be ignored when assessing how college onboarding forces assimilation, stripping Black men of their identity to ensure they are more palpable to society at large. Everything from culture to appearance informs mode of presentation, acceptance, and likelihood of impact.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 29, 2024

Planet Education Networks , a network of universities, partners and affiliates, said this deal will not only broaden its portfolio but significantly bolster the offering available to local and international students in Ireland.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For the time being, John Cater is the longest-serving Vice-Chancellor in UK higher education, having held his current post for approaching 32 years. You may well ask, What has this to do with higher education? But are we seeing this in higher education too? Is this relevant to higher education?

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Inspection covered cross-college issues and day-to-day teaching and management. Every sixth-form college and FE college was supported by a nominated full-time FEFC inspector, visiting at least once a term. The visits would focus on issues of concern to the college or the inspectorate. Continue reading.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Tej Nathwani, Principal Researcher (Economist) at HESA, the Higher Education Statistics Agency. For the sector, the question this has raised is; How might (higher) education play a role in helping to tackle the twin challenge of poor productivity and high inequality?

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

This blog has been kindly written by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of London Higher, the representative body for more than 40 universities and higher education colleges across the capital.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 20, 2022

First, providers have been asked to develop plans to diversify pathways into and through higher education, including the development of apprenticeships. With regard to diversifying pathways into and through higher education, this is neither a surprising nor an unwelcome priority.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Nevertheless, we know that most young people interact with education settings at least until the age of 18, meaning that higher and further education settings can be primary actors in driving change. Education was a significant theme. Through this project we attempted to calculate the number of EYPs in the UK.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Such subcontractual partnerships – while presenting several benefits for students and higher education institutions (HEIs) alike – also present risks, according to an Office for Students (OfS) insights document published on September 3.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The students attending Regent College London told investigators from England’s higher education regulator that teaching staff changed frequently, including one cover tutor who “arrived almost half an hour late” to host an online class and “was clearly travelling or in a public place”. Continue reading.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 30, 2024

As well as rejoining the scheme, Erasmus+ funding should be reinstated to further education colleges and community organisations. The Conservative government said it would raise immigration fees – including for international students – to fund public sector pay rises last year.

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The PIE News

MAY 7, 2023

But, after the Scottish government reversed a decision to allocate £46m to colleges and universities “without warning” on May 3, there is pressure on the government – and its new leader Humza Yousaf – to release a plan on how it plans to fund higher education in Scotland.

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The PIE News

JULY 3, 2023

The report , which aims to give “a pioneering overview” of the different channels through which international students enter UK undergraduate education, found that in 2021/22, almost half (46%) of all applicants submitted individual applications directly through UCAS’s online system.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Until now it has been the only north east London borough without a higher education institute. Discussions have been had with local colleges, particularly around what students on further education programs are studying and how the launch of the new campus can work to complement that.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The IFS’s annual look at education spending reveals that further education and sixth form colleges could experience particular hardship, with rising numbers of students after steep cuts in funding until 2019, which have only been partially reversed by the government. Continue reading.

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HEPI

AUGUST 25, 2023

As we navigate these ‘in-between times’, we can forget the extraordinary impact that higher education, as a sector, and HEPI, as a think tank, has had over the last 20 years (as Bahram Bekhradnia and Roger Brown recount). On that basis two plausible scenarios come to mind.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The proposals of the Robbins Report on Higher Education considered the role of providers of tertiary education. It concluded that to ‘confer degree-giving powers on all the existing’ Further Education Colleges ‘would be inappropriate because of the number involved, the variation in their sizes and the diversity of standards’.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2023

As Americans’ perception of higher education continues to slide , research is showing that the youngest are the most skeptical. colleges, 14 points lower than the rate of Baby Boomers. It’s just so expensive to go to college,” she said. “A 80% cited the cost of tuition. A lot of Gen Z-ers are like, ‘Yikes.’”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The burden of student loan debt limits future finances of graduates of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). As such, college education is not fulfilling the promise of being a great equalizer and closing wealth gaps, according to a recent report.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The vice principal for curriculum at RNN Group, which runs three colleges in and around Rotherham in the UK, details the impact on students he has enrolled on esports courses. And the opportunity has already been picked up by international education. At least 170 colleges and universities in the US now have esports options.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The arrival of the ‘alternative provider’ In 1997 the Dearing Report saw diversity in British higher education institutions as an advantage ‘especially in providing for student choice; in programme and pedagogic innovation’ and ‘in the ability of the sector as a whole to meet the wide range of expectations now relevant to higher education’.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Beginning July 2023, over 700,000 incarcerated adults will become Pell Grant eligible , enabling qualified students to pursue federally funded college education for the first time since the 1990s. The History of Higher Ed for Incarcerated Students. There is strong interest among incarcerated students for educational programing.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Overall in the year up to Q3 2022, 146,473 visa applicants used CAS from Russell Group institutions, only marginally higher than the 145,947 in the year up to Q3 the previous year. Non-Russell Group CAS use saw a big jump, from 179,176 in the year to Q3 2021, to 272,357 in the year to Q3 2022. Click top right to make graph full screen].

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

When the Tories committed to cutting spending on higher education through increasing tuition fees, why did they not use some of the money saved to increase spending on further education (technical and vocational education) and nursery education?

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 20, 2023

Supporting Student Success in Higher Education: A Comprehensive Guide editor Thu, 07/20/2023 - 04:08 Higher education is an exciting and transformative journey, offering students a wealth of opportunities for personal growth and academic achievement. This is where Student Success in Higher Education peeps in.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Formed between 1969 and 1973, England’s polytechnics offered higher education courses in vocational areas. Created through mergers of colleges of technology, art, commerce and other specialist institutions, they offered full-time, sandwich and part-time courses. In 1979, funds for advanced further education were capped.

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The rise of online-only education has been a double-edged sword. While it has expanded access to higher education, it has also introduced a new breed of institutions (robocolleges), students (robostudents), and workers (roboworkers).

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

by Neil Raven Introduction In a previous blog , I explored the reasons why some students on level 3 (advanced) professional and applied courses decide against higher education. Those whose views were sought came from a further education college (FEC) located in the East Midlands.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. Half are nonwhite, and most (60 percent) are the first in their families to attend college. Others have fled wars in Syria or Ukraine. It’s a delicate balance.”

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