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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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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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A week on from the Labour Government’s first Budget, it is clear that its first 100 days have left universities, further education colleges, and apprenticeship providers in England in a state of uncomfortable anticipation.

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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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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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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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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

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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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

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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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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Liaison International

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Key Takeaways: Community colleges need to adopt student-centered enrollment and recruitment strategies to meet the expectations of modern students and improve retention. The higher education landscape is changing rapidly, particularly for community colleges.

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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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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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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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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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The PIE News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It appears to be all universities, public and private, and TAFEs which are government funded Technical and Further Education colleges. This means that course-level caps will still be applied to private colleges. The post Which are Table A and B institutions in Australia? appeared first on The PIE News.

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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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HEPI

MARCH 5, 2023

It was also designed to test how Higher Education Providers (HEPs) would develop, market and deliver short courses as well as to enable the Student Loans Company (SLC) to develop its systems to deal with applications for loans to fund study on modules. Repayment terms are identical to higher education undergraduate student loans.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This considered the demographic realities of applications to university, college, and apprenticeships – and what it meant for the system and our economy. We also made clear that in all likelihood there is a plateau and potential drop in higher education numbers after 2030. million adult further education students.

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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. I’ll tell you offline.

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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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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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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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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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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

If there is another 0.25% increase in the base rate, as is widely anticipated, this will place government and university finances under further pressure over the next few years with significant negative implications for HE students, the UK Government’s education budget in general and the further education college budget in particular.

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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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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It is palpably evident that centralisation under an Office for Students (established as primarily a Regulator but replacing the UGC and its successor body, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)) is running out of road. Policy had become centralised although institutional autonomy was pledged to be preserved.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Having returned from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool and dried out our shoes, bags and umbrellas, we round up the higher education themes we heard from three days of debate and discussion. The new Government is a big fan of higher education. Do we detect yet another enquiry into the future of higher education?)

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 16, 2024

Department of Education announced this week that it will grant more than $40 million to seven higher education institutions and organizations as part of its Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program.

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HEPI

APRIL 2, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Anna Anthony, Co-Director at the Higher Education Access Tracker (HEAT) Service. HEAT provides a collaborative system which enables member higher education providers to evaluate the work they deliver as part of their Access and Participation Plans as easily and efficiently as possible.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2022

As the Treasury attempts to balance the budget, government departments are on standby to identify spending cuts, but the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said any attempt to reduce spending in the 16-18 sector would “sit uncomfortably” with the government’s stated commitment to focus on skills and economic growth.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The polytechnics were designated in the 1960s as new institutions formed from existing technical and other colleges within the English further education system, and with one in Wales. In the 1960s Britain was facing an increase in demand for higher education and these new institutions would help meet this demand.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The new SRH International College will be based at SRH University campus in Heidelberg. I am confident that students joining SRH International College will enjoy a positive and rewarding experience,” he said. The college will begin welcoming its first international students from October next year.

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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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