HEPI

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

If this is a tenet of the Conservative approach to education, then one might assume the lengthy period of Conservative-led governments since 2010 would have ushered in a more diverse higher education sector by stimulating more independent provision. Yet today there are only 422 registered providers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The potential for community college students and adults with some college credit to obtain a future degree is limited by a higher education system that has not fully embraced the many pathways today’s learners take to complete a degree, according to a new white paper from the Center for Higher Education Policy and Practice’s (CHEPP).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

A new Data Points series is providing insights into the impacts of community college bachelor’s degree education and increasingly diverse populations and their career prospects.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The detrimental ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education won’t be going away any time soon, and student mental health is becoming an increasingly urgent issue, according to a recent EAB report. Lower K-12 test scores extend back to elementary school and foretell heightened demand on academic support staff.

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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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HEPI

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Higher Education and Research Act of 2017 (HERA) asserts that both the Secretary of State and the Office for Students ‘must have regard to the need to protect the institutional autonomy of English higher education providers’. There is now an enormous range of ‘higher education providers’.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The Higher Education & Research Act 2017 (HERA) was conceived in a different policy age. It was an enactment of the ideas put forward in 2016 by Jo Johnson, then Universities Minister, in the White Paper, Success as a Knowledge Economy. Several more highly innovative providers are known to be in planning stage. .

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HEPI

AUGUST 1, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Roger Brown, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Policy and former Vice-Chancellor of Southampton Solent University. By the start of the twenty-first century though, that had changed and there was a role for a specialist higher education think tank.

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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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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Kortext colleagues attended events around the world, from Bangkok to Berlin and Rwanda to Rome, culminating in the ‘Oscars of higher education’, the THE Awards in Liverpool. Our vision is to enable and enrich the higher education of tomorrow and help all students fulfil their potential through digital teaching and learning solutions.”

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Helix Education

MAY 15, 2024

To that end, I’ve been working a white paper (to be published in June) that will lay out more than a dozen strategies that institutions can use to build alternative revenue (student) streams. Sources: Actual and Projected College Freshmen: Digest of Education Statistics 2016, 2020, 2022. Empowering higher education.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The value of play in the learning process and in the classroom has been well-studied and documented in early childhood education, but for a variety of reasons, once students reach higher grades, we see less and less playfulness. If so, this belief seems to compound at the time of a student’s entrance to college.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The value of play in the learning process and in the classroom has been well-studied and documented in early childhood education, but for a variety of reasons, once students reach higher grades, we see less and less playfulness. If so, this belief seems to compound at the time of a student’s entrance to college.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Kelly Heuer and I have been collaborating in the context of my college’s portfolio of online programs on the edX platform. In our work together, I’ve been impressed with Kelly’s understanding of academic culture paired with her deep expertise in learning science.

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HEPI

JANUARY 10, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Rob Stroud, Director of Quality Assessment, England at the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. Independent providers are incredibly diverse, and very rarely look like the stereotypical multi-faculty institution that the words ‘higher education’ typically bring to mind.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The sudden onset of the COVID-19 pandemic made digital literacy more urgent than ever on college campuses. By now, remote learning and nonverbal communication with educators and peers have become routine for students of all backgrounds. Research from the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that 72.7

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of digital capability in higher education by delving into key findings from our collaborative white paper with Wonkhe. Learning and teaching professional, FE college. Together, we can shape a future where digital capability empowers success in higher education and beyond.

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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 Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

7 November · Episode 180 A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model 36 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton This conversation–rooted in the findings of E&Y white paper: How are you balancing the books for a digital future? covers the global shift in Higher Education.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Higher-education leaders are seeking better representation and support for diverse student populations. Others may have English speaking skills, but not to the extent college-level curriculums often demand. Higher education is shifting toward ‘nontraditional’ learners. Some may not speak English at home.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Download the white paper. In our most recent white paper , we’ve laid out nine steps to enroll more underrepresented students in a high-level framework that covers each stage of the enrollment funnel. Improve your diversity strategy. Use these guidelines to recruit and enroll more underrepresented students. .

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

31 October · Episode 179 Beyond Ideas: Implementing Innovative Structures in Higher Education 38 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Implementing innovative structures in higher education is not an option; it's a necessity. President Mantella's approach is a how-to guide.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 31, 2022

One of the two slides Phil shared out was further confirmation of a trend that everyone in higher education has already been struggling with: Coursera, like US higher education institutions, has seen a decline in degree program enrollments. Coursera as a marketplace. Coursera sees evolution ahead.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

In 2023, WCET will look at Artificial Intelligence (AI) and provide support and resources to help you break through the rhetoric and understand both the promises and perils of AI in higher education. What Does All of This Mean for Higher Education? Why, as a society, should we care about the release of ChatGPT?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

Please see the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board’s full white paper on this topic here. Interviews with a broader group of accreditors and a literature review supplemented our engagement with WSCUC and its members. Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this diversity newsletter?:

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Awardees are chosen from among the colleges, universities, and individuals that use Navigate , EAB’s student success management system, or Starfish , the student success platform EAB acquired in 2021. Congratulations to our 2022 winners: Technology Pioneer Award: Bakersfield College. York Technical College. Sierra College.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

There is more responsibility than ever for college faculty to deliver outstanding instruction in the classroom. With less than half of students who enter four-year colleges finishing within six years, they assert that faculty cannot be allowed to simply just be the expert in their field in the classroom.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Blogs 5 areas for community college leaders to take stock in 2023 And resources to help sustain your post-pandemic momentum Now that community colleges have weathered the storm of the pandemic, it’s time to take a moment to recognize all you have accomplished, and then to begin to steer the transition from a “crisis” mindset to a sustainability one.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

There is more responsibility than ever for college faculty to deliver outstanding instruction in the classroom. With less than half of students who enter four-year colleges finishing within six years, they assert that faculty cannot be allowed to simply just be the expert in their field in the classroom.

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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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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Irish language colleges have reiterated their concerns about the proposed learner protection fund that will be introduced with the International Education Mark, following the release of new draft policy documents. . An outline of the insurance scheme has previously been hinted at and discussed in private with language schools.

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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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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Interested in the Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship? I am so grateful for the wonderful resources provided by EAB to support this effort, inclusive of the EAB white paper, “Breaking the Advising Stalemate—Building a Consistent Advising Experience to Address Students’ Needs”, 2022.

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Helix Education

AUGUST 28, 2024

That news, combined with findings in RNL’s forthcoming white paper on “ Two Demographic Cliffs ,” set us up well for our discussion about enrollment health. Phil Hill : By and large people want colleges and universities to succeed. Phil Hill : Several of the headwinds are outside the control of higher education institutions.

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Today I’m thrilled to help kick off our Frontiers and WCET Steering Committee working group series on equity and quality in higher education digital learning. The coronavirus pandemic acted as a megaphone for the inequity of our current education systems.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to helping set an editorial agenda for our research publications (see here , and here , and here for past examples), this work gives us a unique read on what’s happening in higher education markets around the country.

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