Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The episode focuses less on the possible sale of Phoenix—about which details remain sketchy—than on the overall state of for-profit institutions, the changing definition of “for-profit” in higher education and how to regulate the increasingly blurry landscape of postsecondary education and training.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Natalie Youngbull, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Oklahoma. When that’s in place, they feel student success is definitely impacted—the students feel like they belong and can thrive there, and they have multiple people checking in on them,” said Youngblood.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Like many others with an interest in higher education policy, HEPI Director Nick Hillman swung by Liverpool for a sojourn at the Labour Party Conference. At pretty much any Labour Party conference of the past few years, you could find higher education policy wonks sat in a corner looking dazed and confused.

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The PIE News

JUNE 7, 2024

alliance gaining 232 seats , could lead to a more balanced approach towards education policies on the domestic and international front, according to stakeholders. “A A balanced parliament can foster bipartisan support for comprehensive reforms, focusing on enhancing quality, accessibility, and innovation in higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

The criteria, which were expected to be finalized later this month following consultation, clarify the rules for international universities setting up Indian campuses, a shift first announced in the 2020 National Education Policy (NEP).

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HEPI

JULY 16, 2024

The new Labour Government quite rightly has a strong focus on economic growth and new higher education policies should seek to support this central goal. What follows are some initial thoughts that aim to foster a debate and fill the current policy vacuum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2023

“These folks have clearly shown some interest in college-going,” said Dr. Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “If If you’re thinking about helping to equalize college enrollment, it may be easier to get them over the hurdle.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Now, new research—one of the largest educational studies ever performed—has revealed both the power and the limits of these programs: direct admissions led to more students applying to college, but it did not mean that more of them would actually enroll. Non-first-generation students were 2.5 points likelier to apply, compared to 3.2

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 7, 2024

In this episode of the Changing Higher Ed podcast, Tom Netting, President of TEN Government Strategies, joins Drumm to provide a comprehensive update on the latest developments in higher education policy.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Andrew Boggs, Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies and University Clerk at Kingston University.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The authors skilfully bring together various definitions of employability found in the literature and identify themes beyond individual characteristics that play a key role in the employability of an individual. They argue that the responsibility for employability does not lie solely with the student, pointing to Cheng et al.’s

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SRHE

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The expansion of the private sector was encouraged by changes in education policy and the growth of the middle class, which began to demand more places in higher education. However, in the 1990s, enrolment in the private HE sector in Brazil surpassed that of the public sector.

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SRHE

MARCH 19, 2025

With the expansion of Professional Services has gone a shift from an assumption that this forms a Civil Service role to its definition as administrative or managerial. The opportunity was taken to emphasise the professionalism of the service. Serving of the academic community may now allow a degree of control.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JULY 19, 2023

Siân Lawrence, Julian Preece, Chris Townsend, Ann Lynch and Richard Mountford on Rishi Sunak’s plan to cap student numbers for some university courses Rishi Sunak’s definition of a “low-value” degree – one that doesn’t lead to a graduate job, postgraduate studies or starting a business – has a very narrow focus ( Sunak to force English universities (..)

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

At least seventy institutions, said one guest at a recent Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) roundtable with Lloyds Banking Group in Edinburgh, referencing statements from Universities UK , are making significant staff cuts while 40% of English providers are posting a deficit.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

There are currently 159 Australian providers classified as NUHEPs – a small increase of 155 from 2023, but up from 137 in 2011.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy. The 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows a 16.1

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HEPI

JANUARY 18, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Pat Tissington , Academic Director (Employability and Skills) at the University of Warwick and Dr Pat Mertova , Consultant in Higher Education and Policy at the Associates in Higher Education Policy, Development and Quality (AHEPDQ).

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HEPI

JULY 28, 2023

The speech looks at the state of higher education in summer 2023 and ahead to the next general election, due in 2024 (or, less likely, 2025). First, despite working in higher education policy for well over 15 years and despite having visited nearly every UK university, I have never visited the University of Wolverhampton before.

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HEPI

JUNE 24, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Higher Education Policy Institute. The StREAM solution, which aggregates data from multiple purposeful educational activities from across the university to provide a definitive picture of student engagement.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has 20 years’ experience in education policy research. The Labour Party is ahead in the polls and has been since December 2021.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 6, 2023

” The initial National Education Policy 2020 had planned to allow top 100 universities to operate in India, and has attracted some interest. A survey of the top 200 THE-ranked institutions in 2021 found that eight would “definitely consider” a branch campus in India.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With specific reference to education-focused pathways, we note the use of ‘scholarship’ in some career frameworks to differentiate between these pathways and teaching-only roles.

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HESA

APRIL 4, 2023

Last month, Andreas Schleicher, the head of the OECD’s Education Directorate, gave a lecture to the Higher Education Policy Institute in London and made a series of statements around micro-credentials which were both accurate and at the same time seriously naïve. These very definitely aren’t new offerings.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

What are the implications of this analysis for Governor DeSantis’ higher education policy initiatives? Banning the teaching of critical race theory, for example, is clearly and definitively a prohibited effort to “prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

” A “group of faculty,” added Burbules, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, “is not the same thing as a department. And that was the distinction that really kind of started us off down this road.”

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In comparison with its threatening mass of detailed rules for providers the OfS definition of required ‘outcomes’ affecting students (student continuation beyond a first year; progression to completion; gaining employment) is found to be ‘simplistic and narrow’.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And I would say, “Well, thanks, Elizabeth Warren, it definitely does not cost that much anymore. Michael Itzkowitz 17:43 It definitely gives some weight to question of if the Department is limited in its ability to focus on a specific type of institution. If you do the math, finishing a degree in four years is $60,000 on average.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The lawsuit specifically challenges the orders' lack of clear definitions for terms such as "DEI," "equity," and "illegal DEIA," arguing that this vagueness makes compliance virtually impossible for institutions while potentially exposing them to significant federal enforcement actions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2023

Before 2011, Brown was a senior research associate at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University. There, she led studies and evaluations focused on education and post-high school programs within the United States and across Europe. So those are definitely barriers.

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University Business

MARCH 24, 2023

Nearly half (49%) of those students who are reportedly not planning to attend a Florida state school cited his education policies as the main reason. Of all the surveyed students enrolled in a public college, 5% are “definitely” or “probably” thinking about transferring due to DeSantis’ policies.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Higher education leaders must also be aware of the policy context in their state. Unlike the federal government, which must often use its spending power to influence education policy due to its historically limited authority over education, state governments have more direct control over substantive education policy.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

“This was the very definition of how not to make policy,” said senator Mehreen Faruqi of the Greens – one of the Bill’s most vocal critics, who has often described it as a migration bill disguised as education policy. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Inside Higher Ed : Is a definition of “value” laid out in federal statute anywhere? But is it where we should stay, or should we ultimately be building out a broader definition of value? McCann: The value of higher education goes far beyond what’s easily quantifiable.

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HEPI

MARCH 29, 2025

No one suggests that Open University graduates do not have real degrees, even though they by definition eschew the entire student experience. The Higher Education Policy Institute and Which study highlighted variations between similar courses in different institutions. I wouldnt knock it; I enjoyed it myself.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

By FIRE’s definition, that does not qualify as censorship; the organization believes independent student newspapers can make whatever decisions they want about what to publish and who can join their staff. More often than not, the papers’ content revolves around the local community or their campus.

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University Business

JULY 6, 2023

Across the country, new education policies took effect on July 1st, the beginning of the new fiscal year in most states. A handful of them tackle some of the most pressing issues K12 and higher education leaders face today, including school safety and inclusion.

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