The PIE News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A think tank run by the government of India has set the ambition of enrolling half a million international students in its universities before 2047. The NEP 2020 is dedicated to establishing India as a leading global hub for education. To realise this vision, a comprehensive set of tangible measures is being implemented.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2023

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. Some of it has been documented. No one has documented the full-length of the terrain. Online robocolleges have replaced traditional universities with little information about their value or effectiveness.

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University Business

MARCH 26, 2024

While SARA has helped nearly 2 million students enroll online in well-known online institutions, like the University of Phoenix and Western Governors University, the agreement has deeply limited state oversight. “It would be a real shame to see those opportunities disappear because of legal red tape.”

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

Just ten years ago, in the words of Wired magazine, Sebastian Thrun declared that ‘ In 50 years … there will be only ten institutions in the world delivering higher education ’. There are well-documented challenges with a full return to high-stakes exams, but we need to weigh up the different options carefully.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

Stakeholders in UK higher education are exploring a range of potential funding models for undergraduate education, against a backdrop of financial sustainability concerns, course cuts and redundancies for higher education institutions. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain. .

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The three-year effort, announced today, will involve working with up to 30 California colleges and universities, with a focus on campuses located in regions that suffered economic losses during the pandemic. California Reconnect will be modeled on an approach by ProjectAttain!,

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LSE Higher Education Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

As the university is reinvented by education entrepreneurs across the world, Bryan Penprase and Noah Pickus consider some of the tricky issues founders face, in this excerpt from The New Global Universities Higher education is a complex environment in which simple solutions often end up dashed on the rocks.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The TransferBOOST Affordability Financial Tool , developed by rpk GROUP in collaboration with HCM Strategists and the Institute for Higher Education Policy, provides step-by-step guidance on how institutions can understand more about the return on investment of better serving students who transfer and are mobile.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Complaints typically come from students or employees who think their institution has violated an accreditation standard or policy. SACSCOC requires complaints in writing, professional transcripts that have been notarized for audio recordings and two copies of all supporting documents, per the brief.

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SRHE

MARCH 19, 2025

Government-defined Levels of higher education include Levels 4 and 5, placing degrees at Level 6, with postgraduate Masters at 7 and doctorates at 8. Some of these deliver higher education in partnership with other providers which have their own degree-awarding powers, relying on them to provide their students with degrees.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Image: The Florida Department of Education and the chancellor of the State University System of Florida gathered the leaders of nearly 40 state institutions in Tallahassee Dec. Inside Higher Ed contacted more than 20 colleges and universities seeking details about last week’s meeting. First, the U.S.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I am delighted that the organisation I work for, the Higher Education Policy Institute, is publishing today’s report with Unipol. Only one-quarter of private providers and, more surprisingly perhaps, under one-half of universities are currently ‘innovating in the area of affordability (for example, new design, stock types or tenure)’.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

That’s how the University of Virginia’s student government, student newspaper and a student group, the University Democrats , have described a new member of the university’s Board of Visitors, Bert Ellis, in separate but critical statements over the last several months. Image: Reckless. Reprehensible.

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The PIE News

MARCH 26, 2024

One scenario it puts forward is a university accepting students on visiting scholarships funded by their home government where “scholars must accept the principles of the ruling party of [their home] country”. Depending on the circumstances, these arrangements may undermine free speech and academic freedom at [the university].

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

I hope a good example of how we’ve tried to maintain our independence at HEPI since that time is the sort of documents that we publish: we are unlike the bigger and more political think tanks based in London, which tend to push one part of the political spectrum, as we publish reports from across the board.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy More than 80 percent of U.S. colleges and universities do not require applicants to take standardized tests like the SAT or the ACT. That proportion of institutions with test-optional policies has more than doubled since the spring of 2020. That includes the entire University of California system.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This work led to the publication of a long-term planning document called One Oberlin , which the general faculty and the board voted to approve in 2019. Starting in 2018, for instance, several faculty members said, the faculty helped the college avoid budget-related program cuts via an academic and administrative program review.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

Today’s HEPI blog is the text of a speech by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to a joint meeting of the Senate and Council at Lancaster University. It is a great pleasure to be back at Lancaster University. Back to the future I hope you will let me begin with some history.

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Model Higher Education Policy Degree 141

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The purpose of the age-old course syllabus remains the same — a crucial document that sets the foundation for a course by providing students with essential information, outlining expectations, and serving as a reference point throughout the semester. university policies and procedures) as presented is also decolonized.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Image: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Academic Senate approved guidelines for departmental statements on political subjects earlier this month. The guidelines are friendlier to departmental utterances about internal matters, namely the unit’s core academic research, teaching and university policy.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2023

If it decides a provider ‘must do better’ in meeting its ‘outcomes’ requirements, the Office for Students can remove it from its Register, take away its degree-awarding powers and its university title or impose a monetary penalty, with the provider paying the costs of its investigation, with internal appeal only against the scale of the costs.

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Students Higher Education Degree Policy 72

HEPI

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Professor Mark Sterling, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Birmingham, and Dr Lia Blaj-Ward , Associate Professor (Teaching & Scholarship) at Nottingham Trent University. Some months into writing our book we came across Chris Brink’s The Soul of a University (2018).

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Yet this group has attracted limited considerations from researchers and policy-makers alike. Against this background, our study sought to explore the experiences of ancillary staff working in UK universities and their contribution to the higher education sector. Lucie Wheeler is a Research Assistant in education.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The HEC's primary role is to evaluate and accredit higher education institutions and programs, providing students with a reliable benchmark for the quality of their education. The HEC is concerned with university affairs from a variety of perspectives, including administrative, scientific, research, and students.

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SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

When I access the 2014 results the four profiles – overall, outputs, impact, environment – are listed on four separate documents, within which English HEIs are listed first, then Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The brief description of the moderation process in Education suggests that this may have been repeated. My bad, perhaps.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Senate Bill 1, dubbed the Advance Ohio Higher Education Act, cleared the chamber with a 21-11 vote earlier this week, marking a decisive move by Republican lawmakers who claim the measure will combat what they describe as liberal indoctrination at universities.

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HESA

MAY 26, 2023

If you’re in North America, you know that one of the perennial debates in higher education finance is about the efficacy of performance-based funding, or PBF, with the bulk of the academic evidence suggesting in one way or another that such schemes do not achieve their purported aims.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: The Education Department is planning to use undercover agents—known as “secret shoppers”—to monitor colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid for potentially deceptive practices. The department’s decision to use secret shoppers is “four decades overdue,” he said.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Martin Williams is Chair of the University of Cumbria and a former higher education policy official in the Department for Education. To illustrate, my own institution (University of Cumbria) is required by its governing documents to operate as a charity for the benefit of education in Cumbria.That is why we were created.

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Engineering Higher Education Recruitment Institution 68

SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The simple truth is that the average student leaves university with £45,800 of debt and if they have nothing to show for it then we have failed them” (Hansard, 2021). by Peter Wolstencroft, Elizabeth Whitfield and Track Dinning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

Although the guidance, which takes the form of a Dear Colleague letter and a seven-page question and answer document, does not have the force of law, it still matters, according to Dr. Liliana Garces, the W.K. Kellogg Professor of Community College Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Liliana Garces, the W.K.

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GlobalHigherEd

JANUARY 14, 2018

Morshidi was the former Director-General of Higher Education Malaysia, and is now Director of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Facility (CTEF) based at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. Morshidi is also a Senior Research Fellow at the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN), Universiti Sains Malaysia.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: As recently as 2015, the University of Phoenix enrolled more than 400,000 learners, making it not only the center of the for-profit higher education universe but the biggest university in the United States by far. Inside Higher Ed : It’s important for us to stipulate just how much we don’t know.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Image: The University of California system has never had any fully online undergraduate degree programs at any of its 10 campuses. That loophole was closed this month when the University of California Academic Senate approved Senate Regulations 610 and 630, which instituted an undergraduate residency requirement.

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Degree University Arts And Sciences Equity 142

The PIE News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The BBC is reporting that it is an “open secret” that international students with limited English proficiency can easily enrol in UK university courses, as well as cases of students exploiting illegal loopholes such as paying others to complete coursework or attend lectures on their behalf.

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Recruitment Higher Education University Leadership Educational Policy 119

SRHE

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

These studies involved a total of 11,790 participants and assessed 9,992 university programmes and courses. Similarly, Language and Linguistics, Mass Communication and Documentation, and Social Sciences collectively represented only 12% of the reviewed studies. Creative Arts and Design with just 2% was also a niche area.

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Higher Education Education Arts And Sciences Environment 56

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The decision comes at a time when universities nationwide are struggling to balance competitive athletics programs with federal equity requirements. The timing of the announcement has raised questions among education policy experts, as many institutions have already begun implementing policies based on the Biden administration's guidance.

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