The PIE News
MARCH 25, 2025
My recent article in The PIE News posed a critical question: is international student recruitment really worth it , especially when more than a quarter of UK universities earn less per international student after scholarships and discounts, but before direct recruitment costs than the maximum domestic tuition fee cap universities in England are allowed to charge?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 4, 2025
Dr. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy A coalition of 104 education organizations has called on Congress to immediately reverse the Department of Education's recent cancellation of several major teacher preparation grant programs, a move that has disrupted educator pipelines across the country and threatens to worsen the national teacher shortage crisis. The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) and the National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR), joined by 102 other education grou
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Academe Blog
MARCH 20, 2025
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following extraordinary statement was published today in the New York Review of Books and is reposted here with their permission. The statement’s signatories include virtually every leading First Amendment scholar in the country, conservative and liberal.
Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 27, 2025
Raising retention and attendance rates, and accommodating diverse student bodies, could take on existential importance as the number of traditional-age students falls.
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As Higher Ed institutions continue struggling with budget constraints and enrollment pressures, making smart decisions about technology is crucial. How do institutions enhance data security, optimize their tech stack and engage students effectively…all while managing limited resources? Bret Ingerman, former Vice President for Information Technology at Tallahassee State College, digs into these conundrums, exploring how Pathify offers solutions to enhance student engagement while giving instituti
Wonkhe
MARCH 9, 2025
Tony Moss, Esther Stimpson and Dave Phoenix highlight a deep inequity in the student support system that neither the DWP nor the Department for Education seem minded to fix
MindMax
MARCH 31, 2025
Kim Siegenthaler, former Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Strategy and Operations at CUNY, joins Lee Maxey to discuss how higher education can better connect with industry and government to support learner pathways. With 25 institutions under the CUNY umbrella, Siegenthaler emphasizes the importance of collaboration in building seamless transitions between credentials, degrees, and careers.
University Leadership Central brings together the best content for university leaders and administrators from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 27, 2025
Dr. Ted Mitchell A new report released by the American Council on Education (ACE) and the MSI Data Project at New York University reveals that Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) play a crucial role in advancing economic mobility for students of color, despite operating with limited resources.
The PIE News
MARCH 5, 2025
Internationally mobile students achieve higher degree classifications and have better job prospects, with Widening Participation students often outperforming both non-mobile peers and more advantaged counterparts, new UK research has signalled. The findings come from University UK International’s Gone international, a new generation report, which updates 2016 data to reflect the shifting mobility landscape post-Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 24, 2025
The plaintiffs allege that the executive branch has exceeded its constitutional authority and violated law after the president’s order to wind the agency down.
Wonkhe
MARCH 25, 2025
The Office for Students has published its investigation into the university that employed Kathleen Stock.
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The article addresses the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. It elucidates the SMC background, key assumptions, and the main pillars of the model to form a a change agent who could be helpful with institutional in-service delivery.
The Academic Designer
MARCH 3, 2025
On April 12, 2025, join Dr. Sheena Howard and Jennifer van Alstyne for a workshop on how to share your academic book and research effectively online. Are you open to enhancing your visibility and media presence? Sign up for this interactive virtual event.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
MARCH 4, 2025
Small language models, known as SLMs, create intriguing possibilities for higher education leaders looking to take advantage of artificial intelligence and machine learning. SLMs are miniaturized versions of the large language models (LLMs) that spawned ChatGPT and other flavors of generative AI. For example, compare a smartwatch to a desktop workstation (monitor, keyboard, CPU and mouse): The watch has a sliver of the computing muscle of the PC, but you wouldnt strap a PC to your wrist to monit
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 27, 2025
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) play a vital role in advancing educational opportunities for Latine students across the United States. As their numbers have surged to over 600 institutions, representing 20% of all colleges and universities nationwide, HSIs now enroll and advise two-thirds of all Latino undergraduates. This significant responsibility has prompted researchers to examine how these institutions prepare academic advisors to effectively serve their diverse student populations.
The PIE News
MARCH 27, 2025
While the UK remains the largest English language teaching (ELT) destination by student numbers, the sector is forecasting another year of flat if not declining enrolment, with schools urged to collaborate and focus on the experiences offered to students. We need to change what we do, and we cant just be English language, ES London director Niel Pama told delegates of The PIE Live Europe.
Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 25, 2025
The financial value of 4,600 colleges has been updated in a database from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.
Wonkhe
MARCH 10, 2025
Amer Alwarea calls for a rethink in how arts-led impact in the creative industries is recognised Amer Alwarea calls for a rethink in how arts-led impact in the creative industries is recognised
HEPI
MARCH 16, 2025
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by colleagues at the German Embassy in London and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). #ShoutOutForGerman this is the title of a week-long campaign from 17 to 21 March to showcase all things German across the entire UK and inspire learning German. The German Embassy London and the German Academic Exchange Service are only two of the organisations behind this campaign.
The Guardian - Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2025
Home Office told Manikarnika Dutta to quit Britain for spending too many days abroad for study A high-achieving academic has been threatened with deportation from the UK because the Home Office says she has spent too many days conducting her research requiring access to historic Indian archives stored in India. Manikarnika Dutta, 37, a historian, conducted the research as part of her academic commitments to the University of Oxford, which involved studying archives in cities in India and attendi
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 29, 2025
Dr. Gina Spivey-Brown In a historic appointment, Dr. Gina Spivey-Brown has been named the 12th president of Oakwood University, becoming the first woman to lead the historically Black Seventh-day Adventist institution in its 129-year history. Spivey-Brown, who currently serves as dean of Howard University's College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, will assume leadership on July 1, succeeding Dr.
The PIE News
MARCH 18, 2025
The findings come from a study conducted by the German Economic Institute (IW) on behalf of DAAD , which reveals the powerful economic boost international students bring to Germany. Around 405,000 international students are currently studying in Germany. The approximately 80,000 international students who began their studies with the intention of graduating in 2022 will pay almost 15.5 billion more in taxes and duties over the course of their lives than they receive in benefits from the German s
Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 27, 2025
The American Federation of Teachers sued the agency this month for blocking access to the congressionally mandated repayment options.
Wonkhe
MARCH 9, 2025
Moving the conversation on from hype and worry, Sue Attewell details the current range of use cases for AI in HE
HEPI
MARCH 11, 2025
Last September, the Prime Minister announced a rebalancing of funding from the apprenticeship levy (shortly to become the Growth and Skills Levy). Employers ability to use the funds for postgraduate-level apprenticeships would be restricted in the hope of shoring up lower levels. A couple of months later, Skills Minister Jacqui Smith followed up by confirming that the axing of Level 7 apprenticeships would be pretty widespread.
The Guardian - Higher Education
MARCH 26, 2025
Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become fascist dictatorship A Yale professor who studies fascism is leaving the US to work at a Canadian university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a fascist dictatorship. Jason Stanley, who wrote the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, has accepted a position at the University of Torontos Munk School of Global Affairs and
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 27, 2025
Sherrilyn Ifill Howard University has announced the establishment of the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy, a new initiative aimed at promoting the vision and values articulated in one of the Constitution's most transformative amendments. The center, which has been in development since 2023, will be housed at Howard University School of Law and will take a multidisciplinary approach to examining the 14th Amendment, connecting law, business, and the arts to advance understanding of its
The PIE News
MARCH 14, 2025
Canadas college sector has welcomed a recent policy change from the IRCC stating that graduates of college degree programs will now join university students in being exempted from PGWP field of study requirements announced in October 2024. At the time, the IRCC updated the eligibility criteria for students applying for a post-graduation work permit, allowing only college graduates from certain fields of study to apply for a PGWP, thus putting the college sector at a severe disadvantage.
Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 31, 2025
Conservative lawmakers in both states successfully pushed through the bills after failed attempts in previous years.
Wonkhe
MARCH 5, 2025
Amidst an NHS staffing crisis, Jill Morgan and Jon Down call for redefining resilience in healthcare education - focusing on community support, growth, and empowerment rather than mere survival
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
MARCH 18, 2025
When it comes to the ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence, colleges and universities are out in front. Many schools already look to AI to support teaching, learning, research, back-office functions and even physical security. At the same time, theyre being proactive and thoughtful in asking important questions about the responsible use of this powerful technology.
The Guardian - Higher Education
MARCH 26, 2025
Regulator accused of perpetuating culture wars after case of Kathleen Stock, who was targeted for views on gender Englands university regulator has been accused of perpetuating the culture wars after fining the University of Sussex a record 585,000 at the conclusion of an investigation into freedom of speech on campus. It marks the end of a three-and-a-half year investigation into the universitys handling of the case of Kathleen Stock, a philosophy professor who resigned after being targeted by
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 31, 2025
Dr. Sylvester James (Jim) Gates, Jr. received the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award presented by Diverse at this year's AABHE conference. College and university administrators should be strategic about how they respond to government attempts to root out diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI) on campus. Thats what a bevy of scholars told attendees who gathered at the annual conference of the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education.
The PIE News
MARCH 25, 2025
Bell recently spoke at The PIE Live Europe 2025, where he asserted that international students will stay in UK net migration figures , regardless of what the government’s policy on immigration might be. Now the MAC chair is back again with more no-nonsense responses as he answers more of your questions on immigration. Q: Is there a country with an immigration system you admire?
Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 12, 2025
Many leaders of institutions favor behind-the-scenes resistance over protests and op-eds, the Council of Independent Colleges’ president writes.
Wonkhe
MARCH 12, 2025
Medical degrees were designed for financially comfortable students.
HEPI
MARCH 9, 2025
Rose Stephenson is Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. On the eve of the release of HEPIs Student Generative AI Survey 2025 , HEPI hosted a roundtable dinner with the reports sponsor, Kortext , and invited guests to discuss the following essay question: How will AI change the university experience for the next generation? This was the third roundtable discussion we have hosted with Kortext on AI, over three years.
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