The PIE News

JANUARY 31, 2024

“My father always said, ‘you educate to serve’,”explained Marshall-Katung. “His dream was that I should ‘go to the West’ and build on the education I already had from Nigeria.” At that point in time, I knew going for further education in the UK was just something I needed to do.”

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

What is the purpose of a university education? Computer Science and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. A liberal arts education is what a society — a civilisation — ought to champion. Only a liberal arts education can properly perform these functions. It is doubtful.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Over the past two months, HEPI has been running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. The national TALENT Commission report is a vital resource which provides new strategic insights into the UK’s higher education technical community. Not any more!

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Learning the theory behind the application with the MS in Data Analytics Engineering As a working analytics engineer with a bachelor of arts in behavioral psychology from the University of Maine, Marta found herself craving further education that would be relevant to her career path.

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HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

Creating a parity of esteem between Further Education and Higher Education, or between ‘vocational’ and ‘academic’, is often suggested as a good idea to improve skills shortages, achieve levelling up and promote economic growth. So, why should institutions consider this?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. The New England Commission of Higher Education] is getting more comfortable with pilots, for examples.”

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Efforts to widen higher education access have tended to focus on the provision of information and supportto those from under-represented backgrounds. The follow-up focused on two further subject areas. Those planning on employmenttalked about the appeal of ‘getting a job’ and wanting to leave full-time education behind.

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

Her article explores the evolving value of degrees in English higher education, focusing on the competence of degree-granting institutions and the implications of recent changes in degree-awarding powers. Degrees’ remain the highest of all the higher education qualifications and accreditations offered by English higher education providers.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. Under the Oxford and Cambridge Act (1877). The inclusion of ‘research’ was still a recent arrival in universities.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

None of this would have been possible without the support of our University Partners and our corporate Partners, currently numbering 136 higher education institutions and 18 corporations. It is also worth noting the constant contribution of Times Higher Education and Research Fortnight to HEPI’s impact over the whole of the past 20 years.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The event was introduced by the chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Adult Education, Margaret Greenwood MP, who said that a gender pay gap and class ceiling in many sectors for disadvantaged women had been exacerbated by Covid, its aftermath and cost-of-living crisis – and this event was timely. Women accounted to just 6.7

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HESA

APRIL 20, 2023

I’m Alex Usher and this is The World of Higher Education podcast. In higher education, where scale matters a lot, small size puts a crimp in what you can do. This was also true with respect to higher education. But falling meant the higher education sector could learn from other countries’ success and mistakes.

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HEPI

APRIL 1, 2024

Tony Blair’s commitment that his Labour government would achieve 50 per cent participation in higher education was made in 1999, although the participation rate did not start rising substantially until the coalition government of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats ended England’s student number controls in 2013.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

by GR Evans A change of government has not changed the government’s power to intrude upon the autonomy of providers of higher education, which is constrained chiefly by its being limited to the financial. As Secretary of State for Education, Gillian Keegan sent a Letter of Guidance to the Office for Students on 4 April 2024.

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