The PIE News

MARCH 19, 2025

Our tertiary education sector has a notable heritage of raising Waless voice on the global stage and welcoming the world to Wales. Building on this, Universities Wales has published a report calling for a comprehensive strategy for international education and research for Wales. The report builds on strong foundations.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Government likely to treat FE sector as ‘big schools’, removing autonomy over borrowing and investment Further education (FE) colleges are likely to be treated as “big schools” by the government and lose critical financial independence, after a ruling reclassified colleges in England as part of central government.

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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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HEPI

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our community values education: our children attend school as often as possible and, as parents, we support our children as they achieve amazing things academically. Our young people are more likely now than ever before to continue from primary into secondary education. Showmen are achieving amazing things in education.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 29, 2024

Planet Education Networks , a network of universities, partners and affiliates, said this deal will not only broaden its portfolio but significantly bolster the offering available to local and international students in Ireland. Joining forces with Planet Education Networks enables us to expand our reach and enhance our educational offerings.

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HEPI

MAY 27, 2024

The UK Government’s Green Jobs Taskforce highlights that it is essential for more young people to leave the education system with green skills in order to deliver on a green workforce transformation. The role that Higher Education institutions play in delivering the green skills needed to support the green workforce transformation.is

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This article was kindly authored for HEPI by Peter Scott, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Studies at UCL and Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University between 1998 and 2010. There are two puzzles about UK higher education in the late summer of 2024. The solutions?

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HEPI

MARCH 24, 2025

Dr Katerina Kolyva is Chief Executive Officer of The Education and Training Foundation. Post-16 education in England is at a pivotal moment, with increasing efforts to create a more integrated and collaborative system.

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HEPI

AUGUST 4, 2024

GuildHE has been a long-time advocate for credit-based funding and I have been co-chairing the DfE Higher Education working group, together with Universities UK. To date, the LLE has drawn a mixed response from higher education providers. What’s happened up to now?

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University Business

MARCH 19, 2025

Everyone from Silicon Valley to Capitol Hill is jockeying to land the hardest punch on higher education. It turns out that whatever your education level, landing a good first job is the key to both short- and long-term success. An abundance of data correlates education levels with significantly higher earnings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2024

While manhood is not defined as a monolith, onboarding descriptions, presentations, and further educational sources need to document an increased variety of manhood and leadership examples to more accurately reflect that of the entering classes of students. Dr. Harrison P.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 22, 2024

By Golo Henseke ( LinkedIn ) Associate Professor in Education, Practice and Society at the Institute of Education (IoE), UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, and Francis Green , Professor of Work and Education Economics, also at the IOE. Yet, qualifications are inherently tricky to standardise internationally.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For the time being, John Cater is the longest-serving Vice-Chancellor in UK higher education, having held his current post for approaching 32 years. You may well ask, What has this to do with higher education? But are we seeing this in higher education too? The crunch is coming.

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HEPI

JANUARY 25, 2023

You would be hard pressed to find someone in either the higher education sector or Westminster willing to argue that the current funding system for universities is working well. According to the Association of Colleges, at least 20 colleges sought borrowing approvals from the Department for Education in December 2022 alone.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The government is making welcome moves to overhaul a sector in financial turmoil, but institutions face tough choices Philip Augar chaired the May government’s review of post-18 education and funding One of Britain’s most globally successful industries is under financial pressure.

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The PIE News

MARCH 21, 2024

UK education exports hit £27.9 Of the total, transnational education exports were valued at £2.4bn. The share of the total attributed to higher education was 77.9% at £21.74bn and education products and services at £2.15bn. While in 2011, ELT made up 11.8%

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SRHE

MAY 28, 2024

By Michael Shattock Editor’s note: Michael Shattock is the guru of governance studies in HE; SRHE Blog is delighted to bring you his invitation to researchers in HE to expand their work in governance – a definitive statement about the many contributions that governance research can make to our understanding of higher education.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 5, 2024

The research found that less than half of higher education participants – 45% – felt the funding provided by Turing covered at least half of their costs on placement. This figure was higher for further education and vocational education and training participants at 86%.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Tej Nathwani, Principal Researcher (Economist) at HESA, the Higher Education Statistics Agency. For the sector, the question this has raised is; How might (higher) education play a role in helping to tackle the twin challenge of poor productivity and high inequality?

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Keir Starmer should revitalise Sure Start, focus on children’s happiness – and give a crucial boost to further education Our writers and experts name the pledges Labour must include in its manifesto Children became unhappier in the past decade, according to the annual Good Childhood report.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Further education colleges are used to being overlooked and underfunded – but the free speech bill will have serious consequences for the sector, argues Julian Gravatt. The post What would be the impact of the freedom of speech bill on colleges? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Buttle UK’s grants provide essential items for children’s education, homes and wellbeing. Nevertheless, we know that most young people interact with education settings at least until the age of 18, meaning that higher and further education settings can be primary actors in driving change. I decided I can’t do it.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Such an approach indicates a significant amount of effort is therefore required to do something supposedly so essential to the smooth operation of a tertiary education system. In doing so, we will fall far short of our ambitions for lifelong learning, a skills revolution and a more flexible imagination of higher education.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

This blog has been kindly written by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of London Higher, the representative body for more than 40 universities and higher education colleges across the capital.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Its inspection and grading system lacks any focus or reference to supported and guided development.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

What is an even greater scandal than student debt and collapsing apprenticeships is that adult education, which used to give people a second chance to gain GCSEs and A-levels or vocational qualifications suited to their aspirations, is now virtually nonexistent. Continue reading.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This blog was contributed by Professor Antony Moss, Associate Pro Vice Chancellor, Education and Student Experience, London South Bank University, and Chair, London Uni Connect. First, providers have been asked to develop plans to diversify pathways into and through higher education, including the development of apprenticeships.

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The PIE News

MAY 7, 2023

The international education strategy for Scotland that the devolved assembly outlined in its 2021/22 program for government has still not been released, while a replacement for the Erasmus program has also been delayed. In 2020/21, non-EU students contributed £867m in tuition fees.

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HEPI

AUGUST 25, 2023

As we navigate these ‘in-between times’, we can forget the extraordinary impact that higher education, as a sector, and HEPI, as a think tank, has had over the last 20 years (as Bahram Bekhradnia and Roger Brown recount). The debate therefore is what is the ‘form’ and what is the ‘part’.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It has become an important educational marketing tool that helps schools achieve impressive results , mostly in student recruitment. At HEM, we have over fifteen years of effective education marketing experience to draw from, so we fully understand the value that PPC advertising provides.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2023

Exclusive: Report reveals postcode lottery as barely half FE institutions offer some form of language teaching Business groups and language experts are calling on ministers to make linguistic skills a core part of vocational training, after research found young people are unable to study languages at large numbers of further education colleges.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Such subcontractual partnerships – while presenting several benefits for students and higher education institutions (HEIs) alike – also present risks, according to an Office for Students (OfS) insights document published on September 3.

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The PIE News

JUNE 1, 2023

The UK says it has “recommitted” to the aims of its international education strategy days after the government announced plans to end rules allowing international taught masters students to bring dependants with them to the country. “There should be no doubt that we continue to champion and value international education.”

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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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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2025

By choosing a title that sounded a lot like A-levels with T for technical the reformers behind Englands latest post-16 qualification sent a message that the days of vocational educations second-class status were over.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

college enrollment is a lingering concern for both educators and policy makers. At least some of the enrollment loss is due to misinformation and misconceptions about the relationship between employment and educational attainment. The post-pandemic decline in U.S. Dr. George R. attend them. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.

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