The PIE News

JANUARY 17, 2025

The higher education sector across EMEA has weathered much change in recent times and is still navigating a period of transformation. Technology and automation are reshaping the job market; skills creation is battling to keep up and universities are exploring ways to equip their students for the workplace.

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University Business

JANUARY 28, 2025

Coming off one of the most challenging years for the higher education business in recent memory, it would be easy to carry a glass-half-empty outlook into 2025. From technological advancements to shifting demographics, the landscape is evolving rapidly. increase in unionized faculty and a 133% surge in unionized GSEs since 2012.

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WCET Frontiers

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Today I’m happy to welcome Rachael Hardiek with BibliU, who dives into how rural institutions are reimagining education with tech-enhanced solutions, ensuring students in even the most remote areas can succeed. But today, advancements in technology are rewriting the educational narrative for rural students.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Neil Selwyn , a Professor at Monash University, Melbourne has invited researchers from around the world to organise and run local academic meetings around the common theme: Problematising education and digital technology . What social harms are we seeing associated with digital technology and educatio n in our locality?

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SRHE

APRIL 4, 2025

by Hans de Wit, Tessa DeLaquil, Ellen Hazelkorn and Hamish Coates Hans de Wit, Ellen Hazelkorn and Hamish Coates are editors and Tessa DeLaquil is associate editor of Policy Reviews in Higher Education. It is therefore vital that these developments do not slip around or through policy gaps. An alternative TNE model?

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SRHE

APRIL 2, 2025

Introduction the widening digital divide Our recent study ( Zhou et al , 2025 ) surveyed 595 undergraduate students across the UK to examine the evolving digital divide across all forms of digital technologies. The core issue lies not in the absence of support, but in its uptake.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2025

There are many ways to design a course in higher education, but why do it alone? As the educational landscape continues to evolve, the role of an instructional designer (ID) has become necessary. In essence, an instructional designer leverages technology by marrying pedagogy and practice with selective and useful innovations.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Cadmus is running a series of collaborative roundtables with UK university leaders about the challenges and opportunities of generative AI in higher education. Exeters Education Incubator offers opportunities for staff to explore pedagogic innovation in partnership with students, with the intention of scaling up successful interventions.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The Red Pen , a global educational consultancy, has launched a new AI tool named Ink Narrative Kit, also known as INK , to help students work on their essays for undergraduate, postgraduate, and MBA applications. INK follows international and Indian university policies to support students. INK complies with university AI policies.

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The PIE News

APRIL 2, 2025

Last year, Pakistans Higher Education Commission revised its TNE policy to provide greater clarity on requirements, operational models, and introduce guidelines for establishing offshore campuses of Pakistani higher education institutions. The update also emphasised quality assurance and regulatory assessments.

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The PIE News

MARCH 4, 2025

[I] was also thrilled to announce more opportunities for Vietnamese students to study in New Zealand, and witness partnerships agreed between New Zealand and Vietnamese education institutions today too, the post continued. The post NZ announces key education initiatives for Vietnamese students appeared first on The PIE News.

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The PIE News

MARCH 21, 2025

With Mark Carney sworn in as Canadas new Prime Minister, major education groups have urged the incoming cabinet to recognise international students’ vital role in the countrys economy. Despite the optimism, Carneys stance on immigration policies in Canada leaves much to consider.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 14, 2025

The recent investigation by India’s Enforcement Directorate, which linked alleged identified partners of Canadian colleges to human trafficking networks, adds to the mounting challenges facing the sector, coming hot on the heels of a series of significant immigration policy restrictions announced since late 2023.

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The PIE News

MARCH 31, 2025

Almost 300 professionals from 25 countries around the world gathered in Malta to discuss the pressing issues shaping language education today. The importance of AI literacy among educators was stressed, with discussions focusing on how teachers can harness AI effectively rather than fearing its impact on traditional teaching methods.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Bumphus CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) at the end of 2025, capping a remarkable 15-year tenure that helped reshape higher education access nationwide. He understood that community colleges needed to be at the table for every major conversation about America's future workforce and educational opportunities."

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Australias higher education sector took a hammering in 2024 but our universities as they have throughout history and in spite of political machinations continued to deliver a high-quality education to both domestic and international students and undertake research to find solutions to our biggest challenges.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. Transparent policies: Clearly outline expectations while building flexibility.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The centre, which could be established by next year, will focus on enhancing ETS’s operational capabilities across key areas such as finance, human resources, technology, business intelligence, and assessment operations. Despite over 1.3 According to ETS, Indians accounted for 12.3% of the total test takers globally in 2022, up from 7.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The announcement from the American Council of Education (ACE) on Thursday, recognizes Howard's designation as an institution of very high research spending and doctorate production, a status that fewer than 150 universities nationwide have achieved. Department of Education. Howard reaching R1 status is phenomenal.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 15, 2024

Technology entrepreneur Ewan Kirk spoke to The PIE about concerns amongst the scientific research and development community that current policy is harming the country’s ability to attract and retain talent. This has happened despite international students currently subsidising the higher education system for domestic students.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 6, 2025

2024 was the year Australia doubled down on its ambition to create a stronger, fairer, and more future-ready higher education system as it works to implement recommendations laid out in the Universities Accord. By 2050, universities must double the number of domestic students they educate annually from 900,000 today to 1.8

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HEPI

MARCH 29, 2025

More than eleven years later, we revisit his lecture to consider what lessons it holds for today’s higher education sector. John Denham, March 2025 RSA Lecture The Cost of Higher Education Good evening. But if I dont challenge at least some current assumptions about how we fund and deliver higher education I shall have failed.

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HEPI

MARCH 3, 2024

On learning about the focus of the discussion, we chatted about the use of Generative AI tools amongst her peer group, and she wondered why my contemporaries were so flustered by this latest advance in technology. In this way, there has always been a next generation technology ; I have always been riding the wave of technological change.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The policy changes include a further reduction of 10% on this year’s cap allocation, while next year, master’s and PhD students – who were formerly exempt – will be included in the cap. The changes, announced in a press conference on September 18, are driven by the IRCC’s overall goal of reducing temporary residents from 6.5%

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The PIE News

APRIL 7, 2025

Amanda Malu stepped into her role as chief executive of Education New Zealand (ENZ) in October 2024, marking a return to the education sector. Its nice to be back, she says, reflecting on her past experiences, which include senior marketing roles at the Tertiary Education Commission and within the vocational education sector.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Below, as the government considers higher education reform, Dr Brooke Storer-Church and Dr Kate Wicklow make the case for specialist higher education institutions and warn against the dangers of homogenisation. By Dr Brooke Storer-Church , Chief Executive and Dr Kate Wicklow, Director of Policy & Strategy at GuildHE.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The program, coordinated by Finlands ministry of economic affairs and employment, and ministry of education and culture, encourages education-based and work-based immigration. Students from India who study in Finnish institutions usually go for science and technology courses, said Lhdevirta.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

With the National Education Policy , introduced in 2020, promoting transnational education to establish India as a global hub of education, efforts are being made to attract international universities to the South Asian country. The delegation actively discussed establishing an offshore JHU campus in India.”

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

A 20-year-old technology student was found dead in her hostel room at Odishas private deemed university, KIIT, allegedly after facing harassment from a fellow student. Students might reconsider their decision to study in India, and this incident could drive a policy shift in student recruitment.

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The PIE News

MAY 2, 2024

Universities in the UK, Australia and Canada have announced staff layoffs and course suspensions as government policies limiting international student numbers cause increasing financial strain. As of April 30, 55 institutions have confirmed cuts, with several thousand academic and administrative posts forecast to be lost in the coming months.

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University Business

MARCH 26, 2025

A recent survey from the American Association of Colleges & Universities and Elon Universitys Imagining the Digital Future Center reveals that more than half of executive higher education leaders havent harnessed the full power of generative AI and 57% reported their spring 2024 graduates werent prepared to enter a workforce that leverages AI.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Tracking higher education policy in the UK has never been a simple undertaking. While some policy changes apply to universities across the country, the devolved nature of education means that most announcements made by the Department for Education tend only to apply to institutions in England. DfE to the rescue?

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WCET Frontiers

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. NWHeat (Northwest Higher Education Accessibility Technology) is a partnership between Orbis Cascade Alliance (for libraries) and the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC). Educate faculty on the requirements, roles, and timelines. What is the Deadline?

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The PIE News

MARCH 14, 2025

While US universities lead in 32 subjects, with Harvard topping 15 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology leading 11, UK universities excel in 18 subjects, with Cambridge ranking first in four. Our largest-ever subjects rankings continue to illuminate factors influencing the quality of higher education institutions globally.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Strong leadership is needed now more than ever as higher education faces numerous challenges in 2025, from funding and technology to the changing perceptions of DEI and the continual difficulties of articulating the value proposition of a post-secondary degree. In this informational Q&A, Senior Lecturer on Education James P.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

From 16-18 February 2025, a high-level delegation from the UK visited Egyptian universities: Ain Shams University, and European Universities in Egypt (EUE); with a planned visit to New Cairo Technological University, to explore possible collaborations between the two countries.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 28, 2025

“The University of Surrey campus at GIFT City will be a shining example of British education excellence and impact, contributing to transnational education in a more globalised world,” said Lu Max, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Surrey.

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