The Guardian - Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

A survey of 10,000 full-time UK undergraduates by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) found a record 56% had paid employment while they were studying, working an average of 14.5 hours each week. Continue reading.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The potential for community college students and adults with some college credit to obtain a future degree is limited by a higher education system that has not fully embraced the many pathways today’s learners take to complete a degree, according to a new white paper from the Center for Higher Education Policy and Practice’s (CHEPP).

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SRHE

MARCH 26, 2025

We conducted semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 23 professionals from Iran’s higher education system, including executive experts and academic scholars. It highlights the interplay of internal and external factors driving this imbalance and offers practical recommendations for policymakers and university administrators.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

India wants to internationalise its higher education system and tackle brain-drain, as set out in the 2020 National Education Policy , while foreign institutions are keen to capitalise on the growing demand from Indian students. The nature of the business entity will also determine how much tax they are liable to pay. “The

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Manny Rodriguez laments childhood memories of the discourse surrounding education policies in California, particularly those that negatively affected migrant families like his. Manny is a leader in higher education policy advocacy,” says Brian Rivas, senior director of policy and government relations at The Education Trust — West. “He

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

Image: India’s publication of draft guidelines for foreign universities establishing branch campuses in the country has sparked concern among academics about potential infringements on institutional autonomy. They come amid soaring demand for higher education in the world’s fastest growing major economy.

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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.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

by Michael Shattock From decentralised to centralised Until 1919 UK universities, except Oxbridge and Durham, were primarily civic institutions created by wealthy citizens and governed by councils strongly represented by the founders and by local authorities and the local industrial community.

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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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The PIE News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

A licence to set up a branch campus in India was awarded to the University of Southampton in August, making it the first UK university to be granted permission to set up an outpost in the country. The first intake is expected for 2025, with four undergraduate and two graduate degrees to choose from.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The WUN , which the University of Rochester has been an active member of since 2012, is a consortium comprising 24 global universities from 6 continents. Such engagement will not only bring more higher education institutions to India, but will also familiarise individuals with the country’s opportunities and challenges.

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

Post-EU Referendum turmoil in the UK (and the EU) continues, for all sorts of reasons, but soon more serious and sustained assessment of the post-Brexit landscape for UK universities will occur. In such a context here is the question to consider: is an Oxbridge-Lille (a joint Cambridge-Oxford university) or equivalent (e.g.,

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HEPI

JULY 24, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Sir Chris Husbands, Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University. Keir Starmer has committed Labour to five ambitious missions, of which the fifth is squarely focused on educational transformation. The post Labour’s education policy is brave, but can they fund it?

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The PIE News

MARCH 12, 2024

In addition to outlining the benefits of pathway programs for students, the document also details their beneficial impact for universities, host countries and their economies, as well as sending countries. “We should celebrate the power and impact of pathway routes in transforming lives through education,” Smith added.

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The PIE News

APRIL 25, 2023

In another provocative speech, Sanjeev Sanyal, from the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council , who works closely with prime minister Modi, questioned the role of “old-style, legacy” universities. “We We already have too many university campuses on the planet,” he continued. Slowly, we are making it easier,” Mittal said.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Latin American HE systems are organised, in general terms, into institutional types that distinguish university institutions from other non-university academic organisations. However, there are relevant differences in dimensions such as governance, size, selectivity and educational offer.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The government of Australia has announced a ‘Universities Accord’ designed to build a long-term plan for the country’s higher education system. Minister for Education Jason Clare noted it is the “first broad review” of the system since the Bradley Review in 2008.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students. Dr. Ivory A.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Leadership will be key, as Sevak predicts that elections in the US, and around the world, will influence education policies for the rest of this decade. Immigration policies will take centre stage, he told The PIE, and these policies will drive more students to Canada than the US among other dramatic shifts in global student flows.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 21, 2024

Dr. Wil Del Pilar In recent years, the imperative of fostering DEI has become a cornerstone of higher education policies and practices. Colleges and universities would need their institutional policies and practices revamped to ensure that they not merely accommodate rather celebrate and incorporate diverse cultures and experiences.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Meeting with India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, the two leaders took the opportunity to promote a new format of international classes in France, facilitating the integration of non-French-speaking Indian students into the French higher education system through French language classes, starting from September 2024.

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The PIE News

MARCH 6, 2023

In July 2022, the UK and India agreed an MoU to recognise each other’s higher education qualifications. “This agreement locks in the rules for mutual recognition to access education in both our countries, including the qualifications we provide online and offshore,” Australian minister for Education Jason Clare said. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2024

However, the immediate aftermath of Brown highlighted significant gaps in the educational system's ability to serve these students effectively. The educational inequities they face continue to reflect broader societal inequalities, perpetuating a cycle of disadvantage and exclusion.

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The PIE News

APRIL 28, 2023

The University of Essex recently sent a delegation of its professional services staff to India for a unique immersion trip designed to develop a deeper understanding, knowledge and empathy of the challenges students face from the country.

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HEPI

MARCH 29, 2025

This lecture was originally delivered by the Rt Hon John Denham MP, former Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills in Gordon Brown’s Government. More than eleven years later, we revisit his lecture to consider what lessons it holds for today’s higher education sector. Whats the problem?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2024

The fight against discrimination and systemic racism is far from over. Moving forward, we must redouble our efforts to promote diversity, inclusion, and cultural acceptance in all aspects of our education system. Creating a more equitable and inclusive education system requires sustained advocacy, education, and solidarity.

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The PIE News

JULY 5, 2024

“There are certainly UK universities that are very close to announcing their India branch campuses,” some being months or even “weeks away”, Avantika Tomar, partner at EY Parthenon Education Practice told delegates of India Week’s Education Innovation conference on July 3.

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The PIE News

JULY 9, 2024

The test is used to determine the eligibility of candidates for junior research fellowship, assistant professors and PhDs in Indian universities and was supposed to take place on June 18. “The Focusing on the National Education Policy 2020’s promise to build accessible and quality education in India, the UGC is set to train over 1.5

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

German universities can expect international first-year students to offset stagnating or even further declining numbers of first semester German students by 2026, new analysis has suggested. The development of total first-year students at German universities since the 2011/12 peak.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

Nigel Thrift, The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities – The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick takes aim at research universities for being too big, too focused on students and too uninterested in grand ideas. And if the government won’t do it, universities should.’

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

What do I want to see from the Labour Government in relation to higher education? Firstly, I want a proper, grown-up conversation about what the UK Government wants the English higher education sector to look like. (As Do we want a world-class higher education system?

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HEPI

JANUARY 24, 2024

T his HEPI blog was authored by Vivienne Stern, Chief Executive of Universities UK, as an adaption of a speech she gave in response to a lecture by the Hon. Mathias Cormann, Secretary General of the OECD, on the value of higher education in developed countries. Our job must be to examine the evidence. That cannot be right.

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HEPI

APRIL 5, 2023

I know higher education policy can be slow but the school pupils applying to higher education when the Augar report came out graduated last summer. That’s how snail-like higher education policy has been in recent years, thanks to all the political turmoil.) You can register your place here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. Black student enrollment, for example, went up 2.3% in Hispanic enrollment.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This discourse has been dominated by perspectives of the “winners and losers” across the public universities – where proposed caps maintain 2023 volumes of around 145,000 new international enrolments but seek to re-allocate these across the 38 university providers. What’s a NUHEP and how many are there? ahead (78.6%

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Pro vice-chancellors and university directors step out of the vehicle one by one, school-trip style. Top international universities have been invited to set up alongside the investment banks and management consultancies that are quickly populating the city’s soaring skyscrapers.

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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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