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Australian TNE looks to India as countries recognise qualifications

The PIE News

India’s International Financial Services Centres Authority, which announced the Deakin campus, said the centre will offer courses in Financial Management, FinTech, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

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University autonomy and government control by funding

SRHE

‘Universities must do more to raise their impact beyond their gates’, Phillipson said, so as ‘to drive the growth that this country sorely needs’ including by ‘joining with Skills England, employers and partners in further education to deliver the skills that people and businesses need’.

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Is the future tertiary?

HEPI

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. But won’t this dilute what HE is for?

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Why not HE? The reasons those from under-represented backgrounds decide against university

SRHE

In both instances, the principal aim was to understand better the challenges to HE progression faced by those on advanced level applied and professional courses (including BTECs) at a Midlands based further education (FE) college. The follow-up focused on two further subject areas. Research versus evaluation activities.’

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

She both struggled to pay her loans and felt limited in her ability to advance her career without further education. ” Today, more students of color, more low-income students, more women and more students with physical or mental health concerns seek higher education than in earlier decades. Some students need lower costs.

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Challenges facing women in post-study jobs, retraining and skills following the pandemic

HEPI

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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Higher Education in Ireland

HESA

Ireland trailed most of Europe by ten to fifteen years in massifying its higher education system, and as Ellen notes in our talk, the country’s universities only really gained a research mission at the turn of the millennium. But falling meant the higher education sector could learn from other countries’ success and mistakes.