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.

Degree 52

Degree Engineering Arts And Sciences Advise 52

HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Reading Time: 14 minutes Before traditional media and search engines, schools relied primarily on their reputation to spread the word about their unique offerings. PPC ads offer a way for schools to reach students who use search engines and other media platforms, and then it does even more.

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Education Engineering Schooling Achievement 105

HEPI

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Technical staff play a vital role in sustainable innovations , engineering, and domestic and international research in science, and they prop up our creative industries. Why it’s a great time to be a technician in higher education and research’ , HEPI blog, 28 September 2022. It is therefore critical that the sector responds now.

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Empower Engineering Higher Education Further Education 77

HEPI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Computer Science and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. Since most of these students will not pursue further education, this will be their final chance to undertake such academic exploration with institutional support. Upon graduation, newly credentialed students can join the modern workforce.

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Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Computer Science History 106

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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Education Further Education University Students 72

HEPI

MAY 27, 2024

Furthermore, a wide range of emerging higher education programmes focus on areas directly relevant to the green workforce transformation. For example, Universities are introducing programmes in net zero engineering, carbon management and renewable energy technologies.

Higher Education 79

Higher Education Education Academia Guidance 79

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

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

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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Higher Education University Educational Policy Further Education 52

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

She both struggled to pay her loans and felt limited in her ability to advance her career without further education. She was drawn to UoPeople because of its affordability and prospects for career advancement. Now, she is finishing her last course toward an M.B.A. Why do we have minds if we can’t even go to school?

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University Model Higher Education Faculty 109

HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

From 1997 other providers of higher education, including further education colleges and higher education colleges might be granted degree-awarding powers on the advice of the Quality Assurance Agency with the consent of the Privy Council. The scene and the expectations have changed.

Degree 62

Degree Arts And Sciences Higher Education Liberal Arts 62

SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

With many providers offering ‘Professional’ doctorates, leading for example to a Doctorate in Business, a Doctorate in Education, a Doctorate in Engineering, the thesis may be replaced partly or wholly by professional experience and study may take place in conjunction with paid work as a required element.

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Allocate Higher Education Arts And Sciences Degree 52

HEPI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As Bahram notes in the Foreword, Sarah Isles, HEPI’s Development Director from 2008, helped engineer the shift from HEPI being funded by HEFCE to financial independence, via the establishment of a University Partnership programme and a corporate Partnership programme. It is: do we want more education at higher levels or not?

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Policy Higher Education Degree Achievement 40

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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Disadvantaged Further Education Policy Higher Education 98

HESA

APRIL 20, 2023

Then we have the further education colleges, which are themselves in the process of that whole sector being developed because it emerged out of the local government and so on. And so the FET, further education and training, are a bit like the community colleges. We have maybe about 20% in further education and about 13.5%

Higher Education 40

Higher Education Education Further Education Policy 40

SRHE

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

‘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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