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Lunchtime Reading: Communicating the value of higher education to government in a new political era

HEPI

Alex Favier tirelessly building bridges between higher education, government departments and the Midlands Engine, and helping everyone involved represent this effectively overseas. Universities need to describe their role in this endeavour in equally sincere and powerful terms, and to be believed. Didn’t expect to see us here?

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Federal earmarks a boon for higher ed

Inside Higher Ed

“Earmarks come and go,” said Terry Hartle, senior vice president for government relations and public affairs at the American Council on Education. The last federal budget had $9 billion in earmarks for nearly 5,000 projects, not all of which involved higher education.

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A Premier League success story? Why global higher education is critical to our diverse local economies and communities in the UK

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Paul Angrave , Associate Director of Public Affairs at the University of Leicester. An industry, like football, that is global and civic, distributed across all geographical areas of the country, and an engine for economic growth and ‘levelling up’ in those places.

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

” Harnessing Bots Emily (not her real name) is an American who is saddled with student loan debt totaling six figures from associate and bachelor’s degrees at other institutions, according to Dan Kalmanson, vice president for public affairs at UoPeople. Why do we have minds if we can’t even go to school?

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

SRHE

Hailat, K, and Alsmadi, S (2021) ‘An investigation of the push-pull factors influencing student selection of higher education: the case of Arabian Gulf students in the UK’, Journal of Public Affairs. Code of Practice on Research Integrity , Edinburgh Napier University, [link]. Available at: [link] (accessed: 11 January 2022).

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Repairing the College-to-Career Pipeline

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

A senior engineering faculty member and some associate business and science deans said, ‘We want to have a conversation with you. In January 2013, she began overseeing the Public Affairs and Communications teams. What are you doing? Why have you never talked to the university? Before joining TFA, Ms.

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Record number of US visas to be issued to Indian students in 2024

The PIE News

We are also really proud to say that every first time student who wanted a visa appointment got it, something we weren’t able to achieve in the past,” Brenda Soya, public affairs officer at the US Consulate General in Mumbai , told The PIE News. Students are also preferring careers in public policy, counselling, and teaching.