HEPI

JANUARY 31, 2025

This blog responding to the Government’s new ‘crack down on rogue higher education operators ‘ has been kindly written for HEPI by the outgoing Vice-Chancellor of Buckinghamshire New University, Professor Nick Braisby. Quality Many delivery partners operate in geographic and demographic cold spots.

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The PIE News

MARCH 19, 2025

The Welsh government recently announced further funding for Wales innovative Global Wales programme, to support transition to a new approach under Medr. Global Wales plays a prominent role in enabling further education colleges and universities to access broader international partnerships and funding opportunities.

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HEPI

APRIL 4, 2023

On 22 June 2023, John Cater will complete three decades as the Director and Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University, rendering him the longest-serving head of a higher education institution in the UK. HEPI is marking the occasion by publishing his thoughts on higher education in 2030. Thirty years ago, I was a geographer.

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HEPI

MAY 27, 2024

The role that Higher Education institutions play in delivering the green skills needed to support the green workforce transformation.is Many Higher Education institutions are already going beyond traditional programmes to plug key gaps in the green workforce. often not given much coverage.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This article was kindly authored for HEPI by Peter Scott, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Studies at UCL and Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University between 1998 and 2010. There are two puzzles about UK higher education in the late summer of 2024. The solutions?

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HEPI

MARCH 24, 2025

While elements of competition remain, the reintegration of the sector into the Department for Education presents new opportunities for colleges and universities to enhance their contributions to local communities. We need government to develop a national framework within which local skills and innovation strategies can be developed.

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HEPI

AUGUST 4, 2024

GuildHE has been a long-time advocate for credit-based funding and I have been co-chairing the DfE Higher Education working group, together with Universities UK. To date, the LLE has drawn a mixed response from higher education providers. What’s happened up to now?

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The PIE News

JANUARY 5, 2024

The research found that less than half of higher education participants – 45% – felt the funding provided by Turing covered at least half of their costs on placement. This figure was higher for further education and vocational education and training participants at 86%.

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HEPI

JANUARY 25, 2023

You would be hard pressed to find someone in either the higher education sector or Westminster willing to argue that the current funding system for universities is working well. This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor David Phoenix, Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University (LSBU) and CEO of LSBU Group.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 22, 2024

The Director for Education and Skills at the OECD, Andreas Schleicher, has been quoted saying that the UK’s higher education sector is “ overextending ” itself, with universities offering credentials that lack substantive value. England’s education system is not producing “too many” graduates.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Further education colleges are used to being overlooked and underfunded – but the free speech bill will have serious consequences for the sector, argues Julian Gravatt. The post What would be the impact of the freedom of speech bill on colleges? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For the time being, John Cater is the longest-serving Vice-Chancellor in UK higher education, having held his current post for approaching 32 years. You may well ask, What has this to do with higher education? But are we seeing this in higher education too? Is this relevant to higher education?

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The government is making welcome moves to overhaul a sector in financial turmoil, but institutions face tough choices Philip Augar chaired the May government’s review of post-18 education and funding One of Britain’s most globally successful industries is under financial pressure.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Tej Nathwani, Principal Researcher (Economist) at HESA, the Higher Education Statistics Agency. For the sector, the question this has raised is; How might (higher) education play a role in helping to tackle the twin challenge of poor productivity and high inequality?

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Nevertheless, we know that most young people interact with education settings at least until the age of 18, meaning that higher and further education settings can be primary actors in driving change. Education was a significant theme. Through this project we attempted to calculate the number of EYPs in the UK.

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SRHE

MAY 28, 2024

By Michael Shattock Editor’s note: Michael Shattock is the guru of governance studies in HE; SRHE Blog is delighted to bring you his invitation to researchers in HE to expand their work in governance – a definitive statement about the many contributions that governance research can make to our understanding of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2024

While manhood is not defined as a monolith, onboarding descriptions, presentations, and further educational sources need to document an increased variety of manhood and leadership examples to more accurately reflect that of the entering classes of students.

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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. In doing so, we will fall far short of our ambitions for lifelong learning, a skills revolution and a more flexible imagination of higher education.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

This blog has been kindly written by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of London Higher, the representative body for more than 40 universities and higher education colleges across the capital.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Inspectors should be supporting and guiding schools, but the new grading system is just more of the old aggression, writes Liz Thompson , while Ruth Lewis seeks a return to pre-Ofsted-style inspections It seems to me, as a retired full-time inspector for the Further Education Funding Council (FEFC), that Ofsted is merely continuing its aggressive and (..)

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HEPI

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Attainment in education for Showmen is at an all-time high, as our children are passing GCSEs at expected levels and beyond. Further education is increasingly considered as a viable option, and many more Showmen are carrying on into higher education. There simply is no data available on our community in education.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Keir Starmer should revitalise Sure Start, focus on children’s happiness – and give a crucial boost to further education Our writers and experts name the pledges Labour must include in its manifesto Children became unhappier in the past decade, according to the annual Good Childhood report.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 29, 2024

In a statement on LinkedIn, PEN Group said: “This acquisition is a key step in our strategic plan to diversity our business model and establish a significant transnational education footprint in another English-speaking country, which is part of the EU.”

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HEPI

OCTOBER 20, 2022

First, providers have been asked to develop plans to diversify pathways into and through higher education, including the development of apprenticeships. With regard to diversifying pathways into and through higher education, this is neither a surprising nor an unwelcome priority.

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University Business

MARCH 19, 2025

Everyone from Silicon Valley to Capitol Hill is jockeying to land the hardest punch on higher education. Most launchpad jobs are found in technical, maintenance, manufacturing and healthcare fields and offer opportunities for significantly higher pay by moving into supervisory or managerial roles or pursuing further education.

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The PIE News

MAY 7, 2023

But, after the Scottish government reversed a decision to allocate £46m to colleges and universities “without warning” on May 3, there is pressure on the government – and its new leader Humza Yousaf – to release a plan on how it plans to fund higher education in Scotland. They add diversity,” he said on April 27.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2023

Exclusive: Report reveals postcode lottery as barely half FE institutions offer some form of language teaching Business groups and language experts are calling on ministers to make linguistic skills a core part of vocational training, after research found young people are unable to study languages at large numbers of further education colleges.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Such subcontractual partnerships – while presenting several benefits for students and higher education institutions (HEIs) alike – also present risks, according to an Office for Students (OfS) insights document published on September 3.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 30, 2024

As well as rejoining the scheme, Erasmus+ funding should be reinstated to further education colleges and community organisations. The Conservative government said it would raise immigration fees – including for international students – to fund public sector pay rises last year.

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HEPI

AUGUST 25, 2023

As we navigate these ‘in-between times’, we can forget the extraordinary impact that higher education, as a sector, and HEPI, as a think tank, has had over the last 20 years (as Bahram Bekhradnia and Roger Brown recount). On that basis two plausible scenarios come to mind.

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The PIE News

JULY 3, 2023

The report , which aims to give “a pioneering overview” of the different channels through which international students enter UK undergraduate education, found that in 2021/22, almost half (46%) of all applicants submitted individual applications directly through UCAS’s online system.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The northeastern Australian technical and further education provider has been using a new insight reporting tool to develop localised adverts targeting students in Japan and South Korea. It can also reference pre-existing data on higher education campaign performance to further enhance results.

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The PIE News

MARCH 21, 2024

Of the total, transnational education exports were valued at £2.4bn. The share of the total attributed to higher education was 77.9% at £21.74bn and education products and services at £2.15bn. Exports related to independent schools was £920 million, ELT £46m and further education £24m.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

At least some of the enrollment loss is due to misinformation and misconceptions about the relationship between employment and educational attainment. The prevalence of “Help Wanted” signs may have led some people to believe that further education and training may no longer be necessary. Dr. George R.

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The PIE News

JUNE 1, 2023

Growth in higher education exports was the main contributor, accounting for £19.5bn and transnational education saw “moderate growth” from £2.2bn in 2019 to £2.3bn in 2020. “There should be no doubt that we continue to champion and value international education.”

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Until now it has been the only north east London borough without a higher education institute. Discussions have been had with local colleges, particularly around what students on further education programs are studying and how the launch of the new campus can work to complement that.

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The PIE News

JULY 16, 2024

[Yvette Cooper] has a big job in government of taking the hard line on migration Jessica Lister, Public First Former universities minister Lord David Willetts revealed he is supporting Universities UK in penning a new whitepaper outlining proposals from the higher education sector to the new cabinet. ” What can we expect?

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