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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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The rise of online-only education has been a double-edged sword. While it has expanded access to higher education, it has also introduced a new breed of institutions (robocolleges), students (robostudents), and workers (roboworkers).

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. Still others are climate refugees in search of land that supports human life. Others have fled wars in Syria or Ukraine.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

by Rob Cuthbert The leader’s speech to Conference was expected to include far-reaching proposals for higher and further education. At the next level, what we used to call further and higher education will be swept away to create a new Higher Skills curriculum. But now we need to change course.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Having returned from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool and dried out our shoes, bags and umbrellas, we round up the higher education themes we heard from three days of debate and discussion. The new Government is a big fan of higher education. Do we detect yet another enquiry into the future of higher education?)

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It is palpably evident that centralisation under an Office for Students (established as primarily a Regulator but replacing the UGC and its successor body, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)) is running out of road. Investment in human capital has been mostly ignored.

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WCET Frontiers

APRIL 20, 2023

The higher education press continues to increase its coverage with multiple articles , blogs , and op-ed pieces in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Education among other outlets. But as higher education professionals, we need to be cognizant of how we leverage generative AI.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

Let us hope that Sir Keir and his ministers, like MacDonald and Trevelyan, will see the need to create a system of lifelong adult education in what RH Tawney called “a broad and generous, humane and liberal spirit”. John Holford Robert Peers professor of adult education emeritus, University of Nottingham Continue reading.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. The Royal Society adopts the same wording. Nevertheless, agreed definition seems elusive.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has 20 years’ experience in education policy research. The Labour Party is ahead in the polls and has been since December 2021.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Nonetheless, the disaffiliation campaign was really about the theatre of student politics – especially among us middle-class arts and humanities students. A few years later, I found myself working for a senior government minister (David Willetts) with responsibility for higher education who had a soft spot for the NUS and its leadership.

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