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By Dr Adrian Gonzalez ( @AGonzalez05 ) Senior Lecturer in Sustainability and Director of Learning and Teaching, Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York. Table 1: Department of Environment and Geography, University of York fieldtrips up to 2022-2023 What does this total figure equate to?
Ronald Barnett is( www.ronaldbarnett.co.uk ), Emeritus Professor of HigherEducation at the Institute of Education and President of the Philosophy and Theory of HigherEducation Society. These changes are already having effects on highereducation, especially on what it is to be a student.
That is largely because these justice-impacted students are often invisible to educators, their identities simply erased. Being members of an unprotected class (a term used by Dr. Joe Louis Hernandez ) limits the potential for highereducation to transform the lives of people affected by the justice system.
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Nurun Nahar , Assistant Professor (Accounting with Business) at the University of Bolton. As highereducation practitioners, it is crucial to draw a comparison between our expectations of an ideal digitally capable student and the reality of students’ digital capabilities.
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This blog responding to the Government’s new ‘crack down on rogue highereducation operators ‘ has been kindly written for HEPI by the outgoing Vice-Chancellor of Buckinghamshire New University, Professor Nick Braisby. Applications are expected to reopen in August 2025, but the OfS is keeping this under review.
Everyone from Silicon Valley to Capitol Hill is jockeying to land the hardest punch on highereducation. ‘Launchpad jobs’ It remains a mystery why economic circumstances diverge so dramatically over timeand therein lies the rub for colleges and universities. Yet too many college graduates are choosing wrong.
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 highereducation institution in the UK. HEPI is marking the occasion by publishing his thoughts on highereducation in 2030. How far could this go?
The University of Portsmouth is establishing a presence in London with a brand new campus, set to welcome its first students early next year. The university’s partnership with global property investment and development group Northchild Group will see the university campus set up in Waltham Forest.
The role that HigherEducation institutions play in delivering the green skills needed to support the green workforce transformation.is However, Universities and our graduates have a crucial role to play and it is vital that we get this across. often not given much coverage. from QAA) and demand from students.
This article was kindly authored for HEPI by Peter Scott, Emeritus Professor of HigherEducation Studies at UCL and Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University between 1998 and 2010. There are two puzzles about UK highereducation in the late summer of 2024. Ask anyone at Goldsmiths et al.
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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 highereducation colleges across the capital. She writes here in a personal capacity, and you can follow Diana on Twitter @dianajbeech.
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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 highereducation.
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Such subcontractual partnerships – while presenting several benefits for students and highereducation institutions (HEIs) alike – also present risks, according to an Office for Students (OfS) insights document published on September 3.
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Social Mobility Commission says students should be informed of ‘earnings implications’ of course choices Students should be given more details about how the courses they study after leaving school might affect their employment prospects, it has been suggested, as figures show near-record numbers of 18-year-olds applying to university.
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As well as rejoining the scheme, Erasmus+ funding should be reinstated to furthereducation 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.
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.
[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 highereducation sector to the new cabinet. What can we expect?
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This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Dr Jonathan Grant, founding Director of Different Angles Ltd, a consultancy that focuses on the social impact of universities and research. Clearly not all universities in the UK are over 100 years old but they seem solidly to meet these criteria.
The northeastern Australian technical and furthereducation 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 highereducation campaign performance to further enhance results.
In July 2022, the UK and India agreed an MoU to recognise each other’s highereducation qualifications. “This agreement locks in the rules for mutual recognition to access education in both our countries, including the qualifications we provide online and offshore,” Australian minister for Education Jason Clare said. .
Growth in highereducation 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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T his post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The proposals of the Robbins Report on HigherEducation considered the role of providers of tertiary education.
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