The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

OfS expected to gain new powers to regulate freedom of speech issues in England The Office for Students will make freedom of speech and “off-limits” subjects on university campuses one of its top priorities for next year, despite the regulator receiving only around 60 complaints over the last four years.

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HEPI

JULY 27, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Peter Nikoletatos , TechnologyOne Global Industry General Manager for Education and Adjunct Professor. Data Futures is sector-wide transformation programme that sees every Higher Education Institution in the UK report in detail on student-level data to regulators.

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HEPI

JANUARY 17, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Francesca Peruzzo, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham; Rille Raaper, Associate Professor, Durham University; and Mette Westander, Founding Director, Disabled Students UK. Disabled students also continue to endure discrimination and worse experiences than other students in higher education.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

But he underplays how culpable the last decade of university managers have been, and how damaging and dated their response is now. Now universities have at last recognised that the funding system is beyond repair.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Prof Des Freedman , Michael Bassey , John Sommer and Sally Bates respond to an article about the dire state of Britain’s higher education institutions Gaby Hinsliff ( Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding, 29 March ) says “the story [of decline] starts with the freezing of tuition fees in 2017”.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Today, Cardiff Metropolitan University made a landmark announcement in support of migrants’ rights by approving a policy to never invest in companies complicit in violence against people migrating and seeking sanctuary. But the campaign also builds upon the leadership that UK universities have already been showing throughout the past decade.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

There is shock, among alumni and observers, that the financial problems of the UK’s higher education sector now threaten such prestigious institutions. Once celebrated for their innovative approaches, 1960s campus universities were where different kinds of courses were developed.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Their stress derives from teaching students who may be the first in their families to attend higher education, are more likely to reside in the locality or have long commutes from the family home. It seems unlikely that saviours will be found among university managers, who are slighted as being ‘thick’ and ‘dense’.

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Creatrix Campus

AUGUST 14, 2024

5 Key Features of Cloud-Based Library Management System Software admin Wed, 08/14/2024 - 06:35 Higher education libraries can be difficult to maintain, but a cloud-based library management system provides an easy-to-use but effective alternative. They can maintain records of issued, borrowed, and overdue books.

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The PIE News

MAY 2, 2024

Such a projection is particularly pertinent after a report this year found that 80% of higher education providers could fall into deficit if there is a gradual or sudden drop in international students. At a sector level the total number of new visa grants is still reasonably high.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

Drumm McNaughton speaks with economist and investment manager David Linton about his findings from his upcoming book, Crushed: How Student Debt Has Impaired a Generation and What to Do About It. Podcast Highlights The cost of higher ed in terms of percentage of household income has risen dramatically in the past 50 years.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Previously a mooted buzzword, being ‘enterprising’ is now a necessity within educational settings. Entrepreneurship is represented by stand-alone (short) courses and even as a category within annual higher education awards. Entrepreneurial universities should provide professional development for staff. The UK scene.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Troy is a Fulbright Scholar and Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester’s Institute of Education. Troy’s research focuses on higher education leadership and administration, with a particular focus on investigating the inequities that persist in the sector.

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Creatrix Campus

AUGUST 16, 2024

10 Ways GPS and RFID-Based College Bus Management Systems Ensure Safe Transportation admin Fri, 08/16/2024 - 18:35 With Higher Education GPS, RFID-based bus tracking in College Bus Management Systems navigating the complexities of student transportation, safety is revolutionized and parental concerns are dispelled.

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SRHE

JANUARY 4, 2024

Indeed, a quick dip into some of the recent TEF feedback summaries to higher education institutions seems to suggest that use of learning analytics is valued by TEF panels. Dr Rob Summers is research manager at the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes (TASO).

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PeopleAdmin

AUGUST 17, 2023

Data and analytics are more important than ever to colleges and universities today. In today’s rapidly evolving higher education landscape, institutions are embracing data-driven strategies to further their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts.

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SRHE

JULY 19, 2023

Those who took GCSEs in 2018 are the most-assessed school cohort ever, after repeated government policy changes affecting their primary as well as secondary education. On 16 March 2023 lawyers Farrer & Co issued advice to universities trying to deal with UCU action in the ongoing dispute.

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HEPI

JULY 25, 2023

The problem of collective bargaining A popular trend is to blame universities for their failure to negotiate. In media interviews after the Edinburgh protests, students attacked university management for their “failure” and said they should pay their staff more.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Yet the university managed to hang on by securing philanthropic gifts and a USDA loan. It also sought a partnership with Saint Leo University, an idea that was ultimately dismissed in 2020 due to various issues, including IWU’s debt load. Five Years on the Brink Iowa Wesleyan has survived similar scares in the past.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Life in the higher education sector had been getting tougher ever since I started my career in 2017. To our horror, they were threatening to withhold 100% of our pay for 21 days of both July and August, because we were participating in a marking boycott over pensions, pay, labour precarity, inequality and working conditions.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

These used performance indicators (KPIs, as they became known) which began to be produced in the UK in the late 1980s, following the Jarratt Report of 1985 which argued that university managements needed comparative data in order to become more efficient.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This recognisable shorthand conjures up our shared frustrations, as scholars of higher education, with the conceptual and linguistic gaps between research, policy and practice and with a paradox at the heart of educational work in universities: the insistence on discussing education in a vernacular language, unpolluted with exotic terms-of-art.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

So it is for England’s universities. Change of government may have come too late for some institutions with no prospect of immediate relief • Autumn tipping point looms The “false dawn” is a staple of Hollywood thrillers: where the main characters think they have escaped their nemesis, only to discover they are in more peril than ever.

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EAB

JUNE 20, 2023

If a decline is due primarily to falling college-going rates, the question may be less about how you compete with other institutions, and more about how you compete against alternatives to higher education like work, family obligations, or misperceptions about higher education’s value.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

by Brett Bligh, Sue Beckingham, Lesley Gourlay, and Julianne K Viola SRHE’s ‘Landscapes of Learning for Unknown Futures: prospects for space in higher education’ symposium series, delivered with Professor Sam Elkington and Dr Jill Dickinson, aims to foster continuous dialogue around learning spaces.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2024

“Universities are where students go to expand their knowledge and experiences,” said Gloria L. But politicians in Iowa and Florida are forcing their agenda on higher education, policing what students see and learn and how universities manage their affairs. Blackwell, Chief Executive Officer of AAUW. Supreme Court.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

On the surface the definitions appear straightforward, with universities needing to make sure that a set percentage of their students continue with their studies, complete their studies and are in what is deemed ‘graduate employment’ within 15 months of graduation. Hansard (2021) University Tuition Fees Debate , Volume 702. References.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The exemption would remove assured status from private PBSA tenancies, as is currently the case with university managed accommodation. There is already a delegated power in the Housing Act 1988 that would allow us to do this, so it did not need to be included in the Renters (Reform) Bill.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2024

Stella Maris criticises decision to remove her from two roles after she accused Israel of genocide and apartheid The rector of St Andrews University has been dismissed from the institution’s governing body and her position as a trustee after she accused Israel of genocide and apartheid.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

“In the fall of 2021, management decided to conduct an extensive recruiting campaign to bring in more students, which by itself is not an issue. But unfortunately, these students were promised housing—housing the Tennessee State University management knew they did not have a sufficient supply of,” Mumpower said.

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SRHE

JULY 11, 2022

She had taken to telephoning individual vice-chancellors to question some aspect of university management or student behaviour, while enthusiastically pursuing the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which at the time of writing is at the committee stage in the House of Lords, procedurally close to its establishment in statute – perhaps.

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

His proof point for both parties “campaigning” against liberal arts is that state governments from both parties cut funding to higher education as a whole in the wake of the financial crisis (which is not in any way proof of bias against Liberal Arts/humanities). But that was before I understood what Devereaux considers “evidence”.

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