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Interest rate changes could challenge universities, student loans and post 16 and vocational education

SRHE

by Sir Adrian Webb The publication on 13 September 2023 of the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee report on the Office for Students drew attention to the financial challenges facing universities in the UK and to the challenges associated with regulating and overseeing these risks.

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Why growing demand doesn’t guarantee success for cybersecurity programs

EAB

While many university leaders express interest in launching cybersecurity master’s degrees , increasing competition and market concentration threaten all new programs’ ability to capture student attention. UMGC’s graduate certificate in systems engineering ) to supply graduates with these in-demand skills. Software Engineering.

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4 tactics to reach, recruit, and enroll “stealth shoppers”

EAB

The 4 biggest challenges facing graduate and adult education How can you effectively manage your recruitment funnel, predict yield, or plan for the administration of your programs if 80% of applicants are stealth? For these reasons, nearly all university websites have room for improvement.

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Business candidates want personalized marketing from you—here’s how to do it well

EAB

One business candidate even called her process of combing through endless search engine results “exhausting.” Recent EAB UX research showed that graduate business candidates are easily overwhelmed by the many similar-sounding options available to them.

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Is your digital front door open?

EAB

Learn how to source right-fit adult prospects in a demanding market Implement organic search engine optimization (SEO) tactics consistently While you likely already know that SEO is important, implementing SEO practices well and consistently is often easier said than done.

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Prepare your graduates for today’s and tomorrow’s tech jobs—here’s how

EAB

What do data scientists, web developers, business analysts, and software engineers have in common? It is a universal language easily transferable to other disciplines and languages and is used by almost every organization in tech. Prepare your graduates for today's and tomorrow’s tech jobs—here’s how.

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Challenges facing women in post-study jobs, retraining and skills following the pandemic

HEPI

The event was introduced by the chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Adult Education, Margaret Greenwood MP, who said that a gender pay gap and class ceiling in many sectors for disadvantaged women had been exacerbated by Covid, its aftermath and cost-of-living crisis – and this event was timely.