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It’s time for maintenance support to catch up with inflation

HEPI

JANUARY 16, 2024

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Tom Allingham , Communications Director at Save the Student. But few groups have been hit quite as hard as students – a demographic that, for the second year in a row , has seen its living costs rise at well above the national average rate of inflation. The impact has been devastating.

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Maintaining quality through the cost-of-living crisis

HEPI

MAY 12, 2024

This blog was kindly authored by Susi Peacock, Quality Enhancement Specialist at QAA Scotland. QAA Scotland has been hosting a series of events focused on ‘Supporting our learners to thrive’ through the cost-of-living crisis. Today, that traditional work/study dynamic has flipped.

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Great Expectations: Myth and the Student Experience

HEPI

MAY 4, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Jon Down , Director of Development and Ellie Garraway , CEO, of Grit Breakthrough Programmes. But, as myth bumps up against reality, many students find that the shine can quickly begin to fade. Grit delivers intensive personal development and coaching programmes in universities across the UK.

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Higher education funding fallacy: the folly of rewarding A while hoping for B

HEPI

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Aleks Subic , Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Aston University. It fails to meet the needs of students, graduates, universities, and business. Find him on LinkedIn. A growing consensus suggests that the higher education (HE) funding system in England is not fit for purpose.

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Accommodation shortages: are the odds stacked against students?

HEPI

AUGUST 29, 2023

This blog was kindly authored by Martin Blakey, CEO of Unipol, a student housing charity. Demand trends The summer recruitment round is volatile in 2023, and intake levels hard to predict. This is perhaps the most uncertain cycle since full cost fees were introduced in 2012.

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Jo Grady of the UCU responds to HEPI report on vice-chancellors’ pay

HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

This blog was kindly authored by Dr Jo Grady , General Secretary of the University and College Union (UCU). To suggest that widespread condemnation of spiralling vice-chancellor pay is a product of confected outrage by unions is to seriously underestimate the level of anger this glaring injustice demands.

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Innovation in student unions

HEPI

MARCH 28, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by John Abell, Chief Executive of Coventry University Students’ Union , and is part of HEPI’s current series of blogs with NCEE. The cost-of-living crisis and inflation means that the costs of providing these services is increasing but we cannot simply raise our prices.

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New medical schools: the story so far

HEPI

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In 2016, the then Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, promised that medical schools in England would be allowed to offer up to 1,500 extra training places a year with a view to making the NHS self-sufficient in doctors by 2025. This is a longstanding issue and universities have been at the heart of attempts to tackle it. Regional transformation.

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Five Things University Leaders are Prioritizing This Year (And Two They Should Be)

EAB

MAY 17, 2023

Blogs Five Things University Leaders are Prioritizing This Year (And Two They Should Be) The results from EAB’s Spring 2023 Pulse Survey are in! While our analysis validated many topics on our research agenda, we also surfaced a handful of surprises.

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Moving Teaching Forward, Post-Pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No doubt you’ve heard the advice: you can’t go forward looking into the rearview mirror. Søren Kierkegaard had it right: life must be lived forward but can only be understood backward. The first was the Great Recession, the financial crisis that began in December 2007.

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WEEKEND READING: The next 20 years – rediscovering the social purpose of higher education

HEPI

AUGUST 25, 2023

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. We are currently running chapters from the Anniversary Collection as a series of blogs.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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The State of EdTech: OPMs, Risk Planning, and Generative AI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 189 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Phill Hill

The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

Dr. Drumm McNaughton discusses contemporary EdTech trends and predictions with Phil Hill, publisher of Phil on EdTech Blog and partner at MindWires LLC. In this episode of Changing Higher Ed podcast , listeners will gain an overview of how technology is reshaping the EdTech arena and the potential risks of the current state of OPMs.

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How do we enable transformative university transitions?

SRHE

OCTOBER 24, 2022

by Rita Hordósy. The Covid-19 pandemic meant a ‘ swift and acute ’ disruption to student experiences through the ‘ dissolution of the physical and social environment ’, and immediate financial hardship experienced by many. The issues of student retention, success, connectedness, and feeling included remain pressing issues for current entrants.

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

HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Gordon Marsden, co-founder of Right to Learn , and Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. All are welcome: you can sign up here. They also discussed Government policies and assessed the state of the Government’s Lifelong Learning Bill and its Lifelong Learning Entitlement.

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Honoring the Promise of Higher Ed

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JANUARY 19, 2024

Honoring the Promise of Higher Ed A Conversation With Lisa Vollendorf, President, SUNY Empire State bridget Thu, 01/25/2024 - 06:00 Image Higher Ed Leadership Inside Higher Ed Weekly Wisdom At the University Innovation Alliance (UIA), we like hearing the thoughts of higher education leaders at all levels of experience.

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We Need to Infuse Civic and Public Purpose Into a College Education

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Civics education is all the rage. A recent Newsweek headline sums up the widespread view: “ When We Fail to Teach Our Kids the Basics About Civics, We Risk Losing Our Democracy. But at the college level, we need to move up a notch. What does civics education entail?

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It’s time for maintenance support to catch up with inflation

Maintaining quality through the cost-of-living crisis

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Great Expectations: Myth and the Student Experience

Higher education funding fallacy: the folly of rewarding A while hoping for B

Accommodation shortages: are the odds stacked against students?

Jo Grady of the UCU responds to HEPI report on vice-chancellors’ pay

Innovation in student unions

New medical schools: the story so far

Five Things University Leaders are Prioritizing This Year (And Two They Should Be)

Moving Teaching Forward, Post-Pandemic

WEEKEND READING: The next 20 years – rediscovering the social purpose of higher education

Rehumanizing the Research University

The State of EdTech: OPMs, Risk Planning, and Generative AI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 189 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Phill Hill

How do we enable transformative university transitions?

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

Honoring the Promise of Higher Ed

We Need to Infuse Civic and Public Purpose Into a College Education

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