EAB

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Blogs We asked 3,800+ graduate and adult students about their program preferences. Here’s what they shared. Read on to see what your current and future adult learners shared about these topics. million online graduate enrollments, compared to 1.4 million face-to-face graduate enrollments nationwide.

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The PIE News

MARCH 16, 2023

The sheer breadth of rankings can be surprising, from THE, QS, Shanghai Rankings, to the Private University Ranking – ASEAN, Studocu’s World University Ranking, Webometrics, and the Round University Rankings to name but a few. And it’s not only in China where rankings have become ingrained in policy.

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HEPI

JANUARY 1, 2024

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Neil Raven, Independent educational consultant. The comparatively low rates of higher education (HE) progression amongst young men from white, working class backgrounds has received a significant amount of attention in recent years , including from HEPI.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Reading Time: 4 minutes Workplaces are increasingly dropping degree requisites for many roles that historically were only available to college graduates. Or, in accounting, the feedback from employers is that many graduates are arriving to jobs without specific skills – like data analytics, for example.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Reading Time: 4 minutes Workplaces are increasingly dropping degree requisites for many roles that historically were only available to college graduates. Or, in accounting, the feedback from employers is that many graduates are arriving to jobs without specific skills – like data analytics, for example.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 20, 2023

But as the sources are generally from the US, the book provides a reminder that these lessons are not limited to the UK or to our own labour market and productivity challenges. The book also usefully reminds us that commitments by employers to end graduate-only recruitment are often not meaningful. Upskilling and reskilling.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

MAY 11, 2022

I have previously blogged about doctored program information submitted by four prominent universities—Rutgers University, Temple University, Claremont McKenna College, and Iona College. The former dean of USC education school directed administrators to omit information from its U.S. Examining the Ethical Issues. Ethical Issues.

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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. Meanwhile other countries, like Australia and Canada, do the opposite. Find him on LinkedIn.

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EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

Blogs 4 reasons your labor market analysis isn’t capturing employer demand for graduates By Ben Campbell Maybe you’ll find this situation familiar: you’ve heard from faculty and industry leaders about strong and growing demand for a particular program. Online job postings may not surface employer demand.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This blog was kindly written for HEPI by Fiona Walsh McDonnell ( LinkedIn ) , Partnerships and Development Director at the charity Student Hubs , which supports students to engage in social action in their community. Equal partnership is vital for these activities to work, and crucially to innovate.

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The PIE News

JULY 18, 2023

The UK government has announced a “crackdown” on “poor-quality” degrees, but some are calling the plans “shortsighted” while others point out implications for international students and creative arts graduates. “Overall satisfaction rates remain high.”

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

APRIL 10, 2024

How can you determine what your target audience wants to see from you on LinkedIn? What are some best practices when implementing content marketing for business schools ? Over the years, we’ve observed how LinkedIn works and what business schools need to reach the right users.

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Coursera blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

That’s because employers typically set the standards around credentials. Jobs do not require four-year degrees,” Harvard Business School summarized in a recent report. Employers do.” When you’re looking to either begin a career or pivot to a new one, what is your best option: a Professional Certificate or a degree?

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HEPI

JANUARY 25, 2024

This HEPI blog was authored by Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. What did we learn about the demand for short courses? First, it is difficult to learn much from a nationwide trial that only involved 125 students. Any lessons from this cohort should therefore be taken with a bucketful of salt.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting I see we are in another cycle of concern for the academic humanities, this time triggered by a long article in the New Yorker by Nathan Heller titled “The End of the English Major.” And also, I probably won’t be working here by the time you graduate anyway. Uhh…nothing? not two (M.A.),

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HEPI

MARCH 28, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Alex Blower, Access and Participation Manager at Arts University Bournemouth. Over the last two years, pressure from policymakers for university outreach teams to play a strategic, proactive role in supporting the GCSE attainment of young people from underrepresented backgrounds has gradually increased.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

In this blog we explore what academic integrity means post-ChatGPT and outline strategies for helping students to engage with generative AI tools effectively and responsibly. What is academic integrity and why does it matter? What about if they ask an AI tool to rewrite their text in a more academic style?

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HEPI

MAY 8, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Mary Curnock Cook CBE , chair of the Jisc-Emerge HE Edtech Board, and Nic Newman , Founder and partner at Emerge Education. This echoes the positive approach to generative AI shared by Sir Tim O’Shea in a recent HEPI blog post, which you can read here.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Like many of you, I know Marni Baker Stein. For the first time in her career, Marni is moving from the university side to ed tech. Today, she’s sharing why she made the jump, what she’s most excited about and the long-term trends for online learning. After returning to the U.S.,

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation My friend and former colleague Kaitlin Dumont, now director of University Partners at Kaplan, introduced me to her friend Charlotte Wang. What drove you to work on BU Questrom’s Online MBA? You received your MBA from the traditional residential program at Questrom, correct?

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HEPI

MARCH 29, 2023

Today’s HEPI blog is in the form of the Foreword to the recent HEPI / UPP Foundation report on Public Attitudes to Higher Education (February 2023). The pressing need to tackle global challenges, like climate change and war in Europe, also means the current malaise feels somehow different to what has come before.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Remember Bluto’s classic line in Animal House —“Christ. I sure do. I laughed at the time, but I’ve since come to realize that, according to the last statistics I could find, over 20 percent of students at public four-year institutions take seven or more years to graduate or drop out.

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HESA

MAY 24, 2023

In the final scenes of the 1991 movie The Russia House , as Sean Connery is about to give “the shopping list” – a comprehensive list of questions about Soviet rocket technology – to what MI6 and the CIA believe is a potential Russian defector, there’s a conversation between a young agent and Edward Fox, who plays Sean Connery’s handler. “

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

AUGUST 9, 2023

This includes anything from refining your school’s program pages to supporting and guiding prospects through admissions. Throughout each stage, prospects may have specific questions and concerns that can prevent them from moving forward to the next step. Will they receive sufficient support from the faculty?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I find it quite striking: the most successful unionization efforts have shifted from the traditional working class to the educated class. Yes, and among graduate students at Brown, Harvard, MIT, NYU and, most recently, Yale. At tech firms rather than in warehousing. Christakis, who is an M.D.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Prepare your graduates for today's and tomorrow’s tech jobs—here’s how. What do data scientists, web developers, business analysts, and software engineers have in common? What has enabled Python to grow so quickly? Here’s what you need to know. Launching a data analytics program?

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EAB

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Blogs Building awareness of your law program is more important than ever Here’s how 3 schools did it effectively *Institution names in this post are pseudonyms. For years, their enrollment team relied primarily on word-of-mouth marketing from their young alumni to source new leads for their law program. Gen Z spends 4.1

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

He also told us: "I come from a line of three generations of faculty members here at the University of Utah. And that's what leadership is about. One of the things that frequently worked for us is very open dialogue and gathering data from everyone. I would maybe say, 'I need to know what options we have available.'

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 19, 2023

I do feel that way often, whether I’m thinking about my professional life, technological advances, or an innovative VR art exhibit I really want to check out. As a nation though, what the report projects is a decline in enrollment. This means, we in higher education must change – and we must do so quickly.

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EAB

JULY 17, 2023

Blogs What enrollment teams need to know about the GMAT Focus Edition And why it is still only one part of a successful lead generation strategy This spring, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) announced the release of the GMAT Focus Edition , a new, shorter version of the business admissions test.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Blogs The top 5 ways prospective graduate and adult learners are finding your programs Insights from EAB’s new survey of 3,800+ graduate and adult learners It may be hard to believe, but many of your current adult learners—and the students making their way through the enrollment funnel for your graduate and adult programs right now—belong to Gen Z.

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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. We need to look backward to learn from our mistakes and free ourselves from the ruts we find ourselves in. But those words of wisdom are actually wrong. Only by looking backward can we move forward.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Melissa Bowden for Kortext , in collaboration with the staff at the University of Derby. What are the challenges that first-year undergraduates face when making the transition to university study? Some students will be moving away from home – perhaps to a new city, or even a new country.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. After eight years, the graduation rate is 71 percent.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. The people there were likable enough and seemed to mean well, but it wasn’t entirely clear to me why they were there or what I was supposed to do. The relative wisdom, or not, of doing directly into a doctoral program from undergrad is another post altogether.)

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean A number of terrific tidbits have come in over the last week or so, most of which are directly relevant to student success. ” Among other measures, the graduation rate for Black students nearly tripled. I hope many more do soon. The rest of us can learn from it.

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EAB

JUNE 12, 2023

Blogs What universities should do now in the uncertain OPM landscape Recent releases from the Department of Education have put Online Program Managers (OPMs) front and center of the news cycle. Read on for what you need to know now and what actions to consider.

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