HEPI

MAY 7, 2024

Published last month, a HEPI Policy Note on ‘Non-continuation of students in the UK’ observed that continuation rates differ according to such factors as ethnicity, disability, deprivation and free school meals status. These challenges have meanwhile been making headlines in the HE sector news.

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The PIE News

MARCH 28, 2024

After hearing from politicians , educators and industry experts at The PIE Live Europe, delegates were joined by 25 international students to share their views o n the sector from the ground.

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The PIE News

JULY 6, 2023

The change is despite the country not hosting highly-ranked universities, in what authorities attribute to low fees, affordable cost of living compared to other European destinations and an easy visa application process. The Study in Georgia initiative was set up in 2016.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

Moving the University Forward When Rick Bailey assumed the presidency of Southern Oregon University in January 2022, his most urgent order of business was fixing the institution’s bleak financial situation. SOU has been squeezed by declining enrollment, stagnant state funding and increasing pension and health-care costs.

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HEPI

MARCH 1, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Leo Hanna, Executive Vice President at TechnologyOne Cost-of-living and student welfare have dominated the UK headlines of late, with the cost of food, energy and accommodation outpacing maintenance support. This revealed that students have seen their cost of living rise by 12.3%

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HEPI

MAY 17, 2023

There is, however, much more that can be done – both to tackle the climate crisis but also wider questions of creating a sustainable world in which we can live. The survey showed that over 60% have some engagement with their local community groups and businesses, with another 16% looking to expand activity.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

” BSC’s financial crisis dates back more than a decade. In 2010 it was discovered that errors in administering financial aid cost the college millions of dollars, which then prompted layoffs. Trending: Live Updates: liveupdates0 million lifeline, which lawmakers have not delivered , despite concerns of closure.

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HEPI

JANUARY 23, 2024

Academics are being forced out of the industry as pay and pensions fail to keep up with the cost of living. TechnologyOne has also found that students saw the cost of living rise by 13.6% This blog was kindly contributed by Leo Hanna, Executive Vice President at TechnologyOne.

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HEPI

MARCH 29, 2023

This year we asked questions about cost of living. Most people fear that the cost-of-living crisis will deter people from enrolling in higher education and a majority want to see student maintenance grants return. In the aftermath of the COVID19 pandemic, progress seems uncertain.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Sarra Jenkins , Director of Future Pathways at Loughborough Grammar School. I was delivering training to teaching staff this week about the perils and pitfalls of predicted grades. This is a question I spend a lot of time on with my students – ‘where will you be happy and ‘fit’?’.

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University Business

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation launched a new relief fund Monday aimed at Black college students, alumni and dropouts overburdened by mounting education costs and the student loan debt crisis. The post BLM sets up student relief fund as loan forgiveness stalls appeared first on University Business.

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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

1 Tackling the Escalating Student Mental Health & Wellbeing Crisis Looking back on the early days of the pandemic it was clear that issues impacting student mental health & well-being would persist beyond mask mandates and social distancing.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 17, 2023

Just before Christmas, The New York Times published an ostensibly feel-good story about a Syrian refugee who built a massively successful chocolate business in Canada. Canada is facing an acute healthcare crisis because of a shortage of skilled workers. But the story buries the lede. But situations change.

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The PIE News

JULY 14, 2023

“I’m pleased to report that the data points towards some positive trajectories for our participating institutions, as well as a more optimistic picture regionally and globally,” said Nick Pidgeon, business unit director, surveys and benchmarking at Tribal i-graduate. .

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The PIE News

MARCH 3, 2023

Providers in the country are optimistic for the year ahead, despite facing ongoing challenges around accommodation, staffing and the cost of living crisis. Total student weeks were up by 28,000, with the overall student week volume in the last quarter of 2022 reaching around 56% of 2019 levels.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Student debt forgiveness—if ultimately allowed by the Supreme Court to go into effect—will not be enough to address the crisis of college affordability. For too many learners, higher education is just too costly—and risky—of an investment. times higher than 30 years ago, even after adjusting for inflation.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 3, 2023

Over 350 professionals from the international education sector gathered on the Gold Coast in July at the inaugural PIE Live Australia for two days of discussions, upskilling and networking. As a result, she began her own business, which she still runs today.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

It is the fourth most commonly cited reason after the cost of higher education (81 percent), inflation (77 percent) and work conflicts (69 percent). All of those things—they feel stressed out and so busy and the idea of then enrolling in college or a credentialing program on top of that is overwhelming.” They have families.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The Dearing report in 1997 had acknowledged that both state and individuals benefit from higher education and both should bear some of the cost and risk, (as should employers in Dearing’s view). These shifts amount to a slow transfer of costs from the state to the individual.

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HEPI

AUGUST 29, 2023

This is perhaps the most uncertain cycle since full cost fees were introduced in 2012. 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. a) In 2020, the long demographic decline in 18-year olds ended.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That the humanities are in crisis will surprise exactly no one. Instead, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, students seem to have shifted their view of what they should be studying—in a largely misguided effort to enhance their chances on the job market. What’s behind this decline?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Before we start down this slippery slope, let’s consider what we can do to address the assumptions and change the crisis narrative surrounding the humanities. To start, though, I agree that tuition structures need an overhaul and, ideally, would be covered by federal or state funding.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It fails to meet the needs of students, graduates, universities, and business. At the same time, maintenance funding has decreased in real terms amidst a cost-of-living crisis, and the system for graduate repayments is becoming less progressive. Find him on LinkedIn. But the incentives did not follow.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

percent), and professional and business services (2.2 Yes, and among graduate students at Brown, Harvard, MIT, NYU and, most recently, Yale. Union membership rates are lowest in financial activities (1.9 percent), leisure and hospitality (2.2 Labor activism has surged at universities since 2013, adding about 120 new faculty chapters.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In September, HEPI, with support from the University of Sunderland, hosted a roundtable dinner on the future of medical education in the UK. When the then health secretary, Thérèse Coffey, unveiled her winter plan, criticism focused on her failure to address shortages in the NHS workforce. Regional transformation. What has helped?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

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. The financial crisis also made the academy inescapably aware of a basic fact: that most students had to work while they earned their degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Bright There are certain conditions in our lives and in our communities that we can no longer wait to change. When the representative from the service department came back after inspecting my car, she had a list of recommended repairs that included a major revamp of the car’s braking system. I was going to make it happen no matter what.

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The PIE News

MARCH 13, 2023

English UK, representing 450+ schools in the country, highlighted that it is not only the cost associated with having to obtain passports post Brexit that is leading learners to look elsewhere. It’s a very good country to be working and living and studying in,” he said. “They are no [immigration] risk whatsoever.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

To cut costs, many counseling centers have made problematic compromises in their essential service of talk therapy, either severely limiting the number and regularity of appointments or eliminating face-to-face treatment altogether. For years we have been discussing well-documented concerns about the mental health of college students.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

“The primary goal of the emergency meeting for me [was] to put the heat on our administration to be responsive to our students and to urgently fix these issues and not treat it as business as usual. Alan Wong, president of the board, said the current classroom conditions are unacceptable.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

Image: A new network of academics, college presidents, bipartisan policy makers and business leaders released a report Wednesday calling attention to a decade-long decline in college enrollment among Black students and its ripple effects on the country. Margaret Spellings, formerly the U.S. secretary of education under President George W.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Would you buy a house or a vehicle without carefully assessing how much either cost relative to the impact the investment will have on your life—now and in the future? Over their four-year undergraduate experience, students live and learn in London, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Hyderabad, San Francisco, Seoul, and Taipei. Minerva is a U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Colleges and universities experienced a surge in ransomware attacks in 2021, and those attacks had significant operational and financial costs. But three days later, he saw a brief post from the university indicating that the institution was experiencing technical difficulties. 31,” a statement on the Whitworth website said.

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University Business

AUGUST 25, 2023

His most notable contribution to the school system was spurring record enrollment rates, thanks to his implementation of a two-year tuition freeze and full-cost financial aid packages for under-resourced students. And the most recent smattering of presidents to soon depart is a stark reminder of that. Why was it ever revoked?

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2024

During the pandemic, students in high school, as well as other digital natives, honed their abilities to respond to technical content delivery while balancing the need to work and sustain their daily lives through a personalized schedule. 1 concern of students is cost, but a close second is simply that they don’t like going to school.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MARCH 15, 2023

But then there's maintenance of the cost, not only our classrooms and labs, but also our dining facilities, our residence halls. And although we definitely have the discussions as a 'we,' eventually, a decision has to be made, and that decision has to be carried on the shoulders of the chancellor. Sit down with the lawyers.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The biggest fear was rising global inflation as 87% of agents said the cost of living was the biggest student concern right now. The latest ICEF Agent Voice survey compared perspectives of over 400 student recruitment agencies from 81 countries and was launched at ICEF Berlin last month.

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