HEPI

JULY 25, 2023

Universities and unions are in a standoff, and the scenes demonstrate how emotionally charged and bitter the dispute has become. The problem of collective bargaining A popular trend is to blame universities for their failure to negotiate. In theory, collective bargaining can be in the interests of both universities and unions.

Higher Education 52

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SRHE

JULY 19, 2023

At the time of writing there seems little prospect of rapprochement between the employers and the Universities and Colleges Union. 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.

Higher Education 52

Higher Education Degree Education Students 52

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. I finished my PhD in law in 2016 and was ready to begin a life of service in education and research, working in the subject I cared passionately about. I hadn’t always felt so jaded. But several things quickly became clear.

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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.

Leadership 52

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EAB

JUNE 20, 2023

But this topline growth pattern offers only an incomplete picture of what’s going on, setting college and university leaders up to miss the real challenges and make the wrong course corrections. How many of them end up enrolling in any college or university? How many of those who enroll end up at your institution?

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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.

Arts And Sciences 52

Arts And Sciences Technology Engineering Liberal Arts 52

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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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The speaker of these words was the then Minister for Higher and Further Education, Michelle Donelan and the sentiment underpins many of the current mechanisms used for assessing quality in English HE. A key consequence of this shift has been a reimagining of the relationship between the student and the institution.

Higher Education 60

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

Research shows that students who must incur debt to attend college have lower GPAs, more health issues both before and after graduation, are less likely to buy a house, will get married and have children later in life, are less likely to start a business, and are less entrepreneurial.

Higher Education 52

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

But the university’s longtime president, Glenda Glover, alumni and other supporters of the Nashville institution have argued against a proposal that would place the institution under the oversight of the Tennessee Board of Regents, the governing board for 37 technical and community colleges in the state.

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SRHE

JULY 11, 2022

First, take stock of the damage to the machinery of government, both in the Department for Education and the Office for Students. At the time of writing the new Universities Minister has yet to be named. As we survey the present carnage [2] in government, what are vice-chancellors to do? Now all bets are off.

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

Devereaux entitled “ Colleges Should be More than Just Vocational Schools ” (where “college” is being used in the American sense of “undergraduate education”). First of all, around the world, there are some quite good universities which do not offer programs in the humanities. He just said students should have access.

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