The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rejections from the Universities Central Council on Admissions (UCCA) were coming thick and fast. I spent nearly 40 years working in further education colleges and Birkbeck was my role model for second-chance learners. From 1980, I was developing access courses to break down the barriers for adults to get to university.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The IFS’s annual look at education spending reveals that further education and sixth form colleges could experience particular hardship, with rising numbers of students after steep cuts in funding until 2019, which have only been partially reversed by the government. Continue reading.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 5, 2024

The research found that less than half of higher education participants – 45% – felt the funding provided by Turing covered at least half of their costs on placement. This figure was higher for further education and vocational education and training participants at 86%.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Mark Jeynes, Partner and Head of Education & Training Practice, CIL Management Consultants. In this blog, we highlight the important role that Alternative Providers of Higher Education (‘Alternative Providers’ or ‘APs’) can play as partners to traditional universities.

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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. Clearly not all universities in the UK are over 100 years old but they seem solidly to meet these criteria.

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HESA

APRIL 20, 2023

I’m Alex Usher and this is The World of Higher Education podcast. In higher education, where scale matters a lot, small size puts a crimp in what you can do. This was also true with respect to higher education. But falling meant the higher education sector could learn from other countries’ success and mistakes.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The Scottish government has released its first comprehensive International Education Strategy, promising plans to attract more staff and activity to promote universities and colleges internationally. “Scotland already has more top universities per head of population than any other country in the world,” Dey said.

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Wonkhe

MARCH 17, 2024

For David Hughes, the Australian Universities Accord holds up a mirror to the challenges facing England’s tertiary education sector The post Going tertiary down under appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. Saleema is one of more than 126,000 students, including nearly 17,000 refugees, studying at this tuition-free, nonprofit online university with an all-volunteer faculty.

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HEPI

JULY 24, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Sir Chris Husbands, Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University. Keir Starmer has committed Labour to five ambitious missions, of which the fifth is squarely focused on educational transformation. Politicians should think big. They should think about the next frontier.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The Universities Accord – a major 12-month long review into Australian higher education – has released its report with a bold call for up to 80% of Australians to be tertiary-education by 2050. Another central tenet of the report is more seamless integration between vocational and university delivery.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The Commons debated ‘Higher Education’ on 28 November 2012. This piece is the second part of two on the topic of institutional autonomy. It remains important.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Buttle UK’s grants provide essential items for children’s education, homes and wellbeing. Nevertheless, we know that most young people interact with education settings at least until the age of 18, meaning that higher and further education settings can be primary actors in driving change.

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The PIE News

MAY 7, 2023

The international education strategy for Scotland that the devolved assembly outlined in its 2021/22 program for government has still not been released, while a replacement for the Erasmus program has also been delayed. In 2020/21, non-EU students contributed £867m in tuition fees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

college enrollment is a lingering concern for both educators and policy makers. College and university student enrollment is down for the third straight year, 7% lower than it was in 2019. The prevalence of “Help Wanted” signs may have led some people to believe that further education and training may no longer be necessary.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 30, 2024

As well as rejoining the scheme, Erasmus+ funding should be reinstated to further education colleges and community organisations. The Conservative government said it would raise immigration fees – including for international students – to fund public sector pay rises last year.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 20, 2023

Supporting Student Success in Higher Education: A Comprehensive Guide editor Thu, 07/20/2023 - 04:08 Higher education is an exciting and transformative journey, offering students a wealth of opportunities for personal growth and academic achievement. This is where Student Success in Higher Education peeps in.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Where is the educational value in this? For the uninitiated, esports are mind-numbing, video games that have no place in education. This is a possibility to ingrain finance, tech, management, coaching, sponsorship and marketing into educating a group of students who may previously have been unengaged.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Efforts to widen higher education access have tended to focus on the provision of information and supportto those from under-represented backgrounds. The follow-up focused on two further subject areas. They included concerns over the cost of university-level study. by Neil Raven.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2023

T his post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The proposals of the Robbins Report on Higher Education considered the role of providers of tertiary education.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Liz Shutt, now Programme Director for the new Insights North East initiative at Newcastle and Northumbria Universities. Until recently Liz was Director of Policy for both the University of Lincoln and the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership. A systems approach to the civic university.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

by Neil Raven Introduction In a previous blog , I explored the reasons why some students on level 3 (advanced) professional and applied courses decide against higher education. Those whose views were sought came from a further education college (FEC) located in the East Midlands. Contact him at neil.d.raven@gmail.com.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Katherine Emms is a Senior Education & Policy Researcher at the Edge Foundation. The current shortage of high-skilled professionals has again placed vocational education centre stage. The topic waws explored recently by Gareth Parry, Professor Emeritus at University of Sheffield for Edge Foundation’s Learning from the Past series.

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The PIE News

MARCH 6, 2023

A qualifications recognition agreement between Australia and India to streamline education and career pathways was announced as a delegation of Australian education leaders visited the country. In July 2022, the UK and India agreed an MoU to recognise each other’s higher education qualifications.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The burden of student loan debt limits future finances of graduates of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). As such, college education is not fulfilling the promise of being a great equalizer and closing wealth gaps, according to a recent report.

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The PIE News

MAY 29, 2023

An ongoing marking boycott could prevent international students from staying in the UK once they graduate, a leading university has warned. The university has not clarified this with students. “I’m I’m kind of angry,” she said, adding that she supported the strikes and felt the university should do more to resolve them.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Global education provider Navitas has expanded its offer in Germany with a new partnership with private provider, SRH Universities Germany. The new SRH International College will be based at SRH University campus in Heidelberg. The new SRH International College will be based at SRH University campus in Heidelberg.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 31, 2024

It is a major study destination with four universities and several colleges within the city limits. A graduate of the University of Leeds, Abigail Marshall-Katung came to the UK to study politics in the year 2000. “My father always said, ‘you educate to serve’,”explained Marshall-Katung.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The northeastern Australian technical and further education provider has been using a new insight reporting tool to develop localised adverts targeting students in Japan and South Korea. It can also reference pre-existing data on higher education campaign performance to further enhance results.

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QS (Quacquarelli Symonds)

AUGUST 8, 2022

This year, the Wharton-QS Reimagine Education awards , an annual competition to reward innovation in higher education, will play host to a new category of awards: Values. . Apply for a 2022 Wharton-QS Reimagine Education award X. But why do diversity initiatives in higher education matter? .

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HEPI

APRIL 2, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Anna Anthony, Co-Director at the Higher Education Access Tracker (HEAT) Service. HEAT provides a collaborative system which enables member higher education providers to evaluate the work they deliver as part of their Access and Participation Plans as easily and efficiently as possible.

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The PIE News

JULY 3, 2023

The report , which aims to give “a pioneering overview” of the different channels through which international students enter UK undergraduate education, found that in 2021/22, almost half (46%) of all applicants submitted individual applications directly through UCAS’s online system.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

by Kat Emms For two years Edge Foundation has been drawing together lessons from past education policies. The polytechnics were designated in the 1960s as new institutions formed from existing technical and other colleges within the English further education system, and with one in Wales.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Leo Hanna, Executive Vice President at TechnologyOne Universities are in a difficult spot. Demand for higher education is high, with more and more young people seeing the value of a university education, which is obviously great news for the sector. The findings were rather sobering.

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The PIE News

JUNE 1, 2023

The UK says it has “recommitted” to the aims of its international education strategy days after the government announced plans to end rules allowing international taught masters students to bring dependants with them to the country. “There should be no doubt that we continue to champion and value international education.”

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

by Neil Raven Much attention is now directed towards the role of evaluation in efforts to widening higher education participation. These include young men from white, working class backgrounds, along with those taking vocational (applied general) courses and studying in further education colleges.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

college or university say their barriers have been to finishing their education over three years. college or university say their barriers have been to finishing their education over three years. People still valued post-secondary education and wanted to come back.

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