The PIE News

JANUARY 10, 2024

The University of Hull has launched a new London Study Centre in partnership with Cambridge Education Group. This is the first partnership of its kind for CEG, but it does have another division – ONCAMPUS – that offers pre university study options in London.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

Union claims up to a quarter of all academic roles at financially pressed London institution face the axe Plans for mass redundancies at Goldsmiths, University of London, have been called a “horrifying act of cultural and social vandalism” and the “biggest assault on jobs at any UK university in recent years”.

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The PIE News

MARCH 14, 2024

Chinese education agency EIC recently celebrated the opening of its London office with university and sector partners. The new London office, opened in November 2023, is EIC’s second UK office, after the first was established in Manchester back in 2017.

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The PIE News

APRIL 5, 2024

How much would the majority of people think one year of a UK education costs? At The PIE Live Europe, international students revealed how much they were really spending on their education in the UK during a roundtable. Around £10,000? Maybe £15,000 at a push? Think again. Now at UCL, the total I believe I’m spending is around £65,000.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2024

Jeremi London Jeremi London has been named assistant provost of academic opportunity and belonging in the Office of Undergraduate Education at Vanderbilt University. She served as associate professor of engineering education at Virginia Tech. in engineering education, all from Purdue University.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As education practitioners, we must consistently reimagine the delivery of secondary education and how it will meet the needs of both higher learning experiences, and of course, the future of work. We empower our teaching faculty and student body to use their unique experiences as assets to meet the challenges of our changing world.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Laura Brammar , Deputy Head of the University of London Careers Service and Victoria Wade , Director of the University of London Career Service. Indeed the workplace is progressively a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary space.

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HEPI

MARCH 8, 2024

HEPI Director Nick Hillman sums up the discussions heard during the last fortnight’s HEPI / London Economics / Nuffield Foundation events across the UK. Over the past two weeks, HEPI has hosted events in London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff in conjunction with the Nuffield Foundation and London Economics. It’s a wrap!

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Using insights from this research, we’ll explore how technology can create a more inclusive learning environment for all students in the post-pandemic higher education landscape. Academic, pre-92 university. Professor McLay explained that ‘Inclusive practice is axiomatic to digital practice’ at the university.

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The PIE News

APRIL 12, 2024

Cambridge Education Group has partnered with Galileo Global Education in France on a new international foundation program in art and design. The partnership has been established to accommodate growing demand, according to Brendan Webb, CEO for Commercial at Cambridge Education Group.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A London medical school has signed a merger agreement with one of the capital’s leading universities, bidding to create a “world-class institution”. City St George’s, which combines City, University of London and St. In 2021/22, of the university’s 4,825 total students, 285 were international.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Topping the charts is former Universities Minister Jo Johnson with his June piece on the importance of international students to UK higher education. Several blogs from previous years continue to do well – not least Rachel Hewitt’s (sadly) timeless piece ‘ Mind the gap: gender differences in higher education ’.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

A new report detailing the experience of students in London has suggested data on international student wellbeing needs to be more streamlined across institutions, among other findings. The document says London students do an average of 6.41 hours of internships and placements. The English average is only 5.57.

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HEPI

MAY 2, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Fariba Soetan, Head of Policy and Research at the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU). Positioned at the forefront of this major task is higher education, assuming a pivotal role in shaping the world’s response through leadership, research, and the facilitation of learning and teaching.

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2024

Broderick, Vice-Chancellor & President at the University of East London. The impact of the earliest years of life BusinessLDN – the independent voice of business in London – has recently published a report with KPMG and the Central District Alliance analysing the business impact of the lack of affordable, quality childcare.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Union says cuts will make the creative powerhouse unrecognisable and risk unprecedented industrial unrest Staff at Goldsmiths, University of London have voted to strike over plans for an “almost incomprehensible” number of redundancies , a trade union has announced.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Moss, Pro Vice Chancellor Education and Student Experience, London South Bank University and Chair, London Uni Connect. Regulators Committee expressed surprise at the university regulator’s assessment that our finances are “in good shape”. Data from 2020 shows we spend 2% of GDP on higher education.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As more UK universities sign the Agent Quality Framework pledge in light of recent sector controversy, a risk framework is set to be added to the initiative. Some 5,200 of those are now certified – a number that is expected to grow as more universities sign the AQF. The next update will be around financial compliance and risk.

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The PIE News

APRIL 4, 2024

Following this, at London Higher we hosted our own roundtable with colleagues at ApplyBoard, which ran a comparative analysis on the top four destinations (London, Toronto, Sydney and New York), over four topics: Policy, Process, Place and Price. The message was clear: we must do more to remain at the top.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

The equation powering cyber insurance coverage for higher education institutions isn’t adding up the way it used to. In some cases, such as in the insurance marketplace Lloyd’s of London,…

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

Sanders holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Miami Coral Gables, a master’s degree in international business law from the University of London, and a juris doctor degree from the Catholic University of America Washington, D.C.

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HEPI

JANUARY 4, 2024

Professor Guo spent 34 years at Imperial College London studying AI, data mining, machine learning, and large-scale data management before becoming Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2022. UK universities, too, must pivot from cautious observers to active adopters.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Evaristo, along with former students and writers, issued a plea to Goldsmiths to reconsider the removal of “pioneering” postgraduate courses after plans were announced to cut the jobs in 11 departments. Continue reading.

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HEPI

MAY 8, 2024

We mean having around enough income to be safe, warm and decently fed, to be able to buy necessary course-related items and to be able to get involved with the non-academic side of university life, perhaps by joining a society or two. By ‘need to live’ we don’t mean just avoiding poverty; nor do we mean living in plush comfort.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

London universities need to help international students foster a sense of belonging when they study in the city, as well as ease cost pressures, according to a new policy note. It did say, however, that London universities “generally live up to” the high expectations international students have in terms of academic experience.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

the proud sponsor of the Times Higher Education Award for the Outstanding Library Team for the second year in a row.? . Widely known as the “Oscars of higher education”, this year marks the 18th?annual? Lancaster University . University of St Andrews . Staffordshire University . University of Strathclyde.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Stakeholders in the UK are establishing an International Education Commission in a bid to convene and propose future policy on the country’s future international education strategy. “Now more than ever before the sector needs a clear vision of what our international education strategy needs to be,” he noted.

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The PIE News

APRIL 29, 2024

The UK’s Education Committee has launched an inquiry into international students in English universities. The inquiry will see the committee examine the changes in numbers of international students in recent years, the impact of international students on university funding and the availability of places for domestic students.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

MAY 22, 2023

To mark a decade as pioneers of digital innovation, we held a free in-person event for the higher education sector. Kortext Live — digital education: the future now!’

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The PIE News

JUNE 27, 2023

My international education and research experience is a major part of what has shaped me, and it is what drives me as a sector leader today to stand up for the many international students choosing to make the UK part of their own educational journeys. This is the ‘soft power’ legacy of my international higher education.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Her piece split opinion but generated a lively debate, which is of course HEPI’s purpose as the UK’s only dedicated higher education think tank. Her piece split opinion but generated a lively debate, which is of course HEPI’s purpose as the UK’s only dedicated higher education think tank.

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The PIE News

APRIL 25, 2024

The University of Chester was crowned international university of the year at the 2024 Whatuni Student Choice Awards in London on April 24. In 12 categories, the University of Sheffield was named University of the Year, as well as top for Students’ Union.

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HEPI

JUNE 18, 2023

Heller , Emeritus Professor at the Universities of Manchester, UK and Newcastle, Australia. The HEPI Annual Conference is our flagship annual event and is taking place in central London on Thursday (22 June 2023). A 2019 UNESCO report encourages member states to openly license educational resources developed with public funds.

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. Just ten years ago, in the words of Wired magazine, Sebastian Thrun declared that ‘ In 50 years … there will be only ten institutions in the world delivering higher education ’.

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The PIE News

APRIL 25, 2023

Expect disruption and new modes of innovative education but now is the time for international education providers to go to India, was the clear message at the Acumen Global Gateway conference in Delhi. The current model of international education for India needs to change… The one-way traffic needs to change,” he said.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

MCC is reportedly eyeing an outpost in London. Here’s what you can expect if you’re tempted by its inducements Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), the conservative Hungarian educational institution funded by Viktor Orbán’s rightwing government, has been expanding internationally. Continue reading.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In a recent video conference, Chris Rowell engaged Helen McAllister and Jo Bloxham from the University of the Arts London (UAL) Language Centre in an enlightening discussion about the use of machine translation tools by university students. Interestingly, students generally favored guidance over strict regulation.

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