HEPI

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Robert Crammond, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS). Universities are driven by several factors, from teaching and student satisfaction to the demands of the local business community , as well as the push to respond to social and technological change.

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HEPI

JANUARY 17, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Francesca Peruzzo, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham; Rille Raaper, Associate Professor, Durham University; and Mette Westander, Founding Director, Disabled Students UK. Disabled students also continue to endure discrimination and worse experiences than other students in higher education.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Members of staff in the modern languages department at the University of Aberdeen – and beyond – are campaigning against proposals to cut language and culture degree programs at the university. “We have established a Steering Group which will bring forward plans for consultation in due course,” they continued.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Troy is a Fulbright Scholar and Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester’s Institute of Education. Troy’s research focuses on higher education leadership and administration, with a particular focus on investigating the inequities that persist in the sector.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

The disdain shown to us by Queen Mary University of London inspired me to redouble my efforts on the picket lines. Staff and students have had enough On 29 June 2022, all the staff at Queen Mary University of London, where I work, received an email from management. I hadn’t always felt so jaded. Continue reading.

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HEPI

JANUARY 9, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Jeff Frank, Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London and Norman Gowar, Professor Emeritus at the University of London. HEPI has published the third version of its analysis of the economic benefits of our universities hosting overseas students. of postgraduates).

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In this response, I want to do three things: pick and connect some particularly fruitful points from each talk – there were many, so this is hard; comment on assemblages and assemblage thinking in relation to current and future learning arrangements, and segue into the practical work of realising better spaces for learning in better universities.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 28, 2023

While concerned parents and guardians plus placement agents have long complained about the trend, university managers are now also coming out, blaming the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada for the dipping numbers. “Clearly, reforms are urgent not only to streamline the policy but to educate IRCC officers.

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PeopleAdmin

AUGUST 17, 2023

Data and analytics are more important than ever to colleges and universities today. In today’s rapidly evolving higher education landscape, institutions are embracing data-driven strategies to further their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. If you’re interested in the power of data, reach out to our team.

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SRHE

JANUARY 4, 2024

Indeed, a quick dip into some of the recent TEF feedback summaries to higher education institutions seems to suggest that use of learning analytics is valued by TEF panels. Over the past few years, we’ve been analysing some of the data generated from Aston University. But can we learn more from the data to influence teaching practice?

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University Business

MARCH 20, 2023

With high inflation, failing banks and rounds of layoffs across industries, many colleges and universities may be concerned about what kind of job market their graduating students will face. sought further education, which led to a 98.9% How Villanova turns student degrees into jobs appeared first on University Business.

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HEPI

JULY 25, 2023

Videos recently emerged of disruption to graduation ceremonies at the University of Edinburgh. 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.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I think you could say a new paradigm for university leadership (or management) arose when league tables came along. League tables changed all that: managers were, often, told to do whatever it took to change the metric for which they were responsible. A new management paradigm had emerged.

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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.

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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. How are others using those spaces?

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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? Simply put, EAB U.

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HEPI

JULY 27, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Peter Nikoletatos , TechnologyOne Global Industry General Manager for Education and Adjunct Professor. Data Futures is sector-wide transformation programme that sees every Higher Education Institution in the UK report in detail on student-level data to regulators.

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The PIE News

MAY 2, 2024

Universities in the UK, Australia and Canada have announced staff layoffs and course suspensions as government policies limiting international student numbers cause increasing financial strain. As of April 30, 55 institutions have confirmed cuts, with several thousand academic and administrative posts forecast to be lost in the coming months.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The simple truth is that the average student leaves university with £45,800 of debt and if they have nothing to show for it then we have failed them” (Hansard, 2021). by Peter Wolstencroft, Elizabeth Whitfield and Track Dinning.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

Drumm McNaughton speaks with economist and investment manager David Linton about his findings from his upcoming book, Crushed: How Student Debt Has Impaired a Generation and What to Do About It. In 1969, the cost of public college education was $1,545 per year, 19% of the median household income. This addresses only 30% of the problem.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: The reaction was swift when an anonymous student wrote “Black people suck” on a library whiteboard at American University in February. ” An official of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression wrote a letter to university president Sylvia M.

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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?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

Image: An enrollment surge at Tennessee State University combined with a lack of student housing led to a scathing comptroller’s report calling for a change in the historically Black university’s leadership. Lowe voted in favor of the one-year extension. million, from $5.2 million the previous year.

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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”). Then comes this startling pivot: “ The steady disinvestment in the liberal arts risks turning America’s universities into vocational schools narrowly focused on professional training.

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