University Business

MAY 21, 2024

Election season has voters thinking about higher education reform and what lawmakers can do to reduce costs and improve outcomes, according to a new survey by Third Way , a center-left think tank based out of Washington D.C. More from UB: Higher ed funding: A look at 2 surprising trends The change U.S. The post U.S.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

Stakeholders in UK higher education are exploring a range of potential funding models for undergraduate education, against a backdrop of financial sustainability concerns, course cuts and redundancies for higher education institutions. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain.

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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 this year in particular, the pace of policy-making there has really sped up.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

India wants to internationalise its higher education system and tackle brain-drain, as set out in the 2020 National Education Policy , while foreign institutions are keen to capitalise on the growing demand from Indian students.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 4, 2022

As discussion swirls around the best way to address the growing gap in higher-level skills, one policy area we can learn much from is that around polytechnics. 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 12, 2024

In addition to outlining the benefits of pathway programs for students, the document also details their beneficial impact for universities, host countries and their economies, as well as sending countries. “We should celebrate the power and impact of pathway routes in transforming lives through education,” Smith added.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has 20 years’ experience in education policy research. The Labour Party is ahead in the polls and has been since December 2021. Lessons from the past.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

What is the Higher Education Council (HEC) in Bahrain? What is the Higher Education Council (HEC) in Bahrain? The HEC is a government-affiliated organization that was established to oversee the development of the higher education sector in Bahrain.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

Image: India’s publication of draft guidelines for foreign universities establishing branch campuses in the country has sparked concern among academics about potential infringements on institutional autonomy. They come amid soaring demand for higher education in the world’s fastest growing major economy.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

“Foreign students are an asset for France, for our higher education and our research,” wrote the association’s president in a thread about the removal of such measures. It also argued that obligatory checks on their programs categorised international students as part of illegal immigration networks.

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SRHE

JANUARY 17, 2024

What has this got to do with an academic conference on higher education? My own work is concerned with discourse and narratives on the idea and purpose of a university and its role in society. Both of these presentations and my wider interests look at discourse and narratives as data in higher education policy and practice.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The government of Australia has announced a ‘Universities Accord’ designed to build a long-term plan for the country’s higher education system. Minister for Education Jason Clare noted it is the “first broad review” of the system since the Bradley Review in 2008.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These actions reflect a concerted campaign to wrest control over America's classrooms away from the educators who are directly responsible for shaping the minds of future generations. However, their approach does not align with the broader vision of equity advocates striving to create an inclusive educational system.

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The PIE News

APRIL 25, 2023

In another provocative speech, Sanjeev Sanyal, from the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council , who works closely with prime minister Modi, questioned the role of “old-style, legacy” universities. “We We already have too many university campuses on the planet,” he continued. Slowly, we are making it easier,” Mittal said.

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The PIE News

MARCH 6, 2023

In July 2022, the UK and India agreed an MoU to recognise each other’s higher education qualifications. “This agreement locks in the rules for mutual recognition to access education in both our countries, including the qualifications we provide online and offshore,” Australian minister for Education Jason Clare said. .

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2024

There is nothing novel about the current approaches to improving access, quality and equity in higher education. Higher education’s best differentiator is delivering on the promise of quality for students. Several universities and colleges are intentionally localizing the world’s stage.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

A senior at the University of New Orleans (UNO), she will graduate in May with a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies and has aspirations of pursuing an MBA. Malajah Lopez, a young mother of two, delivered a powerful speech at the opening plenary of the conference. In 2018 at the age of 17, Lopez learned that she was pregnant.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The PIE caught up with industry leaders across international and higher education to find out their predictions for 2024. Leadership, AI, skills and mindfulness will be the main drivers reshaping education around the world,” Sevak shared with The PIE. “AI start-ups will be funded at higher rates. .

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

German universities can expect international first-year students to offset stagnating or even further declining numbers of first semester German students by 2026, new analysis has suggested. The development of total first-year students at German universities since the 2011/12 peak.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Image: Representative Virginia Foxx is planning to leverage the decline in public perception of higher education to usher in a new era of stronger accountability for the nation’s colleges and universities in her role as chairwoman of the House education committee.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 21, 2023

The latest analysis compiled by the Higher Education Policy Institute shows that in 2023, 65 world leaders are graduates of US higher education institutions, a decline of two on last year’s figures. Australian leader Anthony Albanese is a graduate of the University of Sydney.

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HEPI

APRIL 5, 2023

I know higher education policy can be slow but the school pupils applying to higher education when the Augar report came out graduated last summer. That’s how snail-like higher education policy has been in recent years, thanks to all the political turmoil.) The stretch on resources.

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The PIE News

JUNE 22, 2023

The US and India should establish new joint research institutes and scale up student-based research collaboration and exchanges, leading US university leaders have recommended. The Association of American Universities Task Force, launched earlier this year , has included the suggestions among nine recommendations in a new report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2024

The fight against discrimination and systemic racism is far from over. Moving forward, we must redouble our efforts to promote diversity, inclusion, and cultural acceptance in all aspects of our education system. Creating a more equitable and inclusive education system requires sustained advocacy, education, and solidarity.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

But it is a mere entry point into a more complex conversation about the systemic issues of inequity afflicting higher education today. Absent more broad-based action by educators, colleges and policy makers, these times will come to represent a period of stagnation for equity in higher education.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This blog was contributed by Andrew Croydon, Director of Skills & Education Policy and Examinations at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI). How many students should go to university, and what courses should they study when they’re there? A new government, but the same old debate.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

Nigel Thrift, The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities – The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick takes aim at research universities for being too big, too focused on students and too uninterested in grand ideas. And if the government won’t do it, universities should.’

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At the time, the impending fiftieth anniversary of the Robbins report of 1963 was on our minds, including its core principle : ‘courses of higher education should be available for all those who are qualified by ability and attainment to pursue them and who wish to do so.’.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since. This article looks back at the report and considers what the lessons might be for politicians, officials and higher education leaders contemplating a future review.

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

Post-EU Referendum turmoil in the UK (and the EU) continues, for all sorts of reasons, but soon more serious and sustained assessment of the post-Brexit landscape for UK universities will occur. In such a context here is the question to consider: is an Oxbridge-Lille (a joint Cambridge-Oxford university) or equivalent (e.g.,

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HEPI

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Professor Mark Sterling, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Birmingham, and Dr Lia Blaj-Ward , Associate Professor (Teaching & Scholarship) at Nottingham Trent University. Some months into writing our book we came across Chris Brink’s The Soul of a University (2018).

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Image: The Florida Department of Education and the chancellor of the State University System of Florida gathered the leaders of nearly 40 state institutions in Tallahassee Dec. Inside Higher Ed contacted more than 20 colleges and universities seeking details about last week’s meeting.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Pro vice-chancellors and university directors step out of the vehicle one by one, school-trip style. Top international universities have been invited to set up alongside the investment banks and management consultancies that are quickly populating the city’s soaring skyscrapers.

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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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SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

At the next level, what we used to call further and higher education will be swept away to create a new Higher Skills curriculum. We committed to a second phase of the project (HS2) through legislation in the Higher Education and Research Act in 2017. But now we need to change course.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

Today’s HEPI blog is the text of a speech by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to a joint meeting of the Senate and Council at Lancaster University. It is a great pleasure to be back at Lancaster University. Back to the future I hope you will let me begin with some history.

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GlobalHigherEd

JANUARY 14, 2018

Morshidi was the former Director-General of Higher Education Malaysia, and is now Director of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Facility (CTEF) based at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. Morshidi is also a Senior Research Fellow at the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN), Universiti Sains Malaysia.

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