HEPI

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Few would argue with the statements above, least not me as those who know me would testify, but the same could be said of UK higher education. International students are vital to higher education and the UK – they bring global perspectives, talent, and skills to every part of our country. billion a year.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Making Higher Education Work for All Students A Conversation With Becky Takeda-Tinker, President, Colorado State University Global bridget Thu, 09/14/2023 - 06:00 Higher Ed Leadership Remote Learning Weekly Wisdom Online learning became a critical component for many institutions during COVID. She holds a Ph.D.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

We hope this new way of working will motivate and stimulate debates around everything digital in higher education. We will organise the network’s work and events along three themes each year, chosen to reflect key issues in research and teaching currently. DU convenors will organise a launching event for each theme.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 30, 2022

As the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill returns to Parliament today, HEPI is running two blogs on the issue. Boggs, University Clerk at Kingston University and Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPs). This blog was kindly contributed by Andrew.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I was excited to attend SRHE’s event, Bridging The Gap: Improving The Relationship Between Higher Education Research And Policy on 4 November 2022. The event promised to bring together and bridge the gap between those making higher education policy and those researching it.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 15, 2024

On the heels of India’s National Education Policy 2020, a recent think tank run by the government of India highlights the country’s dedication to establishing the region as a leading global hub of education with an emphasis on continued internationalisation and collaboration with foreign institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The proclamation positioned HSIs as essentially important after the Supreme Court’s June decision to wipe out race-conscious admissions policies. HSI Week is typically marked on campuses with awareness-raising events that highlight the work that HSIs do to serve Hispanic and Latinx students.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Andrew Boggs, Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies and University Clerk at Kingston University. This may include having an internal complaints procedure and process as presented above.

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The PIE News

APRIL 19, 2023

In what seems to be government-to-government deal, India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar presided over the inauguration of the campus on April 12, in an event attended by high level delegations. On the other hand, the number of overseas students enrolled in Indian higher education institutions fell by 2.6%

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University Grant Scholarship Educational Policy Higher Education 77

HEPI

MAY 7, 2024

Published last month, a HEPI Policy Note on ‘Non-continuation of students in the UK’ observed that continuation rates differ according to such factors as ethnicity, disability, deprivation and free school meals status. These challenges have meanwhile been making headlines in the HE sector news.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As the work of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in higher education has expanded, several institutions have recognized the need to create a clearer and more comprehensive pathway for individuals interested in serving as DEI advocates and leaders.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

The hostile takeover of public higher education in Florida continues, as seen in the latest higher education bill introduced in the state’s House of Representatives. However, that stance ignores the nature of the working relationship between professors and their employers.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

These remarks were made by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to yesterday’s Centre for Global Higher Education ( CGHE ) event marking the recent twenty-fifth anniversary of the Dearing report. Early on, one of our first reports concerned the personal and public economic benefits of higher education.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A new scholarship program for talented young Indian researchers, four university partnerships and an India-Australia education plan have all been unveiled as high-profile leaders met in India this week. “That is nation changing stuff,” he said, likening the projections to how higher education has changed in previous decades.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

HEPI has marked the event with a Policy Note on the influence of the Robbins Report and a blog series – you can access all the material here. The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since. The Times Were A-Changin!

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Humanities Higher Education History Policy 98

HEPI

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

How to Enable the Employability of University Graduates , edited by Saskia Loer Hansen and Kathy Daniels, presents a compilation of best practices for enabling employability within higher education (HE). They enlist contributions from 60 authors at the forefront of employability delivery within HE. How do we measure employability?

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HEPI

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Previously a mooted buzzword, being ‘enterprising’ is now a necessity within educational settings. Entrepreneurship is represented by stand-alone (short) courses and even as a category within annual higher education awards. Entrepreneurial universities should provide professional development for staff. The UK scene.

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Guidance University Policy Higher Education 72

Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The agreements raised questions, as the Times put it, “about whether promoting gambling on campus—especially to people who are at an age when they are vulnerable to developing gambling disorders—fits the mission of higher education.” The university is a city-state and an educational institution.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2023

These are far more extensive than HEFCE possessed in its role of ‘buffer’ between Government and providers of higher education and Must do Better is concerned that the OfS has been adding to them. The Operational Measures count Reportable Events; Notifications; Registration; Degree awarding powers, and time taken to resolve these.

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Students Higher Education Degree Policy 66

HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

My side of the debate went down to a crushing defeat, but the event was followed by further (good-natured) argument in a local pub, showing lively student-promoted free speech in action.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This is despite an increasing focus on civic universities over recent years within the higher education sector. For example, the language of playing a civic leadership role, with which we are very comfortable in higher education policy circles, does not always sit so well with local authority colleagues.

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University Policy Inclusivity Leadership 60

The Guardian - Higher Education

JULY 17, 2023

Water industry | South East Water has reported a pre-tax loss of nearly £75m , which it blamed in part on the cost of dealing with last year’s “extreme weather events” including the record-breaking heatwave. Continue reading.

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Degree Policy Students Educational Policy 72

Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Psychology explains that humans frequently make decisions guided by short-term rewards rather than long-term rewards, and they are likely to discount delayed events. Therefore, in the postsecondary education arena, institutional decision-makers respond to short-term budgeting rewards.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

While major events such as the pandemic and Brexit have undoubtedly played a part in this, there are also longer-term factors that have contributed to the country reaching this position. Naturally, one of the questions being increasingly asked of the UK higher education sector is how it is helping to resolve some of the latter issues.

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Disadvantaged Higher Education Degree Policy 52

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

” A “group of faculty,” added Burbules, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, “is not the same thing as a department. ” (Burbules has contributed opinion pieces to Inside Higher Ed.). But having the conversation is a first step.”

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Department Guidance Policy Faculty 96

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Dr. Erika D.

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SRHE

APRIL 12, 2024

In the SRHE event Exploring graduate outcomes: Do we need to look beyond earnings and occupation? , Yet, research examining the aspirations of higher education students indicates that they want a career that uses their skills, aligns with their ambitions and that can enable them to make impact.

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Guidance Higher Education Policy Inclusivity 56

HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

There were a lot of warm words expressed about both HEPI and Wonkhe at last week’s Society for Research into Higher Education ( SRHE ) event on bridging academia and policymaking. It was clear from the various senior speakers present that both organisations have filled a gap in providing accessible policy-focused information.

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Students Higher Education Policy Disadvantaged 70

HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The event was introduced by the chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Adult Education, Margaret Greenwood MP, who said that a gender pay gap and class ceiling in many sectors for disadvantaged women had been exacerbated by Covid, its aftermath and cost-of-living crisis – and this event was timely.

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Disadvantaged Further Education Policy Higher Education 98

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Policy It’s hard to believe that we are already halfway through January! I’m also excited to attend a somewhat related event next week—Ending Hunger in Massachusetts. Wealth, Cost, and Price in American Higher Education: A Brief History (2023)—Bruce A. Wechsler and Steven J.

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History Higher Education Policy Deans 42

HEPI

JULY 31, 2023

In the spring of 2002 I approached Sir Howard Newby, recently appointed Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), where I had been Policy Director for more than 10 years, with the proposition that HEFCE might support me in establishing a think tank devoted to higher education policy analysis.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In a closing members’ discussion, we noted that higher education is connected to all of the big political topics of our moment, but rarely seems to be acknowledged by politicians as such. A few weeks ago, we attended an event hosted by Public First and their partners Pearson about preparing for the next election.

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SRHE

MARCH 14, 2023

by GR Evans Under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act higher education providers and students’ unions will be required to publish Codes of Practice on freedom of speech. The Bill sets out the requirements separately for higher education providers (at A2 (2)(c)) and for students’ unions (at A6(2)(c)).

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Higher Education Education Department Students 52

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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Students Policy Higher Education Educational Policy 117

SRHE

APRIL 20, 2023

by Phil Pilkington In March 2023 Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), wrote a review of Freedom of Speech in Universities: Islam, Charities and Counter-terrorism by Alison Scott-Baumann and Simon Perfect (both SOAS), covering freedom of speech, populism (of the left and right), ‘no platforming’, and students.

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Students Policy Arts And Sciences Higher Education 74

GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

Or might an equivalent of Cornell Tech NYC be worth creating in European higher education and research space? Hearing 2 – Higher Education and Research (A. International Higher Education in Facts and Figures 2016 (International Unit, Universities UK, 2 June 2016). Adams & K.A.

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HEPI

JANUARY 31, 2024

HEPI Director Nick Hillman takes a look at the state of the debate on fees and funding as the next general election hoves into view, and introduces four upcoming events on the issue – in London , Belfast , Edinburgh and Cardiff. Moreover, higher education finance is a devolved matter. In many ways, that is an odd fact.

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