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Cultivating global learner ownership from high school to higher education

The PIE News

. “Our students continue to excel and are prepared to experience all the world has to offer” With such global influence, experiential learning and opportunities are critical to the success of our student body and necessary for the international competitiveness of higher education.

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Experts Discuss Equity Practices in Higher Ed Recruitment and Admissions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Along that same line, experts spent the webinar discussing strategies and recent briefs on equitable admissions in higher ed, specifically on topics such as recruitment, legacy admissions, early action practices, test-optional and test-free policies, and holistic review of student applications.

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US seeks to connect entry points to boost recruitment

The PIE News

The other is “facilitating the connections between these entry points” AIRC president Derrick Alex said the recommendations encourage US institutions to “value and promote the enormous breadth of educational options” offer in the country.

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Labour’s education policy is brave, but can they fund it?

HEPI

They are strong on critique: on the way the Conservatives’ focus on a “knowledge-rich” curriculum has had a narrowing effect, the challenges of recruiting and retaining a strong teacher workforce and on the relationship between poor mental health and barriers to learning. All these are serious issues. appeared first on HEPI.

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Pathways add around £830m to UK economy – NCUK report

The PIE News

Pathway programs help broaden access for students, but the are also “essential to standardising international education, providing international students with a well-rounded foundation for success in future academic studies”, the report states.

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New Higher Education Institutions in England: A real chance to innovate?

SRHE

by Katherine Emms The 2017 Higher Education and Research Act (HERA) enabled new and innovative HE providers to enter and establish themselves, with the aim of diversifying the HE sector. For their staff body, new HEIs wanted to ensure that they recruited not just pure academics but also those with a background in industry.

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“Opportunity” in Francophone Africa for UK unis

The PIE News

African countries with French as an official language are presenting a heightened opportunity for British university recruitment, experts have claimed. We’ve done a lot of work with the international schools in the region, and where we’ve seen the most success is recruiting direct students from some of the partner schools,” Hasting said.