HEPI

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Formed between 1969 and 1973, England’s polytechnics offered higher education courses in vocational areas. Created through mergers of colleges of technology, art, commerce and other specialist institutions, they offered full-time, sandwich and part-time courses. In 1979, funds for advanced further education were capped.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The arrival of the ‘alternative provider’ In 1997 the Dearing Report saw diversity in British higher education institutions as an advantage ‘especially in providing for student choice; in programme and pedagogic innovation’ and ‘in the ability of the sector as a whole to meet the wide range of expectations now relevant to higher education’.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

When the further education provider embraced first embraced esports in 2019 it was because “we saw an industry that was absolutely huge” “Over 90% of children and young people were playing games but actually this is an industry that included lots of different skills, professional skills, communication,” he continues.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The northeastern Australian technical and further education provider has been using a new insight reporting tool to develop localised adverts targeting students in Japan and South Korea. It can also reference pre-existing data on higher education campaign performance to further enhance results.

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HEPI

MARCH 5, 2023

It was also designed to test how Higher Education Providers (HEPs) would develop, market and deliver short courses as well as to enable the Student Loans Company (SLC) to develop its systems to deal with applications for loans to fund study on modules. Repayment terms are identical to higher education undergraduate student loans.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Demand for higher education is high, with more and more young people seeing the value of a university education, which is obviously great news for the sector. This is a particular challenge for newer institutions, such as further education colleges that deliver higher education.

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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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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 12, 2024

As key stakeholders in higher education, you understand the pivotal role that comprehensive student data management and strategic academic advising play in unlocking student success. Use technology for insights into student needs and preferences. Work closely with students to address academic challenges and career goals.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

If there is another 0.25% increase in the base rate, as is widely anticipated, this will place government and university finances under further pressure over the next few years with significant negative implications for HE students, the UK Government’s education budget in general and the further education college budget in particular.

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WCET Frontiers

APRIL 20, 2023

The higher education press continues to increase its coverage with multiple articles , blogs , and op-ed pieces in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Education among other outlets. But as higher education professionals, we need to be cognizant of how we leverage generative AI.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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. In the 1960s Britain was facing an increase in demand for higher education and these new institutions would help meet this demand.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. per cent of all employed graduates who lived in the UK before enrolling in higher education held technical jobs. . The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022. per cent).

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University Business

JANUARY 17, 2023

Review library and educational technology resources available to provide greater access to online materials for instructors to share with students. . Equip faculty with technology and tools to improve student engagement and learning. Provide or reimburse for additional educational technology and instructional design training.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Over the past two months, HEPI has been running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. The national TALENT Commission report is a vital resource which provides new strategic insights into the UK’s higher education technical community. Not any more!

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Efforts to widen higher education access have tended to focus on the provision of information and supportto those from under-represented backgrounds. The follow-up focused on two further subject areas. Higher Education Policy Institute Report 140, [link] , 17-23. by Neil Raven. Online] Available at: [link].

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Higher Education University Educational Policy Further Education 52

HEPI

OCTOBER 29, 2023

In this blog, we highlight the important role that Alternative Providers of Higher Education (‘Alternative Providers’ or ‘APs’) can play as partners to traditional universities. This is in the form of a validation or franchise agreement. The Alternative Provider (‘AP’) market is fragmented. There are currently c.340

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. The New England Commission of Higher Education] is getting more comfortable with pilots, for examples.”

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HEPI

JULY 24, 2023

Labour’s thinking about higher education is set in the context of “pathways to good prospects for all” In terms of sheer word count, further education, and technical and vocational pathways attract more text than anything on higher education, and that’s not a bad thing.

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QS (Quacquarelli Symonds)

AUGUST 8, 2022

This year, the Wharton-QS Reimagine Education awards , an annual competition to reward innovation in higher education, will play host to a new category of awards: Values. . Apply for a 2022 Wharton-QS Reimagine Education award X. But why do diversity initiatives in higher education matter? .

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HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

Creating a parity of esteem between Further Education and Higher Education, or between ‘vocational’ and ‘academic’, is often suggested as a good idea to improve skills shortages, achieve levelling up and promote economic growth.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

None of this would have been possible without the support of our University Partners and our corporate Partners, currently numbering 136 higher education institutions and 18 corporations. HEPI is proudly UK-wide in its approach and the pace of change has been rapid in recent years across England, Scotland and Wales.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This long-standing need will only grow in the near term as employers need staff to quickly learn new skills amidst advancements in artificial intelligence and other technology. Prospects are interested in continuing their education but are daunted by the idea of enrolling in a full master's degree.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

“Progress reviewers will need a sufficient general background in teaching and evaluating in higher education to be able to generally assess student progress toward stated learning outcomes, but they will not be expected to be subject experts in the student’s enrolled courses,” said the email, which has been circulated online.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. That has remained the case with UCU’s ‘Post-1992 National Contract’.

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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. Women accounted to just 6.7

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Disadvantaged Further Education Policy Higher Education 98

HEPI

APRIL 1, 2024

Tony Blair’s commitment that his Labour government would achieve 50 per cent participation in higher education was made in 1999, although the participation rate did not start rising substantially until the coalition government of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats ended England’s student number controls in 2013.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Overall, "The Student Loan Mess" provided a critical historical analysis of the factors contributing to the crisis and suggested pathways towards a more sustainable system of higher education financing. Debates on the role of government and private lenders in financing higher education continued. Next Chapters?

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