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Interest rate changes could challenge universities, student loans and post 16 and vocational education

SRHE

by Sir Adrian Webb The publication on 13 September 2023 of the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee report on the Office for Students drew attention to the financial challenges facing universities in the UK and to the challenges associated with regulating and overseeing these risks.

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Your Ideal Digitally Capable Higher Education Student: Reflections from a transition to Higher Education Workshop

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Nurun Nahar , Assistant Professor (Accounting with Business) at the University of Bolton. As higher education practitioners, it is crucial to draw a comparison between our expectations of an ideal digitally capable student and the reality of students’ digital capabilities.

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Edtech’s inclusive play: esports, preparing talent for the future of work

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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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Alternative Providers as Partners of Traditional Universities

HEPI

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. APs, via their ‘franchise’ model, can provide an attractive source of income without placing additional strain on university resources.

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. Saleema is one of more than 126,000 students, including nearly 17,000 refugees, studying at this tuition-free, nonprofit online university with an all-volunteer faculty.

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TAFE Qld trials AI tech in targeted advertising

The PIE News

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. Designed specifically for the education sector, the machine learning technology now references billions of impressions across the world.

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Institutional autonomy: does it need an ‘academic community’?

HEPI

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The Commons debated ‘Higher Education’ on 28 November 2012. This piece is the second part of two on the topic of institutional autonomy. It remains important.