The PIE News

MARCH 15, 2024

International agents are frequently left with major cashflow shortfalls by university finance teams delaying payment and disregarding contracts, a group of agents has told The PIE. Furthermore, most institutions don’t pay agents until they receive students’ entire tuition, which can take up to two years to go through.

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The PIE News

APRIL 5, 2024

At The PIE Live Europe, international students revealed how much they were really spending on their education in the UK during a roundtable. Jiayu Liu, a master’s student in Philosophy at University College London, told delegates about the expenses that she had to be able to afford – having just calculated them in her head. “We

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University Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For students, it’s a missed opportunity for nutritious insight from experienced thought-leaders; for schools, it can feel like they just lit upwards of $100,000 on fire. Schools can better strategize for successful guest speaker events using this survey that asked 500 undergraduate students their preferences about college-hosted events.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The school is losing money. Over the past decade, it has lost about a fifth of its student body. Gregory Dell’Omo, Rider’s president, has been working hard to stabilize the university’s finances. Rider University, a landmark in central New Jersey for the past 158 years, has been grappling with most of them.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Stakeholders in Canada’s higher education sector have mixed feelings about the recent news that the IRCC will hike the amount needed for proof of funds for international students. Migrant Students United , which represents international students in Canada, said the move would “exclude prospecting working class students worldwide”.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Reconsidering student caps at public-private campuses and scrapping the charge colleges pay to enrol international students are among new recommendations to boost the finances of Ontario’s post-secondary institutions. Under these recommendations, universities would still be liable to pay the fee.

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University Business

APRIL 20, 2023

Higher education institutions are in a race to replace 20-year-old administrative systems to modernize the faculty and student online experience, yet new findings show that investments across student, finance and human capital management technology systems dipped harshly following a surge in 2022.

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SRHE

MARCH 1, 2024

by Fabio R Aricò, Laura Harvey and Ritchie Woodard The pattern is familiar across many universities: more and more students are asking to be excused from attending classes, submitting coursework, and even sitting examinations, because of work commitments. To what extent is student employment detrimental?

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HESA

APRIL 18, 2023

After three blog posts looking at historical data on financing (see here , here and here ), I thought I should do one final one which tries to tease out some lessons. From the late 1970s until the mid-1990s, when public funding fell, so too did total institutional income when measured in per-student or per-GDP terms.

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The PIE News

JULY 4, 2023

Most international students who come to Canada want to remain and eventually become permanent residents – but less than a third actually achieve this goal, a new study says. Jenny Francis, a geography faculty member at Langara College in Vancouver, has spent the last three years surveying students and studying the issue in British Columbia.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

To help students avoid developing bad spending habits that can lead to unpaid debts and other economic hardships, state legislators, colleges, and universities are working to advance financial literacy among young people. Many states have turned to legislation for help in the struggle to educate high school students about financial literacy.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Repairing it won’t be easy As the 31 January deadline for undergraduate degree applications approaches, universities as well as would‑be students have reason to be nervous. The university denies that this will make it easier for overseas students to get in than domestic ones. Money worries are not confined to former polytechnics.

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University Business

APRIL 25, 2023

Picture this: You’re a student at a flagship public university, and after class, you visit the career development office and complete a mock interview with a career advisor. Then, you pump some weight or take a light jog at the student recreation center for a well-needed sweat.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

Indeed, significant numbers of today’s college students no longer conform to the traditional notion of someone in their late teens or early 20s who matriculated to a four-year university straight out of high school. A third of today’s college students are 25 and older, and more than a third of undergraduates are part-time students.

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The PIE News

MARCH 31, 2024

International offices need to work more with their financial offices so that they can effectively manage student payments and agent commissions – and avoid any agent payment issues, a panel has urged. We have three categories – 30% of our institutions will pay us the moment students are enrolled.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

When you draw up a budget, fundamentally you are trying to work out how to make your money stretch as far into the term, or beyond, as possible. Or you might find you need extra finance and have to consider a term-time job or even an application to a hardship fund. Work out what money you have. Work out what money you have.

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University Business

APRIL 22, 2024

Nearly a quarter of today’s undergraduate students have seriously considered leaving school or were nearly dismissed, according to a new Sallie Mae study conducted by Ipsos. First-generation (41%), lower-income (33%) and minority Black and Hispanic (31%) students were the most likely to be considered at risk.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In July, Massey University Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa asked over 200 staff to consider voluntary redundancy as part of its plans to cut costs amid declining student enrolments and a reported $8.8m Surely it’s common sense that if you can’t make money in your home country then you explore other countries where you can.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2023

in line with government cap Rishi Sunak’s government has more than doubled the amount of money it makes from charging interest on student loans, official figures show, as graduates face borrowing costs of almost twice the rate set by the Bank of England.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Educators and doctoral students offered advice and shared career experiences Tuesday in an effort to guide aspiring graduate students seeking to become teachers and to promote resources that students could access along the way. Marcus Penny In a Jan. Marcus Penny In a Jan. The research is clear. We are needed."

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The PIE News

JUNE 14, 2023

In this series, we will be signposting some interesting investment groups to our readers and following the money to see who invests in who. Investment is driving innovation in digital marketplaces, application portals, student loans, payment platforms, outsourced admissions, pathway providers and online learning.

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The PIE News

MARCH 10, 2023

Companies offering students short-term loans to prove they have enough money to study abroad continue to operate in Nigeria, leaving agents concerned about students applying to universities without the funds to support themselves once they arrive in the country. These loans are then repaid once a visa decision has been made.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Just a few years ago, the number of students studying in the UK from Europe outstripped numbers from China as the number one international source market. They constituted about a third of all international students in the UK in 2020/21. Every student was qualified both financially and academically to study in the UK.

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The PIE News

MARCH 8, 2023

A new fintech company plans to provide up to $30 million in loans to help African students access higher education abroad. 8B Education Investments has collaborated with US-based Nelnet bank in a “first-of-its-kind” partnership to get more African students into North American institutions.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

Keir Starmer fails to grasp how squeezed the middle classes have become, says Derrick Joad , while Tim Exton worries about the impact on students from poor backgrounds and David Mayle argues that graduates pay their way in tax Polly Toynbee’s article fails to convince this reader ( Keir Starmer is right to U-turn on tuition fees.

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University Business

JANUARY 4, 2024

Complete College America, the nonprofit dedicated to improving equitable student outcomes, has long championed its model its outcomes-based funding model to help bolster graduation rates. Schools that serve minority student populations, like HBCUs , are disproportionately hurt since they are often the most cash-strapped institutions.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 29, 2024

A UK newspaper has come under fire after releasing an investigation into universities allegedly allowing international students into their institutions “despite having lower grades than domestic students”. International Foundation Years are designed to prepare students to apply for full degree programs.

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University Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Schools today vying to win applicants over must toe the line between investing in top-notch student support programs and keeping their degrees affordable all while sustaining long-term economic health. The foundation of its commitment is to provide a modern, robust catalog of student success advisers and alumni engagement opportunities.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Plus letters from Michael Anderson and Chris Hughes While the U-turn on rejoining the EU’s Horizon scheme is welcome, spare a thought for the Erasmus Plus scheme, less well-financed but much more influential among young people ( EU diplomats hope Horizon deal could be first of many with UK, 7 September ). So that’s another Brexit bonus?

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University Business

JULY 28, 2023

He believes community colleges should be considered “elite” for housing under-resourced students. It takes 10 years to instill effective, intentional changes to an institution’s student body makeup, said Josh Garcia, superintendent of Tacoma Public Schools. “They’re at my college.”

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The PIE News

JULY 24, 2023

Bangladeshi students wanting to study in major destinations are having issues paying their tuition fees due to dwindling forex reserves, The PIE has learned. The country has suffered heavily with its finances in recent months, with the forex exchange reserves reportedly falling to a seven-year low of $29.85bn in May.

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University Business

APRIL 20, 2023

If we’ve learned anything by year three of surveying higher ed students on their financial and technology habits, it’s that calling today’s students the mobile generation is accurate. Similarly, usage of smartphone apps to make payments also remains high at 72 percent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

While some individual campuses have emerged as success stories around college completion, growth in the nation’s college completion rate has stalled at 62.2%, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Four- and eight-week courses and shorter terms can accelerate student learning.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer Many in higher education talk frequently of how flaws in transfer and credit mobility cost students time and money, but how that plays out is not well articulated. Transition point: Students seek to efficiently submit evidence of the quality of their previous work and learning experiences (e.g.,

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In her reply to Stanford, she said she did not feel comfortable celebrating the school’s launch because of its willingness to accept money from fossil fuel companies, whose negative influence on climate research has been a subject of her academic work for over a decade. Students and Scholars Push Back.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The higher education finance specialist Flywire has entered into a partnership with the State Bank of India, in a deal it says will streamline student payments. The Flywire system will be installed into SBI’s own banking platform, and will allow students to fully pay digitally for anything from application fees to tuition payments.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The CAN$2 billion Indian students are expected to pay into the Ontario college sector in the 2023/23 academic year is more than the provincial government contribution, figures suggest. Between 2016/17 and 2019/20, international student numbers in the system have roughly doubled.

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