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Performance-Based Funding in Europe

HESA

If you’re in North America, you know that one of the perennial debates in higher education finance is about the efficacy of performance-based funding, or PBF, with the bulk of the academic evidence suggesting in one way or another that such schemes do not achieve their purported aims. In a word – context matters.

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Europe “lagging behind” in innovation and start-ups

The PIE News

Europe’s competitiveness in innovation and the practical application of scientific research is “lagging behind” the rest of the world, ministers told a conference of European universities on April 23. The European Innovation Council , established in March 2021 under the EU’s Horizon Europe program, was granted €10.1 billion (£8.7

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Assessing individual research performance

HEPI

Salespeople can be assessed based on how much they sell, recruitment consultants can be assessed based on how many people they recruit, and manufacturers can be assessed on the basis of how many products they make. Using numbers is easy and volume and metrics provide numbers whereby performance can purportedly be measured and compared.

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It's (past) time to rethink the credit hour (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

They’re the fundamental backbone of today’s higher education system, and they’ve not changed in meaningful ways in more than a century. Learner needs and expectations for higher education, on the other hand, have changed dramatically over that time. Americans were still listening to music on their phonographs.

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The benefits and process of EQUIS Accreditation for European Higher Education

Creatrix Campus

It evaluates an institution's performance against international standards and benchmarks, including leadership, governance, student services, faculty qualifications, research output, internationalization, and corporate connections. What is EQUIS accreditation? What is EQUIS accreditation?

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Yemen: the globe’s forgotten higher education crisis?

The PIE News

Since the outbreak of war in 2014, IIE – an organisation which also set up financial aid support for citizens from the country studying in the US in 2016 – has seen applications to its Scholar Rescue Fund from Yemen soar. The statistics are harrowing. An estimated 377,000 deaths in the seven years to 2021. Two-thirds of a 34.2

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Irregulation: is the Office for Students fit for purpose?

SRHE

How successful has the OfS been in performing these duties, and have some duties been prioritised over others? Despite being part of a mass participation system, receiving significant taxpayer funding, too many do not accept the basic fact that they should be regulated.” The concerns are not limited to people within the sector.