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Unpopular opinion: a sense of relief over UK dependants ban?

The PIE News

But what policy makers and private sector disruptors often misunderstand is the politics within an institution. The best minds in international education work with passion to solve a global social problem – how to educate our young people and prepare them for a rapidly changing future.

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Tory immigration policies risk over-reliance on Chinese students, ex-universities minister warns

The Guardian - Higher Education

Exclusive: Chris Skidmore says restrictions on international students risk a funding crisis Analysis: from boom to bust on international students The Conservative party’s “scorched earth” immigration policies risk UK universities becoming increasingly reliant on students from China to avoid financial crisis, a former universities minister has said.

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UK: “weakening consensus” on int’l students

The PIE News

The basic policy architecture is still in place, but I think political support for it is weaker than it was two or three years ago – and I do think we need to acknowledge that and to understand why it’s become weaker,” he told attendees of the IHEC launch event.

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Higher education as a politicians’ playground

SRHE

Since he left in 2014 the political game-playing has sadly degenerated, becoming ever more disconnected from the real issues facing the HE sector. It is the eleventh such appointment, since both Jo Johnson and Chris Skidmore served twice, and only four of the 11 appointments lasted for more than a year.

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New Florida bill aims to enact DeSantis's higher ed reforms

Inside Higher Ed

Chris Rufo, an anti-DEI activist whom DeSantis appointed a trustee in a conservative takeover of the New College of Florida, cheered the move on Twitter last week. DeSantis is channeling the sentiment of the voters, who have demanded that taxpayer dollars stop subsidizing left-wing racialist ideology and partisan political activism.

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Pressure mounts: who will stand up for the sector?

The PIE News

“The overuse of the word ‘foreign’ in headlines is a constant annoyance” University of Manchester Political Science professor Robert Ford said of The Sunday Times’s pathway investigation that those reporting “don’t understand university finances at all” That is most likely very true.