The PIE News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“I do think though that the sector has got to continue to work on some aspects of international student recruitment on the quality side to assure that it retains political support for this aspect of the model,” he added. “They bring skills and experience that we simply cannot grow in the local labour market. .

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 5, 2023

Warning comes after party ditched its promise to abolish university tuition fees in England UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer has been warned that he has “no easy options” over student loans and higher education financing, after the Labour leader’s decision to scrap an earlier policy of abolishing tuition fees in England.

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HEPI

JANUARY 24, 2024

It is an argument I have heard many times throughout the two decades that I have worked in higher education policy and politics. Research by the Department for Education (DfE) shows that skills and labour have been the only factor driving making a persistent and positive contribution to productivity in the last few years.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Any consensus that includes the representative body for university leaders and the representative body for students as well as the politicians in charge (from more than one political party) needs rigorous testing, even if only to ensure the right questions have been asked in advance about whatever policy is being implemented.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Based on findings from the project ‘Learning from Labour: Critical Pedagogy for Working Students’ carried out at Middlesex University in 2022-2023, the study explores the educational and employment challenges faced by working students in UK post-92 universities ( MDX News, 2023 ).

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The PIE News

JULY 27, 2023

Honeywood, however, made the “pragmatic” justification that Australia’s labour shortages could be helped by international students – at least, temporarily. “As agencies representing Australia, it becomes very hard for us to justify this messaging.”

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HEPI

JULY 24, 2023

Keir Starmer has committed Labour to five ambitious missions, of which the fifth is squarely focused on educational transformation. The mission is stated simply and squarely: ‘Labour will shatter the glass ceiling in Britain’. Labour’s mission is bold. They should think about the next frontier.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Emotional labour has several meanings, and inevitably some are context dependent. I also characterise emotional labour as the often-unacknowledged burden borne disproportionately by people of colour in the workplace. Emotional labour creates additional barriers that academics of colour have to break through in order to succeed.

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The PIE News

JULY 10, 2023

The Control Yuan, which acts as a government ombudsman, issued a statement in June criticising the ministries of education, labour and foreign affairs for failing to protect international students from exploitation.

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totallyrewired

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It is based on the seventh AI Conversation session that took place today where Dave White answered questions around the topic, Has AI Stolen Our Creative Labour? This was the focus of a thought-provoking discussion titled “AI Conversations: Has AI Stolen Creative Labour?” The following post is entirely generated using AI.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The “stay rate” of international graduates has been a focus point of political conversations in recent years. “As But we do, however, want to prepare our international students for the Dutch labour market as well as possible.” De Man said, “A lack of social or professional support can be devastating when entering the labour market.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Also speaking this week was Labour’s shadow minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Catherine West, who urged more youth from India and the UK to engage in international exchange of education and culture. A member of the National People’s Party he comes from a political lineage.

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HEPI

MARCH 8, 2024

This variety was not entirely surprising, given the growing divergence in funding and regulatory policies across the four parts of the UK and when each part of the UK has different political parties in charge. But it fully justified our (costly) decision to go on tour in person.

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HESA

MAY 24, 2023

We were given a list of six questions – pointedly, they came from the Ministry of Colleges and Universities and not the Panel (the politics behind that must be pretty interesting). Second is the idea that institutions currently aren’t labour market relevant and aligning with employer and local community needs.

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HEPI

MAY 29, 2023

The Labour Market No Government wants to be seen to be denying opportunity, but increasingly the State, of either political bent, wants to shape and re-define aspiration, hence the surfeit of media stories and Ministerial proposals around (degree) apprenticeships, modularity, lifelong learning and lifelong loans.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

The benefits of welcoming international students across Canada is being lost amid negative headlines and political pressure, stakeholders across the country fear. CBIE has highlighted that the sector is worth more than the auto parts, lumber and aerospace sectors combined, and it creates over 170,000 jobs.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Under the proposals, active recruitment at international fairs is no longer allowed except for sectors with significant labour market shortages. If politics is going to determine that, the autonomy of universities will be firmly interfered with,” said Puylaert.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 30, 2023

Also possibly affecting numbers is the precarious position of Finnish politics. The prediction made by the service was that the backlog would be cleared by “the end of the year”. A proposal has already been put forward to raise tuition fees for non-EU students by the coalition.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 26, 2024

“I see this as a political decision rather than a structured one for the economy,” he said, but he added, “In some sense it’s a great step towards solving Canada’s ‘diploma mills’ problem, it will shut down bad institutions and also de-incentivise agents who engage in shoddy practices – I welcome that part.”

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

It has become a reality in the Netherlands that the Party for Freedom (PVV), a right-wing populist political party, has become the biggest winner in the Dutch national elections. The political debates around internationalisation have also resulted in international students and staff feeling less welcomed at universities in the Netherlands.

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The PIE News

JUNE 13, 2023

After months of debate and opposition from many universities in the country, the Labour Party-run government will introduce fees for non-EU students. When it really mattered, neither the Socialist Left Party , the Labour Party nor the Center Party was willing to stand up for free higher education,” she continued.

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The PIE News

APRIL 15, 2024

A rapidly shrinking youth population naturally results in falling numbers of domestic university applicants and fewer graduates entering Japan’s labour force. Attracting foreign investment and creating an international labour market are part of the country’s economic plan.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Victor is a native of Cape Breton and a double graduate of Cape Breton University, having received a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) and an MBA (Community Economic Development).

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Facilities Arts And Sciences Recruitment Students 93

The PIE News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Speaking at an emotional dinner at the event, which also marked the 10-year anniversary of The PIE, Sharif Safi, a Chevening scholar from Afghanistan, spoke powerfully to urge guests to “be kind” to both Ukrainian and Russian students, calling on the sector to “separate politics from education”. ‘I

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SRHE

MARCH 1, 2024

However, there are also positive returns to student part-time work: developing key skills which are valuable for learning, as well as in the graduate labour market, such as problem solving, teamwork, communicating with customers and managing different priorities.

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HEPI

APRIL 27, 2023

The second book I read is the controversial new one by the Kent University Professor, Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics. It has hit a raw nerve in the UK in the four weeks since it was published and it is even more relevant to the theme of wokeness. I enjoyed reading the argument.

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The PIE News

MARCH 27, 2024

As was the case in many discussions throughout the two-day event, conversations turned to how policy and politics can have an impact of a country’s reputation as a welcoming place for students. “If we can activate our Dutch students going abroad as much as we can receive the international students, then we have a perfect balance.”

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

I have visited many times before of course, perhaps most notably for a debate hosted by some of your students in which I defended the current tuition fee system against the (then) Labour politician Chris Williamson. But I hope you feel I have covered a range of funding, regulatory and political concerns facing us.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 16, 2023

What’s the connection with the labour market? That’s politics,” he added. Speaking to The PIE, Jorrit Snijder, Breda University of Applied Sciences ’ President, points out that the debate that’s been going on since the housing crisis has left behind some key context. “The The debate [we’re having] is a very Dutch debate. “We

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HEPI

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Meanwhile, the Labour Party pivoted away from its pledge of “free” tuition fees, proposing instead a “fairer” solution – the details of which are as yet unspecified. A palatable solution for all, that can work within the current fiscal and political realities, must be found. We should learn from them.

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GlobalHigherEd

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Beauchesne of indexable co-authorship between 2005-2009: What political boundaries, if any, do you notice in this empirically-based visualization of collaborative activity? Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global Scientific collaboration in the 21st century. Pause for a moment, too, and explore this fascinating visualization by Olivier H.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

I hope a good example of how we’ve tried to maintain our independence at HEPI since that time is the sort of documents that we publish: we are unlike the bigger and more political think tanks based in London, which tend to push one part of the political spectrum, as we publish reports from across the board.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This would enable providers to design bespoke modules in collaboration with employers that directly address skills gaps, are tailored to the local skills and labour landscape and can adapt to emergent needs. A greater employer focus works well in similar initiatives in other countries.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 23, 2023

He is also a former special and political advisor and a former civil servant. Second, the institutions must be large, so as to cover a wide range of subjects with an appropriate division of labour within each… Third, there must be a strong emphasis on postgraduate studies: postgraduate students ought to form about half the student body.

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Policy Institution Technology Higher Education 52

HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

A time in which the new Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, could call on the country to prepare for a future that would be formed through the white heat of a technological revolution (Byrne, 2016). Changing geo-politics have raised questions about the risks associated with international student recruitment (Adams et al, 2023).

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Humanities Higher Education History Policy 98

HEPI

AUGUST 25, 2023

More recently, and perhaps spurred by macro-political concerns around levelling up, we have seen many universities (re)discover their commitment to their locality, embracing the idea of being anchor institutions through civic and community engagement.

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HESA

APRIL 3, 2023

One of the things that makes PEI adorable is how tiny all its politics are. Remarkably, all political parties see UPEI and Holland College as partners: as key institutions which can help the province achieve its goals. Not sure what the back-story politics to this is, but it’s interesting.)

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