The PIE News

MAY 23, 2023

That’s how we grow knowledge, broaden understanding, and transform lives to better serve society. It’s the very core of our mission and purpose in higher education – to bring people from different backgrounds, race and religion; beliefs, values and nationalities; together, to exchange views freely in open, respectful debate.

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HEPI

JANUARY 25, 2024

Opportunities for lifelong learning are an essential part of a happy, productive and educated society. This HEPI blog was authored by Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI.

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HEPI

MARCH 26, 2023

I welcome this focus on science and innovation, and Eric Schmidt at the launch of the I-X initiative at Imperial’s White City Campus also emphasised the critical impact of such investment on society globally. To move from ideas to impact, benefitting society. Yet the UK has a problem in innovation, decades in the making.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Maddy Lawrence waited more than five hours in agony on pitch for ambulance and then developed sepsis in hospital in Bristol There were “gross” failings in the care of a student who died after after suffering a dislocated hip in a rugby accident and developing sepsis in hospital, a coroner has said.

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HEPI

APRIL 23, 2023

Our universities contribute huge amounts to society, not just financially, and they value the support from the private sector. As an example, our much-loved, but dangerously under-resourced NHS is becoming increasingly unable to manage the effects of the much-publicised mental health crisis faced by of our young people.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If I wanted to be a nurse, doctor, dentist or other health professional, I would be able to have a loan or bursary In the past, you have written about how trainee paramedics who have a previous degree are barred from student loans and the NHS bursary, unlike almost all other healthcare students. TG, Sheffield Continue reading.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Plan expected to be published next month could propose increasing places from 7,500 to 15,000 Britain could double the number of doctors and nurses it trains under NHS plans to tackle a deepening staffing crisis, according to reports.

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HEPI

APRIL 5, 2023

I might want a slightly bigger Easter egg but if it comes at the cost of someone else not having an Easter egg at all, I’m not sure society should indulge me: it might be (mildly) in my interests but it’s not in yours and it’s not in the country’s interests either.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“We know that they go home at the end of the period of study” Masters and PhD students bringing dependants must be able to demonstrate that they can support their family, and are subject to an NHS surcharge, she reminded. “Also we know that they go home at the end of the period of study,” she said.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The cost-of-living crisis, the crisis in the NHS, the mental health crisis, the housing crisis, the climate crisis. Our vision is of a future where we as a society can thrive, not just survive. In 1937, 11 years before the invention of the NHS, students worked together to secure free healthcare on campus for each other.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2023

The centre at Worcester University could be forced to train only overseas students, who are unlikely to remain in Britain A new school set up to boost the number of doctors in England has been told it will not receive any funding for domestic students – meaning that in future it may only be able to give places to those coming in from overseas.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

It protects qualifying individuals from being treated unfairly, and promotes a just and more equal society. Society expects accountability. Health and Safety regulations are of limited value, being less stringent for students, who are not employees. The Equality Act is discrimination law. It does not protect students more widely.

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HEPI

APRIL 1, 2024

Like the NHS, this system needs to be there when needed, with no upfront costs preventing access, and with the recognition that a universal system needs to be efficient, focused on need and meeting the highest priorities first. This will need some tough discussions with the sector, professional bodies and learned societies.

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HEPI

JULY 28, 2023

First announced in 2020, we were told by Ministers in 2021 that this would bring ‘revolutionary change into further and higher education’ and even that it was akin to ‘ the revolutionary ideas that shaped the founding of our NHS ’.

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