HEPI

DECEMBER 10, 2023

This sort of thinking is vital for the future sustainability of the higher education sector. However, there are challenges for the sector in simply calling for more money, and the short-term prospects for any significant increase in funding seem remote. Data from 2020 shows we spend 2% of GDP on higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Society needs professionals trained to understand this modern landscape and how it impacts their lives and careers. Students pursuing careers in all sectors will benefit from data skills. Student credentialing comes in the form of co-authorship on peer-reviewed publications. We live in a world increasingly reliant upon data.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2023

A joint standing subcommittee on foreign affairs, defence, and trade commenced a public hearing between April 18-19 to hear evidence from universities, student accommodation, education agents, and professional bodies about sector recovery and future growth.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Yet, public discussion of universities is predominantly ungenerous, mostly critical and based on perceptions quite removed from the international reality. The cumulative effect of this is to move English universities assertively to a ‘marketised’, demand-led sector. By how much will a university’s costs have increased in that time?

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HEPI

AUGUST 29, 2023

They drive economic growth, develop cures to illnesses, help to solve society’s problems and in addition serve a public good, offering free museums, support for local schools and more. But at a sector level, even this activity is not enough to cover the gap left by underfunding. Can universities be more efficient?

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Last week, HEPI published a new Policy Note on the Robbins Report and this blog is in a series we are running to mark the 60th anniversary of the Report’s publication in October 1963 – you can access them all here. The proposals of the Robbins Report on Higher Education considered the role of providers of tertiary education.

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HEPI

AUGUST 25, 2023

As we navigate these ‘in-between times’, we can forget the extraordinary impact that higher education, as a sector, and HEPI, as a think tank, has had over the last 20 years (as Bahram Bekhradnia and Roger Brown recount). 2 During that time, UK universities have grown from graduating almost 600,000 people in 2003, to over 900,000 in 2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

The consequence: the richest institutions can fully fund the education of lower-income students, while the vast majority of working-class and lower-middle-class undergraduates must take out loans to pay for their education. The 35 most prestigious U.S. The 35 most prestigious U.S. Over time, as Howard R.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

I admire the disrupter culture that’s part of today’s technology sector. Systemic change comes with costs that are unequally borne across society. That’s cold comfort to students who still must pay heating bills, even in the mild climate of coastal California, where most of the UC’s campuses are.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 30, 2022

That said, I should add: Even though today’s public schools are more diverse than they were in 1954, they remain highly segregated along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. And, more controversially, apparent differences in familial perceptions about whether advanced education will pay off. So where does that leave me?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

By implementing comprehensive reforms across multiple systems, we can redefine the trajectory of our youth’s lives, pave the way for a more equitable society, and disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline. Equipping students with valuable skills for well-paying jobs in the tech sector empowers them to navigate towards a positive future.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Vice chancellors’ salaries soared into the stratosphere but more and more staff joined the precariat; industrial action became commonplace as job insecurity and low pay for many was aggravated by swingeing reductions in USS pension entitlements. Publishing worldwide was roiled by open access initiatives, especially the EU-inspired ‘Plan S’.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

In 2011, the Education Department issued a Dear Colleague letter (DCL) allowing institutions to pay a percentage of tuition revenue to providers of a bundle of services that included marketing and recruiting. Finally, every other sector of society has moved to a blended solution. Marketing for higher ed should be more honest.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

It seems in our collective DNA to have discourse and debate about everything, including the sector itself. Exception: Paranoid, power-hungry, full-length puffy coat–wearing presidents who only pay lip service to DEI by rebranding a room with outdated, tacky, worn-out furniture as a “safe space.” Black Friday.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” Mindzak said the rise of generative AI has created a paranoid frenzy in higher ed that the technology sector has been eager to pounce on. ” She added that it’s especially important to include students in the policy-making process, like one professor at Boston University did with his Data, Society and Ethics class.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Universities that heed this call will not only secure their own future but will also shape the future of education, society, and the world at large. They know students don’t want to pay anything for their education. It is often in the unease of change that the seeds of progress are sown. And we agreed that there definitely were.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Striking workers from participating unions held rallies in cities including Bristol, Brighton, Birmingham and London, as teachers, university staff, rail workers and civil servants stopped work to demand better pay. Continue reading.

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HESA

MAY 18, 2023

In addition to a large number of universities, it also has two other sectors, one of which resembles North American community colleges and the other, which resembles European Universities of Applied Sciences, or as we sometimes say in Canada, polytechnics. It’s not just a demand absorbing private sector system, right?

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HESA

MAY 18, 2023

In addition to a large number of universities, it also has two other sectors, one of which resembles North American community colleges and the other, which resembles European Universities of Applied Sciences, or as we sometimes say in Canada, polytechnics. It’s not just a demand absorbing private sector system, right?

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Union boss says workers are pursuing above-inflation pay rise after ‘real-terms cut since 2010’ Teachers in sixth-form colleges in England are the latest workers to be balloted over strike action in pursuit of an above-inflation pay rise. at the time of the original claim. at the time of the original claim. Continue reading.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Furthermore, research suggests CA-HE is elitist ( Annetts 2018 ; Starkey 2013 ), racist ( Orr 2021 ; Tan 2021a ), and failing neurodivergent students and staff by not paying enough attention to their mental wellbeing (who are over-represented in CA-HE at around 30% in the student population, in Bacon and Bennett 2013 ; RCA 2015 ).

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Inside Higher Ed : Will, you pay a lot of attention to the government role in higher education. The reason that students and families are paying for higher education is to ensure that they can have higher earnings as a start—their first if not their only goal for higher education.

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HEPI

JUNE 19, 2023

Yet big higher education reforms take a minimum of two years, so it will be hard for him to make significant changes to our own sector – should he want to do so – in that time. These new students are more likely to bring dependants with them because of the demographic structures of their own home societies.

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HEPI

MARCH 27, 2023

In June 2022, the Public Accounts Committee reported that the number of universities with budget deficits continued to rise – the figure for the 2021/22 financial year stood at 80. The scope of the sector standard was predicated on the acknowledged need to help young students transition between home and university.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Questions about higher education's production cost -- the cost of producing the education -- have persisted for a century, and new modes of generating revenue and wealth to pay that rising cost have ignited sharp criticism during the last four decades as student debt has swelled. Why then did student debt rise to about $1.6

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

JULY 30, 2021

Joel Bauman: I would add, a couple of institutions I was at were state, public institutions. There are nuances that a public, state-run institution trustee, or a board of directors, has that follow legislative mandates, that follow certain rules. Because that’s what they’re paying you for, to know your business.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The announcement comes at a time when the education sector is the single-most targeted industry for cyberattacks. One of the most prominent incidents was the ransomware attack by Vice Society against the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest school district in the country.

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Edu Alliance Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In the publication HR Drive titled “Employers are hiring, but 80% say they can’t find skilled candidates” More than 82% of employers said they’re actively hiring, despite predictions of an economic downturn, according to a survey of 150 HR leaders by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. Personal development courses (35%). based workers.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Faced with an overwhelming number of complex issues, the higher education sector must urgently develop and adopt innovative business models to transform itself into a more accessible, affordable, and future-proof system. Can we outgrow this? [00:46:18] 00:46:18] There are labor laws. There are ethical standards in business.

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SRHE

MARCH 14, 2023

Steven Greer, a Law Professor at Bristol, was attacked by student members of the University’s Islamic Society for allegedly making ‘Islamophobic, bigoted and divisive’ remarks in lectures. It is not our role to take sides in the contested debates that feature in the higher education sector. He received online threats.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

With UK academics in the midst of 18 days of industrial action over pay, pensions, workload, and casualisation, we wanted to create a space to hear, understand, and engage meaningfully with different points of view around the strikes. ” Alexander Douglas, University of St Andrews Read more “I’m very proud to be striking.

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HEPI

APRIL 1, 2024

The most recent census data show this to be 42%, too low for an economy that needs workers who can absorb, capitalise on and themselves drive the innovation needed by British businesses and public services if the UK is to stay one of the world’s advanced and sustainable economies, with its benefits spread across society.

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SRHE

JULY 11, 2022

Her letter of resignation was made public less than an hour before the news emerged that Boris Johnson had bowed to the inevitable and agreed to step down as leader of the Conservative Party – but to continue as Prime Minister, possibly until the Autumn party conference. These are all subject to the normal processes for public appointments.

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HEPI

JULY 28, 2023

Being a HEPI University Partner brings a number of advantages, including a termly Policy Briefing Paper summarising recent higher education policy issues, free places at our events – such as our Annual Conference – and early sight of all our publications among other benefits. After all, policies do not always have the desired effect.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 26, 2022

Image: Any research based on federally funded studies must be made freely available to the public without an embargo under a policy announced Thursday by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. There should be no delay or barrier between the American public and the returns on their investments in research.

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HESA

APRIL 6, 2023

At the level of individual faculty members, a mix of hyperinflation and government neglect of higher education funding mean that there has been an extraordinary drop in academic pay: in some cases, over 90%. But there was a strong effort to integrate and to include the social sectors that could not afford on their own to attend a university.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

On this, the OfS Insight Brief sets out an example of a student society inviting a speaker to an event. Having ‘due regard’ to the need to achieve the different elements of the Public Sector Equality Duty. Having ‘due regard’ to the need to achieve the different elements of the Public Sector Equality Duty.

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