More colleges are resetting tuition. Does the strategy work?
Higher Ed Dive
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Some institutions have seen short-term enrollment gains from slashing their sticker prices, but the strategy doesn’t guarantee a turnaround.
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DfE’s annual funding letter is out. Don’t spend it all at once
Wonkhe
APRIL 4, 2024
The government has delivered another big real terms cut to universities in England. Don’t spend it all at once appeared first on Wonkhe. Jim Dickinson can smell the stasis The post DfE’s annual funding letter is out.
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“Canada is open” despite study permit cap, say sector leaders
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Although the short-term adjustments to Canada’s policy changes may be painful, sector leaders remain positive for the long-term positioning of the country as a welcoming destination for students and immigrants. “There isn’t a true, collaborative approach. That’s what concerns me.
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Jamie Arrowsmith, Universities UK International
The PIE News
MAY 14, 2024
I think the conclusions that [it’s reached] are pretty clear and robust in terms of saying the Government should retain the Graduate Route. The challenge we have now is knowing that the MAC doesn’t make policy, the MAC provides advice. What do you think the government might do in response to these findings?
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Learn Always: The Power of Saying, “I Don’t Know”
MindMax
APRIL 24, 2024
When we asked for feedback on why they didn’t choose us in the first place, the answer was intriguing. In contrast, our proposal started by frankly admitting that we didn’t yet know the optimal plan—but that we’d figure it out together. First, we develop a hypothesis for why something is or isn’t going well.
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10% growth sees Wall Street back to 2019 levels
The PIE News
APRIL 4, 2024
“We didn’t face a cancellation issue… and within three weeks, we had all the 120,000 students on a digital classroom platform [we had already developed in 2018].” “What’s worked well for more than 50 years, we haven’t touched. So that’s the unique combination.
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How to build more flexible academic pathways for the changing college student
University Business
MARCH 19, 2024
Additionally, if a student enrolls in a boot camp at BU to acquire a specific skill and later considers pursuing a long-term credential, Butler+ offers a variety of ways to stack credentials toward a degree. Such a workforce landscape makes long-term academic commitments even less suitable for workers and employers today.
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Brian Bell defends MAC report on UK radio
The PIE News
MAY 14, 2024
He conceded that the economic benefit of the post-study period covered by the graduate route in terms of income generated was less substantial than the overall contribution of international students who pay high fees to study in the country as well as a health surcharge.
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Certificate earner rates hit 10-year high despite degree fall-off in 2022-23
University Business
APRIL 11, 2024
However, the news isn’t all doom and gloom. Short-term certificates have become a darling among young first-time credential earners. A breakdown in student demographics illustrates that their popularity isn’t tied to one gender or ethnicity. While male credential earning was down 2.4%
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HBCUs: Catalysts for Economic Empowerment and Community Growth
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 24, 2024
Dr. Levon T. Dr. Marybeth Gasman To truly comprehend the role HBCUs play in community and economic development, it is essential to understand the complementary nature of these terms. Dr. Levon T. billion to their local and regional economies.
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Despite hype, short-term certificates & skill-based hiring are underperforming
University Business
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Skills-based hiring and the short-term certificates touted to help students gain industry experience and professionalism have gained a lot of momentum at the start of the new decade. It wouldn’t be incorrect to assume that the value of a college degree has come under fire. Certificates led the way. News & World Report.
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What leaders should know about the new digital SAT
University Business
MARCH 8, 2024
“Students can’t work in any other program or application while the test is running and work can’t be posted into the exam app from another program or application.” “All their work will be saved and they won’t lose testing time,” says College Board.
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This tool can boost adult learners’ completion. What’s getting in its way?
University Business
MAY 7, 2024
. “This is true across higher education: The chances of persisting and completing a degree increase astronomically among people who come in with any type of credit compared to those who don’t bring in transfer credit,” she says. ” The average age of St.
North America: no ‘one size fits all’ approach to ELT
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
Sharing with the audience the recovery comparison across the markets, Mediratta said that its schools in Canada are sitting close to 80% of where they were in terms of student volume prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, Mediratta fully expects to see the return of the “short term student” in 2024.
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ELT missing out on housing amid host shortage
The PIE News
MARCH 13, 2023
. “We’re going to have to recruit [hosts], we’re going to have to prepay for more accommodation up front earlier and probably take it for longer term,” he said. If we want access to those rooms, those terms are now becoming the same.” “It’s not what language schools do, so it’s a risk.
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“Understand Indian expectations” to help foster better partnerships
The PIE News
DECEMBER 8, 2023
In terms of mobility, Arora noted the Turing Scheme, and how that could be doing much more for equitable mobility – for example, sending more British students to India. “I don’t think that there is a good enough understanding of contemporary India on the streets. Are we really prioritising student outcomes? “So
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A race against time: 2 ways to push students toward higher retention, completion rates
University Business
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Students’ retention and completion rates increased at the same rate as their average term credits. A part-time student taking nine to 11 credits per term had a 50% chance of completion, nearly double that of the student taking six to eight credits. The reason?
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Report: How Higher Education is Using Technology to Control Expenses and Accelerate Innovation
University Business
MARCH 7, 2024
Report: How Higher Education is Using Technology to Control Expenses and Accelerate Innovation As higher ed leaders consider their technology investments for the year ahead, they will need to balance the need to overcome immediate challenges with the imperative to strategize for their institutions’ long-term futures.
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Departing students add to UK emigration as dependants double
The PIE News
MAY 25, 2023
This figure includes short term study visas, unlike ONS data which looks at long-term migration (12 months or more). “It isn’t right that universities in some cases are in the immigration business rather than the teaching and education one,” he said.
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Visa delays in key UK market see students miss out on January starts
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
When a CAS is issued, universities usually allow two weeks after the beginning of the term for a student to arrive late – in some cases, they will extend it to three weeks. “In such instances where the student is waiting for the interview with the official and they didn’t show up, they have been called for a second interview.
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Canada: what is a provincial attestation letter?
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
With a lot of different new terms in the mix, The PIE explains some of Canada’s new rules. Provincial attestation letters International student applications submitted after January 22 must now include a provincial attestation letter with their study permit application.
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What defines an elite institution? These higher ed presidents don’t all agree
University Business
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Harris staunchly defended the label, likening the term’s utility to his experience studying race relations. “We talk past each other because we don’t know what we’re talking about.” While Harris wears the term like a badge, Colorado College President L. But Union College President David R.
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Are institutions leveraging their alumni to their full potential? Here’s how they can
University Business
DECEMBER 4, 2023
It shows applicants you’re interested in more than a seat in a lecture hall and that you care about their long-term success.” Rep, one alumna make for big-time hires Student recruitment Alumni can be utilized to help enlighten potential college applicants who aren’t well-versed in a specific institution’s offerings.
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How 2 college equity leaders advise navigating a changing climate amid backlash
University Business
JUNE 27, 2023
These decisions, some higher education stakeholders argue, will have both short- and long-term impacts on minority students and American communities at large. But as these trends develop long-term, restricting a diverse, educated workforce can have deadly consequences. “Don’t be led by fear,” advises Acosta.
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Limiting int’ls avoids “electoral backlash”
The PIE News
MAY 13, 2024
The implementation of a “soft” cap rather than Canada’s “hard” one has been welcomed by stakeholders, but they are warning the government not to forget the benefits of international students in Australia. “We’ve found in the past that when the pendulum swings against us in policy terms, it takes a while to come back.
Survey: What flexibility means to college students
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 7, 2023
The survey of 1,250 four- and two-year college students at 55 institutions, fielded in March, also found that one in four students thinks class participation shouldn’t count toward a final grade. And nearly a third of students think that class attendance shouldn’t be tracked or count in grading.
India: non-recruitment based engagement “key”
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
“If you get your reputation right and you get your relationships in market right, you don’t have to make an extra effort to recruit,” Kala Anand, vice president global of upGrad Connect , told The PIE. Don’t expect the student to come to you.”
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How 1 dynamic sector is due for big gains thanks to changes to the Carnegie Classification
University Business
DECEMBER 19, 2023
In its current rendition, the system categorizes institutions by the highest degree they confer, indirectly penalizing institutions that aren’t solely focused on academic rigor and prestige. “The data doesn’t really reward institutions for granting associate degrees to people who already have bachelor’s degrees.”
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Change is an opportunity. Amid deepening pressures, universities must seize it
University Business
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
If they don’t, the future falters. The reality is that we can’t be “everything, everywhere, all at once,” and we can’t pretend to be. To drive discussion, program analyses should follow a long-term vision rooted in where the institution strives for the most significant impact.
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IU Bloomington provost goes beyond retention for success
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 5, 2023
Shrivastav spoke with Inside Higher Ed about the long-term goals of higher education, a holistic approach toward student success and the markers of a successful student. My [first- to second-year] retention number is 90 percent, so I don’t spend my day every day thinking, “How do I fix it?” So that is a competency.
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Institutions and agents react to visa chaos in Australia
The PIE News
MARCH 13, 2024
Institutions speaking to The PIE warn of a business chaos and a fallout for brand Australia, given rejections which do not seem to make sense and some ongoing paralysis in terms of visa decisions. “School A won’t accept Thai women over 30, Colombians over the age of 25 studying on a package or Italians on General English only.
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Asia leading charge on AI ELT research
The PIE News
DECEMBER 14, 2023
In terms of literature, 19% of articles on AI in ELT have come from China, with 72% coming from Asia as a continent. It highlights the amount of investment that the Chinese are putting into it,” Adam Edmett, one of the report’s authors and the British Council’s head of edtech innovation told T he PIE News. It’s a massive swing.
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AIEC attendees have their say on challenges
The PIE News
OCTOBER 17, 2023
“[When] I started here, I felt like there was just no awareness of the benefits in terms of employability but I can see the difference just in six years’ time.” Erasmus is like 20 plus… I feel if it was like Erasmus, expanded to PG level and extended to longer term, I think that would help.”
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Optimism despite “rollercoaster” Horizon decision
The PIE News
JULY 20, 2023
“Don’t despair” – that was the message from Universities UK chief executive Vivienne Stern to the sector regarding the UK government’s further delayed Horizon Europe decision. They won’t get a lot of recognition from a lot of people for it. “It’s going to cost a lot of money.
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Suggested Alternative Names for ‘Noncredit’ Programs
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 12, 2022
” It’s a term that doesn’t mean much to most people who aren’t already in higher ed, and it defines programs by what they are not. I had mentioned that “certificate” wasn’t ideal, because it’s misleading. I have the same reaction to the term “career” programs.
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“End the uncertainty”: protect Graduate Route, sector urges
The PIE News
MAY 14, 2024
Despite protestations from Conservative parliamentary-undersecretary for primary care and public health Neil O’Brien – who called the report “rather a whitewash” with “narrow terms of reference” – Independent HE stressed accepting the recommendation would be a “fresh commitment” from the government.
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Three-year degree programs may be easier to implement than you think
University Business
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
.” Other universities in the “College in 3,” such as BYU Idaho and the American Public University System , have opted instead to create 90-credit bachelor’s programs, but Ericksen doesn’t compare apples to oranges. It simply can’t be completed in a 90-credit program, asserts Ericksen.
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From Past to Present: New Book Explores the Importance of HBCUs
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Marybeth Gasman and Levon T. Esters, a graduate of Florida A&M University and North Carolina A&T State University, powerfully shares fond memories of his experience as a student at these institutions. Esters have written an important and useful historiography of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
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Big appetite to build equitable partnerships at Going Global
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
There is a real sense of hunger for partnerships that are built into a “long-term” strategy, stakeholders said at a conference for leaders in higher education.
‘Nontraditional’ Students
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Language matters, and naming things in the negative only emphasizes what people AREN’T not who they ARE.” Part of my discomfort with the term “adult students,” usually applied to students over 25, is that it implies by contrast that younger students are not adults. ” She’s right, of course.
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Are early enrollment counts useful for community colleges?
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 15, 2022
“The assertion that we weren’t down this fall, we really are, we are down about 7 percent,” Browning told the news outlet. “Really it’s the end-of-term numbers that are the best indicator of overall college enrollments,” she said. percent increase.
Future of English: three things you need to know
The PIE News
JUNE 15, 2023
The British Council is currently in the middle of establishing a long-term research agenda into the future of the English language covering its global uses, needs, and demands, as well as the forces driving them. “The massive growth of the internet continues to show how important the English language is.
Australia’s visa slowdown: we want “sustainable growth” says MP
The PIE News
MARCH 1, 2024
“Sustainable growth at times doesn’t always mean ever more and more students,” Hill noted, in an exclusive interview with The PIE. But Hill’s comments indicate that the government is determined to rightside the sector in terms of managed, more carefully monitored, access. People are adjusting to that.
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Looking back at the UC graduate worker strike (opinion)
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 3, 2023
Nostalgia doesn’t help us live in the present, though. Elites and people in power don’t willingly give up privilege. The agreement reached on the Friday before Christmas Eve doesn’t address foundational problems in the neoliberal university. Change is hard. They’re right.
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