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Empowering tomorrow’s leaders: The case for including international students in university governance

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This guest blog has been kindly written by Dr Diana Beech, CEO of London Higher, the representative body for 50 London universities and higher education colleges, and Professor Nic Beech, Vice-Chancellor of Middlesex University London. You can view their report here.

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It’s a wrap! What did we learn about the best way to fund higher education from our UK tour – in London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff?

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HEPI Director Nick Hillman sums up the discussions heard during the last fortnight’s HEPI / London Economics / Nuffield Foundation events across the UK. Over the past two weeks, HEPI has hosted events in London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff in conjunction with the Nuffield Foundation and London Economics. It’s a wrap!

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Germany and Canada retain a special place in my heart, education overseas is a starting point

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One reason for that is that outward mobility is still, sadly, somewhat of a novelty here in the UK, so those going abroad for extended periods of study tend to be viewed with curiosity and fascination. This is the ‘soft power’ legacy of my international higher education. British students can be international students too.

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Croeso i Gymru: Is the Welsh student funding system the best in the UK – or is it far from perfect? Discuss

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There’s one certainty about higher education funding in Wales: whatever you say about it, someone will shoot you down in flames. Students from the richest households could even get a grant as well as the maximum maintenance loan. And there will be more heat than light.) But our euphoria didn’t last long.

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UK: “weakening consensus” on int’l students

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As he and multiple other big names in the higher education sector were announced as the first commissioners in the International Higher Education Commission , he talked about the difficulties international students are facing in terms of how they are viewed in the country.

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Memo to Universities UK: don’t let this crisis go to waste

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Our text is from Boris and Horace. Boris Johnson had Churchillian aspirations, and it was Churchill who supposedly first said in the 1940s: “never let a good crisis go to waste”, in the context of the formation of the United Nations. And it was Horace much longer ago who urged us to seize the day, and put little faith in the future.