The PIE News

MAY 15, 2023

A landmark report by various stakeholders in the UK has revealed that international students boosted the country’s economy by £41.9bn in the academic year 2021/22. The document comes as more speculation mounts over possible limits on dependants being discussed by the UK government before migration figures are released in late May.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The rankings place the University of California, Berkeley, at No 1, followed by two Canadian institutions, the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia, with Edinburgh University the top-performing UK institution in fourth place as a result of its strong sustainability research. Continue reading.

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HEPI

JANUARY 31, 2024

HEPI Director Nick Hillman takes a look at the state of the debate on fees and funding as the next general election hoves into view, and introduces four upcoming events on the issue – in London , Belfast , Edinburgh and Cardiff. So all three major UK-wide parties have backed fees while in office at Westminster.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The UK higher education sector’s commitment to the UK Agent Quality Framework and the National Code of Ethical Practice has been demonstrated at the BUILA winter conference. Shane Collins, director of student recruitment and admissions at the University of Edinburgh echoed the importance of showing strength and unity in the sector. “In

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The PIE News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Chinese, Indian and Nigerian students continued to drive the international student population of the UK in the 2021/22 academic year, with the country hosting a total of 679,970 non-UK students. A total of 46,350 non-UK PGR students enrolled in 2021/22. Photo: HESA Overall UK universities enrolled 2,862,620 students in 2021/22.

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The PIE News

APRIL 28, 2023

The amount of tuition UK universities made from non-EU students reached close to £9 billion in the 2021/22 academic year, a 90% increase on 2016/17 figures. UK institutions hosted 312,795 non-EU students in 2016/17, who paid a total of £4.6bn. from UK and £7m from EU students. Durham University made £126.9m from non-EU, £126.5m

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The PIE News

AUGUST 8, 2023

Hundreds of international students’ plans to start UK university courses this autumn have been derailed after testing organisation Pearson revoked some of its online English language exam results following cheating suspicions. The post UK universities withdraw offers after Pearson cheating concerns appeared first on The PIE News.

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The PIE News

MARCH 30, 2023

International education company Shorelight has entered the UK with a partnership with Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. The partnership with Heriot-Watt University is Shorelight’s only one in the UK. The post Shorelight signs first UK partner with Heriot-Watt appeared first on The PIE News.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The provider, owned by private equity investor THI Investments , recently partnered with the universities of Kent and Edinburgh Napier in the UK, in addition to expansions in Australia , the US (with Mercy College & San Francisco State University ), Canada and in pre-sessional programs in China.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 18, 2024

In the last six months, OIEG has revealed partnerships with the University of Kent and Edinburgh Napier University in the UK. Bremermann-Richard has previously warned that UK government rhetoric and policy could be detrimental for the country.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Also performing well is the UK, taking up another quarter of the top 20 – with the University of Edinburgh claiming the highest spot of them at fourth. . These rankings reflect the efforts of our staff and students in making the University of Edinburgh more environmentally and socially responsible.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 5, 2023

University of California Berkeley took the top spot, in a Top 10 comprised of institutions from Canada, Australia, the UK, the US, Japan and New Zealand. Joining the University of Edinburgh in the UK’s top 10 representation is Imperial College London. UK institutions have a total staff and student headcount of approximately 2.3

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The PIE News

JULY 4, 2023

Gavin McLachlan, vice principal and chief information officer at the University of Edinburgh, said that universities have a “responsibility” to ensure students are AI-literate. “It The post UK universities set out plans to use AI in teaching appeared first on The PIE News.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

And it’s a strategy that is much needed, especially since the higher education sector in Scotland has such a unique offer from the rest of the UK, she added. “It’s about acknowledging the benefits of the students to our own UK community.”

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

There’s nothing in principle wrong with the three-year fellowship,” Wynnyckyj conceded at the Going Global conference in Edinburgh in late November. “We are witnessing our top researchers being offered three-year fellowships to continue their research work.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Simon Marginson, professor of higher education at the University of Oxford, told delegates at the Going Global 2023 conference in Edinburgh that there is a sort of self-superiority that has resulted from years of colonisation that can risk trickling down into TNE. TNE’s time is now,” he told delegates.

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The PIE News

APRIL 13, 2023

Widely used by UK institutions, Sinorbis recently held a breakfast briefing with partners during The PIE Live Europe conference to inform them of an expansion of the platform to cover all Asian countries, social media and languages due for roll out in summer 2023.

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SRHE

JANUARY 24, 2024

This involved running a number of very successful research days in London, and an eventful one held in 2014 in Edinburgh, which saved Scottish colleagues some journey time. This SRHE event at Edinburgh was the starting point for the mentoring relationship and follow-up conversations at subsequent SRHE Conferences.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The UK Department for Education is offering more than 1,400 potential learners the chance to enrol in a government-funded online coding bootcamp, through its partnership with HyperionDev. ” The post Partners offer UK-funded coding bootcamp appeared first on The PIE News.

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The PIE News

JULY 20, 2023

The 2024 iteration of QS Best Student Cities Rankings sees the UK capital city hold the top spot for the fifth consecutive while Tokyo in Japan has returned to second place for the first time since 2019. London has retained the title of best student city in the world in the ranking compiled by higher education analyst Quacquarelli Symonds.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

No hard evidence for this historical legacy was provided, but I didn’t question it and it striked me as an interesting argument for letting different parts of the UK do their own thing when it comes to higher education and student funding. Perhaps the Welsh funding system is the best one in the UK, or perhaps it’s far from perfect.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Dr. Janja Komljenovic is a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University in the UK. His research interests include the relationships between education, data-driven technologies, and wider society, and he has led projects funded by the ESRC and the British Council in the UK.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 1, 2023

K12 education group Globeducate has made acquisitions in recent months in the UK and Spain as it seeks to expand its global learning offer to more students. The day and boarding school near Fareham on England’s South Coast enrols some 450 students, and is the provider’s third school in the UK.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

.” These fraudulent publishers often bribe academic journal editors to accept the work for up to $20,000 or more, Science reports, and at least “tens of millions of dollars” flow to the paper mill industry each year, said Matt Hodgkinson of the independent charity UK Research Integrity Office.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Seven scholars from South East Asia have been chosen as recipients of the British Council’s scholarships for women in STEM for 2022/23, as the organisation continues efforts to enhance South East Asia-UK relations. A further two students from Laos and Cambodia have been chosen to study at Edinburgh Napier University.

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HEPI

JULY 25, 2023

Videos recently emerged of disruption to graduation ceremonies at the University of Edinburgh. Graduands at Edinburgh did not receive their results because of a refusal to mark “summative” work by lecturers and teachers, under a UCU strike mandate dating from 20 April. This blog was authored by Josh Freeman, Policy Manager at HEPI.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

EDI director at the University of Edinburgh Omolabake Fakunle showed delegates some results from a study on expectations of non-EU students in the UK for getting visas to work post graduation. I’m going to get it’ “Yes, you can be the best – and that’s the slogan in the UK; attract the brightest and the best.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

“With this new partnership, HyperionDev advances in its mission to close the tech skills gap in the UK and fill the high demand for tech roles globally,” Moola said. ” The KCL Career Accelerator program is the second time FourthRev has partnered with the London institution.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

focus primarily on activity during the 2020-21 academic year, containing stories of how institutions in the UK and Ireland successfully picked themselves up and moved ahead following the pandemonium of the pandemic. . Campus Live UK?&?IE leadership and management. . Let’s take a look at the ones to watch this year! .

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Janja Komljenovic is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Higher Education Research and Evaluation at Lancaster University in the UK. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University, UK. Janja’s research focuses on the political economy of knowledge production and higher education markets.

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The PIE News

MARCH 16, 2023

From investment banking, to owning an executive search company; from leading Edinburgh Business School to becoming a dame , Heather McGregor really has done it all. Her involvement with Heriot-Watt did not start in Edinburgh Business School. She quips that she’s always labelled Heriot-Watt as the MIT of Edinburgh.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. A Concordat and Agreements Review (April 2023) formed a joint attempt to define ‘research culture’ initiated by Universities UK, UKRI and Wellcome.

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HEPI

AUGUST 29, 2023

Between 2020 and 2030, the UK population will expand by 27 per cent. However, these rising numbers are not being reflected in the volume of applicants: in 2022/23, there was no increase in home students and UK student intake is lower now than it was in 2020. a) In 2020, the long demographic decline in 18-year olds ended.

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HEPI

JANUARY 8, 2024

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which replaced the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in 2015, is primarily responsible for regulating Universities’ terms and conditions, aided by other bodies such as the Office for Students (OfS) and Universities UK (UUK).

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

But now in 2023, Italy felt the need (briefly) to ban ChatGPT (due to data protection fears) and some universities, including here in the UK, have tried to bar their students from using it. The key is not to try and steer around it, but to take advantage of it.

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The PIE News

APRIL 25, 2023

Mutual recognition of qualification agreements with countries like the UK and Australia, as well as AIU’s MoUs with organisations such as UUK, Universities Australia, in Mexico and its portal designed to help institutions find partners in India, will support the internationalisation agenda. Slowly, we are making it easier,” Mittal said.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Here, in contrast, leaders from a range of backgrounds reflect upon how many independent schools sit in diverse cities and recruit diverse (often rich, but ethnically diverse) pupils from the UK and abroad, as well as on how much more there still is to do – for example in recruiting more diverse headteachers – to deliver a more rounded education.

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