The PIE News

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Newspapers in the UK have splashed headlines about “banning” foreign students from universities and a “crackdown” on study visas, after statistics showed the country hit its highest-ever figure for net migration in the year to June.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 24, 2023

Close to 500,000 sponsored UK study visas were granted to main applicants in the year to June 2023, equivalent to a rise of 23% on the previous year, with Indians accounting for almost a third. From January 2024, masters students on taught courses in the UK will no longer be permitted to bring dependants with them.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Roger Watson, President, National Conference of University Professors. Since the 1980s, the number of UK university professors has grown five times from 4,500 to 22,855. But what is the promotion profile of the current UK professoriate and what do those promoted to the professoriate do?

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The PIE News

MAY 1, 2023

A significantly higher proportion of EU-born international students are employed in the UK compared to non-EU-born students, according to data recently released by the Office for National Statistics. The ONS said that some of this will be explained by EU citizens historically having a right to work in the UK.

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The PIE News

MAY 3, 2024

Once the UK HE sector has ‘toughed it out’ through the MAC review announcement and net migration figures, it can start looking more concretely at the future, stakeholders said. Not only were there humanitarian crises… but we were filling our labour market with non-EU nationals.

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The PIE News

JUNE 21, 2023

The cost of living and price of tuition fees are tainting the value and experience of studying in the UK for international students, research has suggested. The research showed a small upturn in value perceptions across all parts of the UK, with the exception of students domiciled in Wales.

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The PIE News

MAY 30, 2023

University leaders were warned about the potential impact on the UK economy of government changes to dependent visas during the recent QS higher education festival in London. We’ve formulated a number of different scenarios, with the worst case being [the changes] could cost the UK up to £10 billion.”

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The PIE News

MAY 24, 2023

Agents are also on high alert after the news broke on May 23, in what appears to be preparation for the release of record-breaking migration figures from the Office for National Statistics on May 25. Especially with education empowering more women, it’s not fair for any country to deny them from bringing children and spouse.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Stakeholders in the UK sector are reporting increasing numbers of international students dropping out soon after enrolment in order to accept employment offers in the care sector. New vacancies for care workers and health professionals in the UK with instant job placement. Attention all international students! Can you tell me how?”.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In September-November 2022, according to the office of national statistics, there were 1.19 million vacancies in the UK. Universities UK International released a report in June 2020 showing that “international students bring over £6.9

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The PIE News

MAY 15, 2023

The latest figures from English UK show optimism for the country’s ELT sector, as MPs responded to the sector’s bid for government help to regain its premier position. In 2022, English UK’s 329 member centres taught 225,641 full-time English language students, for a combined total of 973,716 student weeks.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Leaders are urging the education sector to engage with China, and last week, a group of 20 UK university representatives joined the UK-China Higher Education mission. Photo: ciss.tsinghua Governmental committees in the US and the UK have however delved into the risks of higher education engaging with China.

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HEPI

MARCH 1, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Leo Hanna, Executive Vice President at TechnologyOne Cost-of-living and student welfare have dominated the UK headlines of late, with the cost of food, energy and accommodation outpacing maintenance support. 1] The picture painted wasn’t pretty. 1] The picture painted wasn’t pretty.

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The PIE News

JUNE 8, 2023

The UK government’s decision last week to ban certain international students from bringing dependants with them was met with public expressions of disappointment. According to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics, the number of students bringing dependants doubled in 2022.

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SRHE

MARCH 6, 2024

We also explored the literature relating to the personal, professional, academic, and societal pressures experienced by UK HE students. Students report higher costs of living, impacting their wellbeing and ability to focus on their studies, with increased stress and a greater need to work to sustain themselves ( Sutton Trust, 2023 ).

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HEPI

JUNE 26, 2023

This policy piece has four key interlinking objectives: Considering the changes in postgraduate taught participation (PGT) in the UK across all domiciled groups since 2016/17. Considering the impact the introduction of the Postgraduate Loan Scheme in 2016/17 has had on UK domiciled participation.

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HEPI

MARCH 12, 2023

When research and satisfaction ruled reputation Summer 2022, like each summer two decades before, saw countless university staff across the UK on the edge of their seats for the annual release of metrics that would inform their universities’ reputation for the year after.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

by Tej Nathwani Introduction The 2020s will be a pivotal period in determining the UK’s economic future. Naturally, one of the questions being increasingly asked of the UK higher education sector is how it is helping to resolve some of the latter issues. Area-based data on deprivation will typically be used in two ways.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Just a few years ago, the number of students studying in the UK from Europe outstripped numbers from China as the number one international source market. They constituted about a third of all international students in the UK in 2020/21. Every student was qualified both financially and academically to study in the UK.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The latest Navitas Agent Perception Survey, garnering some 900 responses from agents in October, found that the UK continues to be the strongest performer on perception of visa processing times, with some 78% rating it as good/very good, according to Jon Chew, global head of Insights and Analytics at Navitas.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

We reviewed data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS), looking at employment figures between 2014/15 and 2021/22. This blog was kindly contributed by Leo Hanna, Executive Vice President at TechnologyOne Universities are in a difficult spot.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Australian Bureau of Statistics numbers show that while total exports dropped by 4.7% In total, education had added $34bn to export revenue by September, meaning it is on track to eclipse the record $41bn it earned for the nation in 2019, Universities Australia said. Canberra is due to reveal new immigration policies later this month.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 5, 2023

This statistic showed no change when looking at the results from the same schools in 2020. This statistic showed no change when looking at the results from the same schools in 2020. Due to our truly global network, there are striking variations on this statistic when looking at different regions.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It is the tenth in our series on leadership in partnership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). This blog was written by Professor Sara Spear, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law at St Mary’s University. Connection.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

Some of his predictions, such as large increases in higher education participation among ethnic minority families, occurred; others fared less well, such as his view that the UK would embrace ‘increasing integration into Western Europe’. It is a great pleasure to be back at Lancaster University.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

First we have better data but we need more of the ‘right’ data Statistical reporting on this issue has become more detailed in recent years as applicants applying to university have rightly been encouraged to disclose disabilities without fear of being refused a place at their chosen institution. For 17-23 year olds this was 64%.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

JANUARY 20, 2023

As university staff prepare to go on strike, is it time to take another look at UK HE’s growing reliance on fixed-term and teaching-only contracts? Andrew Jenkins and Alison Wolf explore the changing composition of the workforce in UK universities. In recent decades there has been enormous growth in higher education.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Genuine Temporary Entrant requirement, as previously reported by The PIE , is likely to change, and the 300-word statement students are required to supply is expected to be removed, IEAA chief executive officer Phil Honeywood told an AEERI fringe event. “Getting consensus on that is not going to be straightforward,” he said.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Grit delivers intensive personal development and coaching programmes in universities across the UK. Of the findings from the HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey for 2022 it was that nearly one-in-four students feel lonely ‘all’ or ‘most’ of the time. But we must accept that this vital work doesn’t happen overnight.

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HESA

MAY 11, 2023

Deji-Folutile is editor-in-chief of Frank Talk Now and chief operating officer of AF24 News, who writes frequently on higher education matters from Lagos. Tens of thousands of them go abroad, particularly to the UK to get an education, and hundreds of thousands of attend private universities within the countries as well.

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SRHE

JULY 15, 2022

Her last day of office was 30 June 2022, fittingly coinciding with a meeting of SRHE Council, which was able to congratulate and thank her [1] for her outstanding contribution to the Society in her 18-year tenure. Helen Perkins was appointed as Director of the Society for Research into Higher Education in 2004. Arriving in turmoil.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Former chief inspector of borders says Home Office does not appear to have identified any lessons from ‘this debacle’ In interviews this morning Gillian Keegan , the education secretary, admitted that special educational needs provision was in crisis, Ben Quinn reports. Continue reading.

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HEPI

MARCH 20, 2023

Julian argues a reclassification of universities by the Office for National Statistics is unlikely but, if it were to occur, could result in a suspended sentence in which institutions retain the freedoms they’ve enjoyed pending changes to get them back into the private sector. For details on how to get a free place, see here.

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HEPI

AUGUST 24, 2023

Proposition The first part of this blog set out the proposition for a national student record system to be selected, procured and deployed in every UK HEI resulting in substantial financial savings and major reductions in organisational pain. The article represents the personal views of the author.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Government likely to treat FE sector as ‘big schools’, removing autonomy over borrowing and investment Further education (FE) colleges are likely to be treated as “big schools” by the government and lose critical financial independence, after a ruling reclassified colleges in England as part of central government.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Tej Nathwani, Principal Researcher (Economist) at HESA, the Higher Education Statistics Agency. This is how a recent report by the Resolution Foundation summarised the UK. School attainment is typically below the national average. The key take-away message from our study is as follows.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Not a week goes by these days without a story in the print or broadcast media about the dire finances of UK universities. The lack of long-term sustainable funding is incentivising risk aversion on the part of governing boards – the inverse of the ‘radical’ and ‘transformational’ thinking that the Office for Students is keen to see them take.

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