The PIE News

JANUARY 30, 2024

The NHS Surcharge and working hour cap for international students should be scrapped, the UK’s National Union of Students has said. The UK should also rejoin the Erasmus+ program, which it left when it left the European Union. The post UK: NUS calls for NHS Surcharge & work hour scrap appeared first on The PIE News.

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HEPI

MARCH 8, 2024

HEPI Director Nick Hillman sums up the discussions heard during the last fortnight’s HEPI / London Economics / Nuffield Foundation events across the UK. We recorded the sessions in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland (but could not do so for technical / venue reasons in Wales). It’s a wrap!

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The PIE News

AUGUST 17, 2023

An open letter urging the UK Home Office to act promptly on the case of a detained international student accused of breaching visa conditions has reached 1,241 signatures. The post Student groups in UK campaign for detained student appeared first on The PIE News.

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The PIE News

JULY 27, 2023

The government of Ireland has committed €2 million to allow students in Northern Ireland to access the Erasmus+ exchange program, despite the UK pulling out of the program when it left the European Union in 2020.

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HEPI

JANUARY 16, 2024

Around the UK, the maintenance loan has, to varying degrees, always tended to fall short of living costs. These stats come as no surprise to anyone with even half an eye on the levels of student funding in the UK. per cent in Scotland and, at worst, 0 per cent in Northern Ireland. per cent, and never fell lower than 7.8

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

QAA has the privilege of a UK-wide remit, with varying roles across the nations. Chief among these is the UK Quality Code – a sector-owned commitment to the key components of a high-quality student learning experience. This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Kevin McStravock , Lead Policy Officer for the Nations & Europe.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A prominent parliamentary group advocating for international students in the UK has called for the cohort to be taken out of net migration figures as talks continue on planned migration cuts. It also sends the wrong signal about the UK on the global stage,” he added. “It

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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

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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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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The PIE News

JANUARY 18, 2024

The growing proliferation of regional groups, advisory boards, conferences and organic meet-ups has highlighted the appetite for trusted knowledge exchange in the UK recruitment sector. It also chairs an elected committee of representatives from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. explained Terrington.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 24, 2023

As part of the Bologna Process, the UK is committed to the European Standards and Guidelines, internationally agreed good practice in quality oversight. The policy paper outlines how realigning with this good practice could help retain international trust in UK higher education. She sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Such a radical change in provision will have serious consequences for the whole of the north of Scotland in terms of equal access to language education,” one member of the university’s modern languages department, who wished to remain anonymous, told The PIE News.

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The PIE News

JULY 10, 2023

Since its launch 20 years ago, approximately 55,000 Chinese students have graduated with an Advanced Diploma delivered by the Scottish Qualifications Authority, with the pathway program acting as a significant contributor to the flow of Chinese students into the UK. With increasing interest from the Americas too, expansion is expected. .

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The PIE News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Andrew studied in the UK and went on to represent many British institutions in China. UK alumnus I graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2004 with an MBA. International education I have worked with international education ever since I graduated in the UK in 2004. Introduce yourself in three words or phrases.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Black, working-class and mature students most at risk of being forced out of higher education by financial pressures The cost of living crisis is placing nearly 300,000 UK students in financial peril, with a disproportionate number of older, working-class or Black students likely to drop out, according to analysis by a university group.

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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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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

He also offers consultancy on market entry and Africa operations with clients from Canada, Australia, UK and Europe. It is inspiring every day to have conversations with clients based all over the world – all from my home in Dunblane in Scotland. What do you like most about your job? If you had a magic wand, what would you change?

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The PIE News

APRIL 29, 2023

The House of Lords European Affairs Committee has called for a UK-EU relations “reset”, including a shake up of the current student mobility landscape. ” The report outlined recommendations, focused on priority actions in a bid to reset the UK-EU relations following the recent agreement of the Windsor Framework. .”

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HEPI

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Rasha Kassem, research project team lead for ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Staff in UK Higher Education – A Comparative Analysis across the Four UK Nations’ at the Open University. See Rasha’s previous HEPI blog, ‘How did COVID-19 impact staff in UK higher education?’. Policy implications.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Robert Crammond, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS). At least half of UK universities deliver a notable entrepreneurship course or programme, and many proudly highlight their in-house business support for academic spinouts and student start-ups.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Essay mill companies are still “thriving” in the UK despite legislation designed to stamp them out, The PIE News has learned. One twitter account called “Top Essay” tweeted: “Essay writing service for ten years, has been the UK region for international students to provide high-quality reliable British essay writing”. factoftheday.

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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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HEPI

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As CEO of London Higher, I am conscious that our organisation has the privilege of representing a rich diversity of members not even shared by Universities UK (UUK). Yet, Westminster retains responsibility for science, research and innovation UK-wide.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Love it or loathe it, a festive and often nostalgic advertisement for its department stores operating throughout the UK has become part of a sometimes schmaltzy run up to the festive season. In the UK, there are over 108,000 children in the care system, and many more who know what Ellie feels like. We don’t want to go there again.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Taking a blind leap into consultancy in 2013 after 19 years working within (and leading) university international relations and marketing functions (in Wales, Scotland, then England). The post Vicky Lewis, Consultant, UK appeared first on The PIE News. Tell me about a defining moment in your career.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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. Each nation of the UK, however, adopts a different approach in generating its index from the Indices of Deprivation. Comparability is also an important aspect of high-quality statistics.

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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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SRHE

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Given the state of the UK economy and the role mobility may have on individuals and growth, this is a topic that will remain salient in forthcoming years. One of the limitations of using such an aggregated level of geography, however, is that Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are all classified as individual regions.

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HEPI

AUGUST 29, 2023

Between 2020 and 2030, the UK population will expand by 27 per cent. On current admission trends, this would mean an increase of 40,000 students in England by 2025 (and a fall of around 18,000 students in Scotland). UK undergraduate applicant numbers were down significantly for a big chunk of the post-1992 sector.

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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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HEPI

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Institutions in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can participate on a voluntary basis. Since its inception in 2017, the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) has become an integral part of assessing and recognising the quality of undergraduate teaching and learning in the English higher education system.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Educators’ digital priorities In spring 2023, Wonkhe and Kortext conducted a survey of educators in UK universities to explore how the role of technology in learning, teaching and student support has evolved post-Covid. Leveraging technology Post-pandemic, hybrid learning and working have become more normalised.

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HEPI

AUGUST 25, 2023

Clearly not all universities in the UK are over 100 years old but they seem solidly to meet these criteria. 2 During that time, UK universities have grown from graduating almost 600,000 people in 2003, to over 900,000 in 2022. In reading HEPI’s twentieth anniversary report, I found myself reflecting on these characteristics.

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SRHE

JANUARY 24, 2024

The well attended event attracted participants not only from Scotland, but also from Northern Ireland and from England, as far south at Bournemouth. I enjoyed attending several Employability events as a valued opportunity to network with colleagues from the UK and abroad and explore collaborative opportunities.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In the month of May 2023, for example, we produced a detailed report with Universities UK, Kaplan and London Economics on the economic contribution of international students as well as a lengthy report with SUMS on how the terms and conditions for academics compare to those of other professionals.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

During the survey that was conducted in Spring 2023 of 463 academic and teaching and learning support professionals in UK universities, it was found that only 20% of respondents were confident that students understood the expectations in digitally enhanced learning, highlighting a disparity in communication and expectations.

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