The PIE News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Members of staff in the modern languages department at the University of Aberdeen – and beyond – are campaigning against proposals to cut language and culture degree programs at the university. “We have established a Steering Group which will bring forward plans for consultation in due course,” they continued.

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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). Universities are driven by several factors, from teaching and student satisfaction to the demands of the local business community , as well as the push to respond to social and technological change.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Today, Cardiff Metropolitan University made a landmark announcement in support of migrants’ rights by approving a policy to never invest in companies complicit in violence against people migrating and seeking sanctuary. This is the first time a UK university has aligned investment policy with immigration justice.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Troy is a Fulbright Scholar and Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester’s Institute of Education. As someone who has carried out similar qualitative work, the effort and hurdles involved in recruiting even a small number of participants from the upper echelons of university management is significant.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

The disdain shown to us by Queen Mary University of London inspired me to redouble my efforts on the picket lines. Staff and students have had enough On 29 June 2022, all the staff at Queen Mary University of London, where I work, received an email from management. But several things quickly became clear. Continue reading.

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The PIE News

JULY 17, 2023

Students at universities in London are becoming increasingly restless as university marking boycotts approach their third month. The halt on marking is nationwide and is the culmination of failed industrial negotiations between the University and College Union and the Universities & Colleges Employers Association.

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HEPI

JANUARY 9, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Jeff Frank, Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London and Norman Gowar, Professor Emeritus at the University of London. HEPI has published the third version of its analysis of the economic benefits of our universities hosting overseas students. of postgraduates).

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PeopleAdmin

AUGUST 17, 2023

Data and analytics are more important than ever to colleges and universities today. Northern Illinois University’s Affirmative Action Overhaul Alan Clay, Associate Director for Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity at Northern Illinois University (NIU), recognized the need to revamp their workflows and enhance their EEO capabilities.

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University Business

MARCH 20, 2023

With high inflation, failing banks and rounds of layoffs across industries, many colleges and universities may be concerned about what kind of job market their graduating students will face. How Villanova turns student degrees into jobs appeared first on University Business. More from UB: Undergrad credential earners fall 1.6

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The PIE News

AUGUST 28, 2023

While concerned parents and guardians plus placement agents have long complained about the trend, university managers are now also coming out, blaming the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada for the dipping numbers. “However, its outcome is quite visible. . “However, its outcome is quite visible.

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SRHE

JANUARY 4, 2024

Over the past few years, we’ve been analysing some of the data generated from Aston University. Professor Liz Moores is Deputy Dean in the College of Health and Life Sciences at Aston University and has research interests in the evaluation of higher education, particularly as applied to widening participation issues.

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HEPI

JANUARY 17, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Francesca Peruzzo, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham; Rille Raaper, Associate Professor, Durham University; and Mette Westander, Founding Director, Disabled Students UK. Disabled students should be consulted more thoroughly and on all matters concerning their university experience.

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HEPI

JULY 25, 2023

Videos recently emerged of disruption to graduation ceremonies at the University of Edinburgh. Universities and unions are in a standoff, and the scenes demonstrate how emotionally charged and bitter the dispute has become. The problem of collective bargaining A popular trend is to blame universities for their failure to negotiate.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I think you could say a new paradigm for university leadership (or management) arose when league tables came along. League tables changed all that: managers were, often, told to do whatever it took to change the metric for which they were responsible. A new management paradigm had emerged.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In this response, I want to do three things: pick and connect some particularly fruitful points from each talk – there were many, so this is hard; comment on assemblages and assemblage thinking in relation to current and future learning arrangements, and segue into the practical work of realising better spaces for learning in better universities.

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SRHE

JULY 19, 2023

At the time of writing there seems little prospect of rapprochement between the employers and the Universities and Colleges Union. To make things even worse, universities, under pressure from government, the media, and the regulator OfS, have cut back sharply on the proportion of first class honours to be awarded.

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EAB

JUNE 20, 2023

But this topline growth pattern offers only an incomplete picture of what’s going on, setting college and university leaders up to miss the real challenges and make the wrong course corrections. How many of them end up enrolling in any college or university? How many of those who enroll end up at your institution? Simply put, EAB U.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

OfS expected to gain new powers to regulate freedom of speech issues in England The Office for Students will make freedom of speech and “off-limits” subjects on university campuses one of its top priorities for next year, despite the regulator receiving only around 60 complaints over the last four years.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

Encourage or lead a course/subject group activity where colleagues start by looking at how they use their own spaces, then visit other parts of their university. For example, universities create specific spaces with the aim of helping to build a sense of community but then impose rules on how those spaces can be used.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 8, 2024

The Universities and College Union Aberdeen branch has opened a strike ballot following the University of Aberdeen’s proposal to cut modern languages degrees. The consultation began in late 2023, with university officials proposing the idea to senior university management.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: The reaction was swift when an anonymous student wrote “Black people suck” on a library whiteboard at American University in February. ” An official of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression wrote a letter to university president Sylvia M.

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HEPI

JULY 27, 2023

While there might be several reasons that this crucial first deadline was missed by many (and I won’t pretend to know the ins and out of each of these universities’ management information systems) it is fair to say 21 institutions failing to provide indicative data by the deadline says a bit about the challenges the sector faces.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The simple truth is that the average student leaves university with £45,800 of debt and if they have nothing to show for it then we have failed them” (Hansard, 2021). by Peter Wolstencroft, Elizabeth Whitfield and Track Dinning.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

Drumm McNaughton speaks with economist and investment manager David Linton about his findings from his upcoming book, Crushed: How Student Debt Has Impaired a Generation and What to Do About It. Podcast Highlights The cost of higher ed in terms of percentage of household income has risen dramatically in the past 50 years.

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SRHE

JULY 11, 2022

She had taken to telephoning individual vice-chancellors to question some aspect of university management or student behaviour, while enthusiastically pursuing the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which at the time of writing is at the committee stage in the House of Lords, procedurally close to its establishment in statute – perhaps.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

Image: An enrollment surge at Tennessee State University combined with a lack of student housing led to a scathing comptroller’s report calling for a change in the historically Black university’s leadership. Lowe voted in favor of the one-year extension. million, from $5.2 million the previous year.

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

Is a University a University without the Liberal Arts” asks Devereaux, referring to a recent shuttering of nine programs in mathematics, history, art, English and philosophy at Marymount University in Virginia. First of all, around the world, there are some quite good universities which do not offer programs in the humanities.

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