The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2023

I just think we have to be real,” said Mr Halfon, “that we have to live in the world as it is, which is an incredibly difficult one faced by cost-of-living challenges.” “I just think we have to be real,” said Mr Halfon, “that we have to live in the world as it is, which is an incredibly difficult one faced by cost-of-living challenges.”

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MindMax

AUGUST 9, 2023

Just like that, another summer is nearly over. In advance of the 2023-2024 academic year, I’m taking time to reflect on recent higher education trends I’ve observed and expect will continue in the year to come. Interestingly, a common thread connects most of these trends: higher education’s imperative to meet students’ needs. Let’s dive in.

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MindMax

AUGUST 9, 2023

Just like that, another summer is nearly over. In advance of the 2023-2024 academic year, I’m taking time to reflect on recent higher education trends I’ve observed and expect will continue in the year to come. Interestingly, a common thread connects most of these trends: higher education’s imperative to meet students’ needs. Let’s dive in.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The 65% fee hike in the Immigration Health Surcharge during a cost of living crisis is already known to have hit talented but less well off international students in the UK. Along with the migration strategy, the government is set to release its final Australian Universities Accord report in December.

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HEPI

MARCH 29, 2023

Whether the problems are temporary or systemic, the answers to them must lie – in part – in UK universities, which are not only educating the next generation of employees but also pushing at the boundaries of knowledge on how to better the world. This year we asked questions about cost of living.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Living and Learning in London in 2023 , a new report from the UK capital’s higher education association London Higher, outlines how both international and domestic students see life as a learner in the city. Findings from the report also showcase how those graduating in the city greatly value its post-graduation employment prospects.

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The PIE News

APRIL 20, 2023

Additionally, due to a cost-of-living crisis that is affecting major destinations around the world, 51% even said they are reconsidering the idea of study abroad altogether. Photo: IDP Connect “As the cost-of-living increases, the research highlights that students need more support and guidance.

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HEPI

MAY 7, 2024

Published last month, a HEPI Policy Note on ‘Non-continuation of students in the UK’ observed that continuation rates differ according to such factors as ethnicity, disability, deprivation and free school meals status. These challenges have meanwhile been making headlines in the HE sector news.

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HEPI

JANUARY 23, 2024

To preserve the high quality of our sector and our ability to attract investment, talent and world-class research, it is vital that the higher education provider unit of resource be restored to 2012 levels as soon as practically possible. TechnologyOne has also found that students saw the cost of living rise by 13.6%

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HEPI

MAY 17, 2023

There is, however, much more that can be done – both to tackle the climate crisis but also wider questions of creating a sustainable world in which we can live. This HEPI blog was kindly contributed by Anthony McClaran , GuildHE Chair and Vice-Chancellor of St Mary’s University, Twickenham.

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The PIE News

MARCH 13, 2023

It’s the worst of both worlds, really. “You can’t get the volume in unless you take the risk in accommodation” Homeowners are recognising, especially during the cost of living crisis, the “significant” financial gain of hosting international students, he said.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 12, 2023

And yet the crisis in Yemen rarely makes international news headlines. “The UN has consistently described Yemen as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, but it’s also a higher education emergency,” he said. The statistics are harrowing. An estimated 377,000 deaths in the seven years to 2021.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This year, the theme is dignity for all in practice, as there are many people living in persistent poverty who experience their dignity being denied and disrespected. . billion people still live in multidimensional poverty throughout the world, with 14.5 The long-term cost. Closer to home. Closer to home.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

First among those fears is that social and economic factors would combine to impose an opportunity cost on young Americans considering military service, otherwise overwhelming motivations grounded in patriotism and citizenship. Now, more than ever, that opportunity cost is palpable. In fiscal year 2022, the U.S. jobs exceed 10 million.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 3, 2023

Over 350 professionals from the international education sector gathered on the Gold Coast in July at the inaugural PIE Live Australia for two days of discussions, upskilling and networking. Delegates also had the opportunity to meet colleagues from around the world and let their hair down at a glamorous gala dinner.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Our sector is, rightly, recognised as world-leading due to the quality of our research. Over two-thirds of this funding is linked to outcomes from the Research Excellence Framework, such that our most research-intensive universities, producing the highest volumes of world-leading research, receive a higher proportion of available funds.

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HEPI

MAY 4, 2023

Jo Richards at UCAS, also on HEPI, points out that with the cost of living crisis impacting students disproportionately , this year many students are “ thinking ahead to a student experience that might be very different to the one they had originally expected: over half had lowered their expectations about student life.”

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

With almost three-quarters of the classes of 2022 and 2023 (73%) stating they believed their higher education experience was worth the cost, how can we keep them engaged? With almost three-quarters of the classes of 2022 and 2023 (73%) stating they believed their higher education experience was worth the cost, how can we keep them engaged?

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

English universities are, by many measures, consistently among the very best in the world, outperforming most if not all other competitors. The UK is world-leading in the time to completion and graduation into the skilled workforce. These shifts amount to a slow transfer of costs from the state to the individual.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As before, this implies a greater familiarity with and confidence in using AI tools, which may result in the most privileged students being better prepared for employment in an AI-driven world. The cost of subscription is a significant factor: currently access to ChatGPT-3.5

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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

1 Tackling the Escalating Student Mental Health & Wellbeing Crisis Looking back on the early days of the pandemic it was clear that issues impacting student mental health & well-being would persist beyond mask mandates and social distancing.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The crisis reinforced the need for the university to build its own water system, something administrators have discussed for several years. Jackson State’s more than 7,000 students resumed in-person classes today, though Hudson said some have left because of the crisis, but he’s not sure how many. million project.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

by Neil Raven Much attention is now directed towards the role of evaluation in efforts to widening higher education participation. In contrast, the role of research in widening participation [WP] receives far less attention and appears to be considered of less significance.

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The PIE News

MARCH 3, 2023

Providers in the country are optimistic for the year ahead, despite facing ongoing challenges around accommodation, staffing and the cost of living crisis. Total student weeks were up by 28,000, with the overall student week volume in the last quarter of 2022 reaching around 56% of 2019 levels.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Would you buy a house or a vehicle without carefully assessing how much either cost relative to the impact the investment will have on your life—now and in the future? As its new president, I have reflected on why a Minerva University degree holds greater value, one far beyond the “general requirement” into the professional world.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Before we start down this slippery slope, let’s consider what we can do to address the assumptions and change the crisis narrative surrounding the humanities. To start, though, I agree that tuition structures need an overhaul and, ideally, would be covered by federal or state funding.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Perceived value of higher education remains strong Despite the cost of living crisis and fierce competition for places, universities saw significant growth in the number of applicants and acceptances from 18-year-olds in 2022, increasing by 4% from 2021 and by 16% on 2019 pre-pandemic levels (equating to 16,580 and 55,930 students respectively).

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The digital world is sufficiently obscured from the majority of people, sometimes deliberately, and the ‘trust train’ may have now hit to buffers, reminiscent of the end of the dot-com boom. The fact that you may feel like you cannot keep up with the news is understandable. So what of the metaverse?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Bright There are certain conditions in our lives and in our communities that we can no longer wait to change. When the representative from the service department came back after inspecting my car, she had a list of recommended repairs that included a major revamp of the car’s braking system. I was going to make it happen no matter what.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In the year that passed, as Ukrainians suffered devastating losses, the geopolitical tensions of the conflict played out across the international education world. In the year that passed, as Ukrainians suffered devastating losses, the geopolitical tensions of the conflict played out across the international education world.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Søren Kierkegaard had it right: life must be lived forward but can only be understood backward. The first was the Great Recession, the financial crisis that began in December 2007. The financial crisis also made the academy inescapably aware of a basic fact: that most students had to work while they earned their degree.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 18, 2023

At the same time, maintenance funding has decreased in real terms amidst a cost-of-living crisis, and the system for graduate repayments is becoming less progressive. Policymakers hope that universities will train more students with advanced technical skills to meet the needs of a rapidly changing, technology rich world.

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HEPI

JANUARY 3, 2023

Universities across the country have stepped up to support their staff and students through the conflict, and the related cost of living crisis, as well as partnering with Ukrainian institutions to help them rebuild and retain talent.

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2024

During the pandemic, students in high school, as well as other digital natives, honed their abilities to respond to technical content delivery while balancing the need to work and sustain their daily lives through a personalized schedule. 1 concern of students is cost, but a close second is simply that they don’t like going to school.

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The PIE News

MARCH 21, 2023

A young man leaves his car and enters an immigration office in Ikoyi, one of the wealthier parts of Lagos. The video cuts to him walking down a corridor, waving his new green passport. Officials wearing khaki clothing pass in the other direction, ignoring the camera that follows him. The man returns to his car smiling. It’s the noise, it’s the buzz.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Monday 10 th October marks the day internationally recognised by the World Health Organisation as World Mental Health Day with an overall objective of raising awareness of mental health issues globally and mobilising efforts in support of mental health. . And it’s not just students who are struggling.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Of course, financial indicators expressed as a percentage of income for institutions of very variable sizes give no feel for the absolute amount of cash owed, or the annual cost of repayments. when the Monetary Policy Committee next meets on Thursday 21st September ( Guardian , Financial Times , 24 August 2023 ).

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