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On the back of the HEPI, UUKi and Kaplan International Pathways report with updated figures on the economic benefit that international students bring to the UK, London Higher, along with Universities UK International, BUILA, UKCISA and British Council – Study UK, are relaunching the #WeAreInternational campaign. We are hoping that…
This policy piece has four key interlinking objectives: Changes in postgraduate taught study In 2010/11, the overall number of PGT enrolments in the UK reached a peak (see Table 1). UK domiciled enrolments were across all PGT offerings (i.e. masters, PGCE, other PG) whereas for EU and Non-EU, it was…
I recently had the pleasure of attending one of HEPI’s roundtable dinners, in partnership with TechnologyOne, to discuss how far technology can address the higher education sector’s biggest challenges. The roundtable led, as one might expect, to an initial discussion about what exactly are the higher education sector’s biggest challenges.…
Yesterday, HEPI and Advance HE released the 2023 iteration of the annual Student Academic Experience Survey (SAES). The results always provide profound insight into student life and, with a sample size of over 10,000, they can be firmly relied upon for understanding how students are dealing with ‘the new normal’…
Degree students up and down the country are finishing their final assessments before seeking to enter the workplace. Among them are thousands of arts and humanities students whose employment destinations will be many and varied. And that’s a good thing. HEPI’s recent report The Humanities in the UK today: what’s…
I have been given a wide brief for this speech. So I began my preparations by going back to see what I said when I last spoke to the Hallam Board, back in 2017. I started my remarks then by noting the level of flux in higher education policy. We…
Plan E for Education is my proposal that a proportion of the educational resources generated in publicly funded universities be made freely available for sharing and use by others. This would be the educational equivalent of initiatives that require publicly funded research to be published in open access journals or…
It’s been a busy time for QAA responding to the rise of generative AI. After three webinars attended by over 2,000 people, discussions with providers across the UK, a brief trip to Tbilisi to share best practice with European quality agency colleagues, one piece of guidance out and another to…
Among national discussions around student mental health, the University of Bath is actively working and continuously evaluating its support for students, aiming to embed a whole-university culture of care. My role as Training Officer in Pastoral Support, has been created to support this endeavour, delivering sessions focused primarily on the…
The future for international students in the UK should be bright, provided the sector reforms and deals with issues that have surfaced during the last couple of years of growth. The political consensus that was so supportive of growth in international student numbers in 2019 has weakened. It would be…