What academics want from academic support
You hear a lot about building academic support systems around the student, and rightly so, but there’s a solid case to spend some time reflecting on what the academic staff…
A creative degree is about more than just GDP
We have a new government and many in higher education will be immensely relieved. The Conservative government’s attacks on so-called “low value” courses hit creative arts provision particularly hard. But…
Payment giant TransferMate wades into sector with Enroly, Intrinsiq partnerships
Enroly described its partnership with the platform as a “service to make payments and refunds in international student admissions simpler”. It will work as a fully integrated TransferMate software within…
Stakeholders look forward to “more collaborative” relationship with UK government
Speaking to The PIE News, UUKi director Jamie Arrowsmith said that Labour had already made some welcome interventions on the campaign trail, “saying they would change the narrative around universities”.…
Indian students flock to Europe as big four falter
Countries like Germany, Italy, France, Finland, and Ireland are witnessing a record number of students from India. The interest in Europe is further highlighted by the fact that 146 Indian…
India anticipates incoming expansion of British TNE
“There are certainly UK universities that are very close to announcing their India branch campuses,” some being months or even “weeks away”, Avantika Tomar, partner at EY Parthenon Education Practice…
UK sector welcomes new PM Keir Starmer as Labour storms Westminster
The UK sector broadly welcomed the election result this morning, which saw the Labour party take a staggering 411 seat majority at the time of writing. Sector leaders were hopeful…
Thirty seven things Labour should do now to make things better for students
Whoever ends up holding the universities brief, and whichever government department ends up looking after higher education, it’s tempting to think that the sector and its students should now just…
A look at Labour’s in-tray for higher education
It’s a particularly odd feature of the Westminster parliamentary system that no sooner has the post-election celebration champagne gone flat than the new government is suddenly responsible for running the…
Higher education postcard: St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Universities are keen to claim precedence over others – witness the shenanigans about which of UCL and King’s College London was first, and whether they or Durham were England’s third…