Yearly Archives: 2024

With the UK government’s budget now delivered, November sees a frenzied month of activity for the Scottish government as it crunches numbers ahead of its own budget for 2025–26, to…

Introduce yourself in three words or phrases.   Edtech lumberjack   What do you like most about your job?  Education has been around for as long as humans have been around in…

This week, UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves made good on the Labour Party’s election promise to slap a 20% tax on private school fees as she unveiled her first Autumn Budget…

“We just opened our office in Dubai to service the Middle Eastern component, and India is also now our big growth market,” Vincent Cunnane, president TUS, told The PIE News…

Most current discussions about fees and higher education funding focus on the cost and debt burden for students, the value for taxpayer, whether or not tertiary education adds value to…

Greetings from Tottenham! And here, on Tottenham High Road, is the Tottenham Polytechnic, established in 1897 by Middlesex County Council, on the site of an old school. The buildings and…

This week on the podcast we pore over Rachel Reeves’ first budget and consider the implications for universities. We also think about students’ finances as bus fares and the minimum…

A Palestinian student who had her visa revoked after she made comments about the Israel-Gaza war has won a human rights appeal against the government’s decision. In technical terms, the…

The multi-sector coalition was founded one year ago to advance policies fostering international student success in the US and has recently expanded its membership to more than 40 education organisations,…

Rachel Reeves‘ first Autumn Budget as Chancellor, revealed on October 30, pledged to go ahead with plans to levy VAT on private school fees from January, as well as scrapping…