Take a look at some of the recent investigations the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has conducted: HS2, flooding preparedness, the procurement of PPE during the pandemic. Big, contested…
Higher education’s haves and have-nots have been classified in many ways over the decades: working class versus middle class; poor versus rich; first in family to go to university versus…
In 2023, there were 457,673 sponsored study visas granted to main applicants – 5 per cent fewer than in 2022, but 70 per cent higher than 2019. That’s the big…
When I first started working in the higher education sector in 2010, many of the challenges faced by students who may have experienced estrangement from close family members were hidden.…
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In 2021 the UPP Foundation Student Futures Commission had an ambitious aim: to understand how the pandemic was impacting new and current students, and to identify how the higher education…
Based on last week’s Home Office statistics, we are looking at some fundamental shifts in international recruitment (and, indeed international enrolment) patterns. Jim’s piece on the data release goes over…
Back in 2018, UCAS stopped requiring applicants to disclose “unspent” criminal records on their university application for non-regulated degrees (degrees that do not require an enhanced criminal record check). Five…
The province – which saw approximately 97,000 study permit applications in 2023 for undergraduate programs in 2023 – said it will begin issuing provincial attestation letters to eligible post-secondary institutions from…
Speaking on the Group of Eight’s podcast, DebateGo8, Australia’s shadow minister for Home Affairs, James Paterson, acknowledged that engaging in international education is “a fundamentally healthy thing” for universities. “It should just…