Ahead of the panel discussion, “Agents Speak: What they wish universities would do,” at The PIE Live Europe 2024, agents exposed fault lines in financial partnerships and called to be treated…
This week’s BBC documentary Is university really worth it? explored issues such as expensive fees and loans, UCU industrial action, grade inflation, and student poverty. Presented by comedian and former…
In 1836 William Otter, the first principal of King’s College London, was appointed Bishop of Chichester. Amongst his actions in his brief tenure (he died in 1840) he established a…
The new London office, opened in November 2023, is EIC’s second UK office, after the first was established in Manchester back in 2017. “As the birthplace of Western education, the UK…
The paper, commissioned by the British Council and conducted by Oxford Economics, projects that slowing world GDP growth will also see a slowdown of outbound student numbers per nation. The research found…
The government has published an “updated, more focused” definition of extremism, following Rishi Sunak’s Friday evening address on “extremist disruption”. It says that the new definition is designed to respond…
Back in the early noughteens when the £9,000 undergraduate fee was looming in England, the debate about risks around rising student expectation focused on an imagined version of a luxury…
It’s the latest example of an unfair policy change in the treatment of international students that focuses on the symptom without fixing the cause. International students invest heavily in coming…
The Office for Students frequently takes great pains to let you know that it is a regulator. It is less often you see OfS thinking about its parallel role as…
The PIE spoke to three internationalisation heads at universities in Mexico, the UK and Spain to get their take on what internationalisation means for their institutions. It’s not all about…