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…
In a letter dated March 11, James Cleverly wrote to chair of the MAC, Brian Bell, outlining the terms of reference for the “rapid” review of the UK’s Graduate Route,…
Institutions speaking to The PIE warn of a business chaos and a fallout for brand Australia, given rejections which do not seem to make sense and some ongoing paralysis in…
The concept of “undermatch” – students attending courses that are less selective than might be expected given their academic attainment – has divided opinion. Should the possibility of better outcomes…
Much is made of the higher education funding crisis – and we could well ask how we got here. Universities will blame inflation and reduced government funding. But in truth…