…ce between welcoming legitimate international students and blocking the not-so-legitimate ones? In two new reports out today, the Higher Education Policy Institute puts the Australian higher education system under the microscope and then compares it to the English one. Both reports conclude that England could learn lessons from the Australian system, particularly on the support offered to students other than first-degree students. It is very hard…
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…t believes in the potential of a nation and is choosing to invest in a high-skill, high-wage, more prosperous future. Expansion of higher education is both an economic and a moral imperative. Given Labour’s record on this issue, we may be close to a political consensus on the need for fully funded expansion of higher education – a consensus that will lead public opinion. Of course we will continue to have doubters. Of course we will have those tha…
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…w require a higher education qualification while the number of jobs for non-graduates is rapidly declining. Graduates have been shown to live longer, healthier and happier lives bringing benefits to the individual and to the UK economy. Graduates earn considerably more than people with lower level qualifications. If students are not going on to higher education there is a good chance they will never be able to access the top jobs of the future and…
…y’s opening statement she said: “It used to be that investment in infrastructure and physical capital (big machinery) was the best way to drive economic growth. We are now living a world where human capital is the primary indicator of economic growth. In the words of President Obama: ‘those who out-educate us today will out-perform us tomorrow’. Despite all the rhetoric in the UK about too many graduates, too many universities, needing more appren…
…ss to university fair for all. Of course, this is essential for economic efficiency and social justice. But increasingly evidence shows that simply getting into university does not ensure graduate success: the ‘best’ graduate jobs remain closely linked to the socio-economic and education status of ones parents’ and skewed according to ethnicity, gender and type of schooling.’ Read the full article here….
…cross the UK. Over the next few years we also will expand the export side of the business with distribution already lined up for Japan. In addition to this, depending on the scale of success of the first *TeaShed pop-up, we would roll out a nationwide pop-up *TeaShed plan, with a *TeaShed in every major city by 2018. Move over coffee houses, it’s time for Tea Sheds!” Read Jules’ full story here and visit The *TeaShed….
…y to control it,” Professor West said. Professor West, who is also the vice-chancellor of the University of the West England in Bristol, believes there is potential for universities to cooperate in overseas expansions and creating attractive course offerings and work placement opportunities. “No university can deliver the full menu,” he said. “Vice-chancellors are interested in greater leverage on the international stage,” he said. “It is about ne…
…ention on the Rights of the Child; that courts should consider the child’s best interests when sentencing; and prisons should provide child-friendly visiting centres. UK Supreme Court judge Baroness Hale is a patron of the COPING project and attended its Brussels conference. Afterwards she said: “All in the criminal justice, social welfare and education fields should recognise the needs of this group of children and make proper provision for them….
