If we want the UK to be a successful nation with strong economic growth we also need to recognise the value and contribution of level 7 and level 8 skills - postgraduate masters and PhD studies which many high tech industries require. These students often re-enter HE after significant work experience. At Cranfield University we support these students at the point of entry and throughout their careers.
💬’We are going to need to find more flexible ways of allowing people to enter higher education at different points of their lives.’ The government’s ambition for two-thirds of young people to achieve a higher-level qualification by age 25 will require coherent pathways and effective collaboration.🎓🤝 Speaking at the recent Parliament Education Select Committee reviewing Higher Education & Funding, UUK Chief Executive, Vivienne Stern highlights the pathways required to create opportunities and deliver the government’s targets for the post-16 skills system⬇️
LinkedIn Top Higher Education Voice, publisher of International Employability Insight (IEI) & founder of Asia Careers Group SDN BHD
22hWhile we understand the sector’s frustration, five years ago the financial challenges facing the UK #highered sector could have been addressed & perhaps some of this damaging legislation, such as the #internationalstudent levy & reduction in #poststudywork, could have been avoided. If #UUK & the wider sector had focused on disassociating #internationaleducation from what was a totally predictable politically motivated #immigration debate, they might not now be giving evidence to Parliament on the “Threat of Insolvency & International Students” in UK #highereducation. Back in 2019, & many times since, we wrote that #internationalstudents need more than #poststudywork. The key to sustainable international #studentrecruitment and long-term growth lies in evidencing international #graduateoutcomes in students’ home countries. Doing so would have given the UK a unique selling point in global #highereducation, allowing universities to differentiate themselves through outcomes and to demonstrate the ROI of a UK #degree. Asia Careers Group SDN BHD has spent a decade tracking the #career trajectories of tens of thousands of #internationalgraduates from #UK, #Australian universities, that have returned home following their #degrees.