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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Named Provost at Western Michigan University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Julian Vasquez Heilig, an educational researcher whose work on racial equity and teacher preparation has received national recognition, will be the next provost and vice president for academic affairs at Western Michigan University. He will do the same as provost at Western Michigan University.” history.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. Today, she is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.

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Shifts, shocks, fragility: are English universities on a sustainable course? By John Raftery

HEPI

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by John Raftery, Principal of John Raftery and Associates and former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Wolverhampton and London Metropolitan University. English universities are, by many measures, consistently among the very best in the world, outperforming most if not all other competitors.

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Freedom of speech, lifts, and the importance of terminology

HEPI

As the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill returns to Parliament today, HEPI is running two blogs on the issue. Boggs, University Clerk at Kingston University and Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPs). Context: Universities’ balancing acts with freedom of speech.

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Will English lose its position as the global lingua franca?

The PIE News

How will any changes to the way English is used impact education policies? Written with my British Council colleagues, Mike Solly and Steve Copeland, the book builds on the 1997 and 2006 seminal work by British linguist David Graddol. Where next for research into the future of English and English learning?

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WEEKEND READING: 25 years on from the Dearing report, have we kept its spirit alive?

HEPI

The basic idea on fees and funding in the Dearing report of a fee that would not be differentiated by subject, for example, but which would cover one-quarter of the average cost of higher education tuition backed by an income-contingent loan has actually proved remarkably durable. Here we are, 25 years later, still talking about it.

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What do students think about value for money?

SRHE

Prospective university students were in a similar position, being expected to make a cost-conscious decision about their degree education with limited understanding of their options. In England, undergraduate fees of £1000 were introduced more than 20 years ago, raised to £3000 in 2006, and to £9000 more than ten years ago.