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All Michigan Public Schools Will Be Required to Collect Specific Tribal Affiliation Data

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The data collected will allow for a more accurate accounting of the Indigenous student population and give the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) and the state's 12 federally recognized tribes a chance to see Native American student achievements and graduation rates. And by having this data, tribes can actually help out.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Banks to serve as president. “It

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‘Art makes a person broader’: what sculptor Ruth Asawa knew that Rishi Sunak doesn’t

The Guardian - Higher Education

The British PM may believe that compulsory maths is the key to education – but Asawa showed a different path, armed with little more than flour and water ‘Art will make people better, more highly skilled in thinking and improving whatever business or occupation one goes into. It makes a person broader.” So proclaimed Ruth Asawa in 1976.

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Universities can set up in India but regulations pose challenge

The PIE News

India wants to internationalise its higher education system and tackle brain-drain, as set out in the 2020 National Education Policy , while foreign institutions are keen to capitalise on the growing demand from Indian students. The nature of the business entity will also determine how much tax they are liable to pay. “The

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Just what is the state of private education in 2023? By Nick Hillman

HEPI

The book brings together 55 different authors – including academics, a vice-chancellor and numerous education policy experts (such as Sam Freedman, Lord Lucas, Jonathan Simons , Ann Mroz and Tom Richmond). It is (nearly) true but, like lots of averages, it masks more than it reveals.

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Is India the world’s next top knowledge power?

The PIE News

India has the second largest number of enrolments in the world, is rapidly growing access to education and has the third highest volume of scholarly outputs in the world. Student enrolments Globally, there are 39 national systems with more than 1 million enrolments in higher education compared to 33 in 2016. in 2015 or 17.8%

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

HEPI

These remarks were made by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to yesterday’s Centre for Global Higher Education ( CGHE ) event marking the recent twenty-fifth anniversary of the Dearing report. Early on, one of our first reports concerned the personal and public economic benefits of higher education.