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Universities are a vital public asset. We must save them | Letters

The Guardian - Higher Education

Prof Des Freedman , Michael Bassey , John Sommer and Sally Bates respond to an article about the dire state of Britain’s higher education institutions Gaby Hinsliff ( Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding, 29 March ) says “the story [of decline] starts with the freezing of tuition fees in 2017”.

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My 2024 Higher Education Finance Reading List (Robert Kelchen)

Higher Education Inquirer

[Editor's note: This article first appeared at the Kelchen on Education blog.] This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. The higher education finance landscape and data sources Chetty, R., Friedman, J.

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Higher-education opportunities for students with disabilities are growing in Nashville

University Business

In 2010, Vanderbilt became the first university in the state and among the first in the country to create a higher-education program for students with intellectual or developmental disabilities with Next Steps. Read more on the Nashville Scene.

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Does the multiplication of alternative providers call for a new review of higher education?

HEPI

The proposals of the Robbins Report on Higher Education considered the role of providers of tertiary education. It concluded that to ‘confer degree-giving powers on all the existing’ Further Education Colleges ‘would be inappropriate because of the number involved, the variation in their sizes and the diversity of standards’.

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Fostering a sense of safety in higher education

SRHE

What does it mean to feel ‘safe’ within the higher education classroom? In fact, some pedagogical researchers argue that students experience topics differently, and assuming students homogenously feel safe fails to consider this diversity ( Barrett, 2010 ).

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UK education and TNE exports valued at £27.9bn in 2021

The PIE News

Of the total, transnational education exports were valued at £2.4bn. The share of the total attributed to higher education was 77.9% at £21.74bn and education products and services at £2.15bn. Exports related to independent schools was £920 million, ELT £46m and further education £24m.

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It’s time to make English higher education institutions accessible: Disabled students’ representatives lead the way to change

HEPI

Choice not chance’ is the Office for Students’s intention in setting out its latest plans for promoting equality of opportunity for disadvantaged students in higher education. Disabled students also continue to endure discrimination and worse experiences than other students in higher education.