article thumbnail

Germany: international first-years fill demographic decline

The PIE News

The CHE Center for University Development found that preliminary figures from the Federal Statistical Office say 402,617 students enrolled at German universities for the first time in the 2023/24 winter semester, down from a peak of 445,000 in 2011/12. The development of total first-year students at German universities since the 2011/12 peak.

Model 89
article thumbnail

Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Janelle Scott, a professor in the School of Education and African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. and Mary Catherine Birgeneau Distinguished Chair in Educational Disparities, and is the chair of the Race, Diversity, and Educational Policy Cluster of the Othering and Belonging Institute.

university leaders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

5 Hip-Hop Quotes to Inspire College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

2. Wale (“Ambition”, 2011) “Move with aggression, use my mind as a weapon. Na’eem Allen-Stills is an incoming doctoral student in the University of Maryland’s Higher Education, Student Affairs and International Education Policy program. His research revolves around Black mentorship.

College 111
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Mapping Transfer Pathways: How Data and Equitable Admissions Policies can Support Transfer Student Success

IHEP

The Institute for Higher Education Policy. The most important door that will ever open: Realizing the mission of higher education through equitable admission policies. The Institute for Higher Education Policy. Race and ethnicity in higher education: A status report. American Council on Education.

Policy 52
article thumbnail

A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“My whole goal and purpose is to figure out how we have a conference-wide conversation about race,” he says, adding that at the end of the conversation, he wants the nearly 15,000 expected attendees to reimagine what education policy and practice might look like when racial equity is prioritized.

Schooling 107
article thumbnail

Deprivation data: Introducing a new UK-wide area-based measure

SRHE

To do so, we relied upon the 2011 Census, given the questions asked across the nations are harmonised as far as possible, meaning a UK-wide metric can be created.