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Stand Alone: 2015 – 2024: 10 years of changing higher education for estranged students

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Stand Alone has announced its closure and its higher education work is coming to an end. Will the sector continue to advocate for estranged students and drive policy change? Quickly Stand Alone understood that ‘estrangement’ was unrecognised as a barrier to higher education. And they called on Stand Alone to help.

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Is India the world’s next top knowledge power?

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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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Decolonizing Higher Education Syllabi: Beyond the Aesthetics of the Syllabus

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

jules While the raison d’etre of the syllabi has gone unchanged, aspects of society have evolved, and we find ourselves in the middle of a racial awakening since 2013 and the rise of the global Black Lives Matter Movement. Within this context, we need to think/rethink about the purpose of the syllabus and how we can decolonize it.

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Black Students Less Likely Identified for Special Ed When They Have Black Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Black students in elementary school, particularly Black boys, are less likely to be identified for special education when their teachers are also Black, according to a new report published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). school system to diversify its educator workforce more, Hart said. “I

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The SRHE Digital University Network: A Decade of Trends and Future Directions

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by Katy Jordan, Janja Komljenovic and Jeremy Knox The SRHE Digital University Network was launched in 2012, with a view to present “ critical, theorised and research-based perspectives on technologies in higher education ”. Looking back From 2013 onwards, the Digital University had been included in the annual SRHE conference themes.

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Black and Hispanic Students Far Less Likely to Receive Race-Matched Instruction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From a sample of over 560,000 first year, first time community college students and over 32,000 instructors in Texas between 2013 and 2020, researchers found that 77% of white students experienced a racial match. Griffin, the dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. Dr. Kimberly A.

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The Robbins Review – Lessons for the Future by Professor Huw Morris

HEPI

This new piece was kindly authored for HEPI by Huw Morris, who is an Honorary Professor of Tertiary Education at the Institute of Education, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, and who is currently on secondment from the Welsh Government. The Robbins Review report was published 60 years ago this October.