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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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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.

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The agreements raised questions, as the Times put it, “about whether promoting gambling on campus—especially to people who are at an age when they are vulnerable to developing gambling disorders—fits the mission of higher education.” The university is a city-state and an educational institution.

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Oberlin's board seeks to limit faculty power

Inside Higher Ed

Oberlin said in 2013 that it planned to raise median faculty pay to that of peer institutions, but as of 2021 faculty pay at Oberlin ranked 15th among a group of 16 other peer institutions, according to a faculty analysis. It’s hard to say, but I’m sure it will change over time, and it will change the nature of the institution.”

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

SRHE News is now 50 issues old, covering a momentous 12 years for higher education worldwide, but especially in the UK, and even more especially in England – an opportunity to reflect on what we thought and how we felt as it happened, and whether things seem different now. No 4 The English experiment ).

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REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

SRHE

A coincidence of timing led to a disturbing voice in my head as I read the reports from Main Panel C, covering Social Sciences, and the Education panel. The brief description of the moderation process in Education suggests that this may have been repeated. Education. Procedural propriety. UHI submitted 110%, but that was only 7.3