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What role will higher education play in the next general election?

HEPI

As for Labour, their Education pledges look set to focus on early years provision (again, perhaps framed as a productivity issue), and promises on training nurses and doctors. The party’s higher education policies, however, seem to be still forming – and along familiar lines. appeared first on HEPI.

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

His father was a doctor who worked at the local hospital, but it was bombed in 2015. She both struggled to pay her loans and felt limited in her ability to advance her career without further education. Breaking ‘Rules’ Akram (not his real name) grew up in Aleppo, Syria, Reshef said, recounting a story of a UoPeople student.