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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.

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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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Parnell Named President of NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Parnell has been with the organization since 2015 and will bring deep industry and organizational knowledge to her new role. She directed the association’s research, policy, and publications portfolio that provide critical insight and support to the nearly 15,000 student affairs professionals who comprise NASPA’s membership.

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Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Starts with Culture First, Then Asks Questions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Tressie McMillan Cottom McMillan Cottom is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill and a senior principal researcher at UNC’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. She is also a columnist for the New York Times, an award-winning author, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow.

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

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Post-EU Referendum turmoil in the UK (and the EU) continues, for all sorts of reasons, but soon more serious and sustained assessment of the post-Brexit landscape for UK universities will occur. In such a context here is the question to consider: is an Oxbridge-Lille (a joint Cambridge-Oxford university) or equivalent (e.g.,

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Here are 9 ways higher education can ensure rural America’s long-term vitality

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A comprehensive report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) illustrates the resilience of America’s blue-collar region and describes how increased collaboration with higher education can ensure its survival. Census Bureau data from 2015 to 2019. Rural towns in the U.S.

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Shifts, shocks, fragility: are English universities on a sustainable course? By John Raftery

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This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by John Raftery, Principal of John Raftery and Associates and former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Wolverhampton and London Metropolitan University. English universities are, by many measures, consistently among the very best in the world, outperforming most if not all other competitors.