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Higher education after #MeToo: what’s changed in institutional responses to gender-based violence and harassment?

HEPI

It demonstrates some of the positive impacts of changes that have happened some UK higher education institutions since the Changing the Culture report from Universities UK in 2016 and the #MeToo movement in 2017. The study focused specifically on reporting and disciplinary processes.

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

HEPI

Stand Alone has announced its closure and its higher education work is coming to an end. Quickly Stand Alone understood that ‘estrangement’ was unrecognised as a barrier to higher education. For Stand Alone the first step was to engage higher education institutions. And they called on Stand Alone to help.

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Yemen: the globe’s forgotten higher education crisis?

The PIE News

While diplomatic efforts continue to bring an end fighting between Saudi Arabia and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the country, The PIE wanted to identify ways in which the international education sector can assist and change the lives of those in the country for the better. A quarter of scholars in 2022 were from Yemen.

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Colorado expands inclusive higher education programs for students with intellectual disabilities

University Business

Seven years ago, Colorado was one of only three states that didn’t have an inclusive higher education program. Today it has four programs thanks to IN Pathways to Inclusive Higher Education. Read more from CBS News.

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My 2024 Higher Education Finance Reading List (Robert Kelchen)

Higher Education Inquirer

[Editor's note: This article first appeared at the Kelchen on Education blog.] This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. The higher education finance landscape and data sources Chetty, R., Friedman, J.

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Strategies for Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Higher Education 

Faculty Focus

While statistics show that the 2015-2016 academic year ushered in an increasing number of students with disabilities in higher education, countless students do not inform their university about their disability. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). 2020, April 26). ??A

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Does the multiplication of alternative providers call for a new review of higher education?

HEPI

The proposals of the Robbins Report on Higher Education considered the role of providers of tertiary education. It concluded that to ‘confer degree-giving powers on all the existing’ Further Education Colleges ‘would be inappropriate because of the number involved, the variation in their sizes and the diversity of standards’.