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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Fundamentally, I want my scholarship to matter to people's lives and to do that, it's really helpful if I don't lose sight of how people are living.” However, her strategy is simple ; she starts with culture. Culture is this place where we try to make sense of a really complex world in our own little local context,” says McMillan Cottom.

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OEE Scholar Interview Series: Dr. Sharla Berry

ACPA

We’re excited to highlight the scholarship of Dr. Sharla Berry , Assistant Professor in the Center for Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness (CEEE) at California State University, Long Beach. I found more support in communications and sociology, but I was in an Education Policy Ph.D. Online Learning , 21 (2), n2.

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The health of higher education studies – cause for optimism?

SRHE

A similar increase was evident in relation to the impact case studies submitted for both exercises, with the number of higher education-focussed impact case studies increasing from 15 per cent of all those submitted to the Education unit of assessment in REF2014 to 21 per cent in REF2021 (see Table 2).

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 aimed to enshrine the market with students as customers, and established the Office for Students. The HEFCE-commissioned evaluation tells us only that it was not very ‘useful’ in the terms defined by the current policy framework. No 46 English higher education policy: hope and pay ).

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UK playing catch up with US for top spot in soft power rankings

The PIE News

The UK is closing its gap with the US in the latest Soft-Power Index, with the latter retaining top spot having educated 65 world leaders. Since 2017, the last year when the UK boasted having the most serving world leaders as alumni of any country in the world, the US has extended its lead every year after overtaking the UK in 2018.