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Netherlands: call for higher education funding rethink in ongoing international debate

The PIE News

However, UNL president, Pieter Duisenberg, called on government to introduce a funding system that is “less dependent on student numbers and market share” “The minister is currently exploring the future of education and science in the Netherlands (through the Toekomstverkenning onderwijs en wetenschap). Read it here.

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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An AERA fellow, she was elected to AERA’s Executive Board and Council from 2018 to 2021, has been liaison to AERA’s Graduate Student Council and International Relations Committee, and co-edited Review of Research in Education, an AERA peer-reviewed journal.

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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

Faculty Focus

The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is an HBCU and the only public institution of higher education in the Nation’s capital. VR-facilitated learning can offer students the opportunity to engage across the four phases of experiential learning, improving educational and clinical outcomes. 2018; Zhao et al.,

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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history.

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Key Facts and Figures about the Graduate Technical workforce

HEPI

HEPI is running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. Recent data from the 2017/18 and 2018/19 academic years indicate that 4.8 per cent of all employed graduates who lived in the UK before enrolling in higher education held technical jobs. .

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Higher Education in Ireland

HESA

I’m Alex Usher and this is The World of Higher Education podcast. In higher education, where scale matters a lot, small size puts a crimp in what you can do. This was also true with respect to higher education. AU: Let’s start out by explaining the Irish higher education system to everybody.

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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

Faculty Focus

The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is an HBCU and the only public institution of higher education in the Nation’s capital. VR-facilitated learning can offer students the opportunity to engage across the four phases of experiential learning, improving educational and clinical outcomes. 2018; Zhao et al.,