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

The PIE News

Last year, Dutch minister for Education, Culture and Science, Robbert Dijkgraaf, told The PIE in an exclusive interview that the country was searching for an “optimal” number of international students, while he praised the role of student and researcher international exchanges. Suggestions made so far are wide ranging.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

How might this precept apply to higher education? As the historian Henry Steele Commager observed six decades ago, American higher education is an amalgam of four distinct educational traditions. ” Yet we can’t do better if we fail to reflect on the past and extract its messages and warnings.

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Netherlands uni chairs call for stop to curbing int’l students

The PIE News

“In doing so, [parliament] turns a blind eye to the fact that the shortage on the labour market – think of technology, ICT, education and care – is already causing major problems for us,” the opinion piece, signed by representatives from Breda University of Applied Sciences , Tilburg University and others, reads. “In

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UPenn’s ‘Eidos’ Project Tackles LGBTQ+ Health Inequity, Discrimination

Insight Into Diversity

To solve this, Eidos works to connect stakeholders across all areas of health care delivery, from inside and outside higher education. Leaders at Eidos have also assisted Julia Votto, a graduate student in UPenn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, with a thesis project aimed at finding solutions to LGBTQ+ health disparities.

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Responsibilities and gatekeeping in using language certificates for HE admission

SRHE

by Jana Berg, Michael Grüttner, Stefanie Schröder With the exception of a few master’s degree programs, the German higher education system is dominated by monolingual organizations. Therefore, language certificates are a key element of access to German higher education for international students.

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A “pathway to Finland” – the boost needed for its 2030 goal?

The PIE News

In its fifth iteration, Spring 2023, it’s hosted 279 students. The program sees students have extra lessons in English, as well as course specific tracks in business, engineering & technology and nursing. “As It’s had four cycles online since the beginning of 2021.

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Work Zones Ahead!

Inside Higher Ed

Within community colleges, some programs of study are loosely defined, especially in the humanities, or were never designed to lead to transfer, as in the case of applied associate degrees. Examples of associate degrees included are manufacturing engineering technology, hospitality management, cardiac sonography and cybersecurity.