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Higher Education Will Take Center Stage in 2024 Presidential Election

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

veers into another major election year, some higher education scholars predict that issues related to the ivory tower will inevitably take center stage. Department of Education have sought alternative avenues to bring about debt relief. There’s a sizable contingent of young progressives that want universal loan cancellation.”

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SRHE Digital University: what’s on in 2023

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by Janja Komljenovic, Katy Jordan, and Jeremy Knox ( SRHE DU Network Co-Convenors) From 2023, the Digital University (DU) network is launching a new strategy to connect its members, collaborators, and friends. We hope this new way of working will motivate and stimulate debates around everything digital in higher education.

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Higher education as a politicians’ playground

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by Rob Cuthbert Higher education has always been something of a playground for junior politicians; HE ministers usually serve only short terms, and many are practising for bigger jobs. In 2024 fifty or more universities have declared or are likely to declare redundancies , as their funding position becomes ever more perilous.

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What Are the Big Higher Education Stories for 2024?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Access, affordability, and free speech will continue to make headlines in higher education. Efforts by the Biden administration to pass a rule on student loan forgiveness was a major story from 2023 that will again be front and center in the new year. Complex issues Dr. Valerie Kinloch, president of Johnson C. Dr. Fred A.

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Higher education in London

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I jumped at the chance to speak to London Higher in part because I am an alumnus of our host institution, having studied here at the end of the last century when Queen Mary University of London / QMUL was known as QMWC or Queen Mary and Westfield College. I am also lucky to be an Honorary Fellow of this institution.

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The lie of the land in higher education policy as the 2022/23 academic year draws to a close – By Nick Hillman

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This blog is an extract from a speech that the Director of HEPI, Nick Hillman, recently made to the Board of Sheffield Hallam University. I started my remarks then by noting the level of flux in higher education policy. We were on our third Universities Minister in three years, which seemed a lot at the time.

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Narratives at SRHE 2023 – more than just mere rhetoric

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by Adam Matthews It’s January 2024 and I am sitting down to write up my reflections on the SRHE Conference 2023. What has this got to do with an academic conference on higher education? My own work is concerned with discourse and narratives on the idea and purpose of a university and its role in society.