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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. Today, she is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.

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Aus scholarships and partnerships in India

The PIE News

A new scholarship program for talented young Indian researchers, four university partnerships and an India-Australia education plan have all been unveiled as high-profile leaders met in India this week. Four new partnerships have been signed – two with Deakin and two with Monash University.

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Germany: international first-years fill demographic decline

The PIE News

German universities can expect international first-year students to offset stagnating or even further declining numbers of first semester German students by 2026, new analysis has suggested. The development of total first-year students at German universities since the 2011/12 peak.

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Shifts, shocks, fragility: are English universities on a sustainable course? By John Raftery

HEPI

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by John Raftery, Principal of John Raftery and Associates and former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Wolverhampton and London Metropolitan University. English universities are, by many measures, consistently among the very best in the world, outperforming most if not all other competitors.

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New funding models explored as UK HEIs “running out of road”

The PIE News

Stakeholders in UK higher education are exploring a range of potential funding models for undergraduate education, against a backdrop of financial sustainability concerns, course cuts and redundancies for higher education institutions. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain. .

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A People's History of Higher Education in the US?

Higher Education Inquirer

A People's History of US Higher Education is sorely needed, not as a purely academic work to gather dust on shelves, or as internet click bait, but as a way to assess how our nation moves forward as a democracy--or as something less. In 2026 we expect an enrollment cliff to occur, a ripple effect of the 2008 Great Recession.

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General election 2024: Higher education fees and funding

HEPI

So ‘free’ higher education has lasted in Scotland, even if its relative success rests on the Barnett formula, which enables more public spending per head than in England, and may come at the cost of other public services. Imagine a major university in a marginal constituency going bust in the run up to the election.