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Bank Holiday Reading: Higher Education and the green workforce transformation

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The UK Government’s Green Jobs Taskforce highlights that it is essential for more young people to leave the education system with green skills in order to deliver on a green workforce transformation. The role that Higher Education institutions play in delivering the green skills needed to support the green workforce transformation.is

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AAMU’s STEM boon carves career paths for HBCU students

University Business

Jobs for the Future , a nonprofit focused on the American workforce and education systems, recently identified a skill and career gap among Black learners and job seekers. “Black Americans continue to have less systemic access to build and maintain professional social capital.” .

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President moves: Administrators prove popular picks as next leader on the job

University Business

His contract is still pending approval from the state’s higher education system. Bradley Creed Following a 30-year career in higher education and a decade-long stint as president of Campbell University, Bradley Creed is calling it a career. The former engineer proved a natural as president.

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The Catalysts for Competency-Based Learning and Prior Learning Assessments Have Arrived

eLiterate

Long-term economic forces will increasingly drive demand for more rapid reskilling than our current system can support. By neglecting these paths and leaving them to others, traditional higher education leaves itself vulnerable while failing to serve its mission to students and the public good. But situations change.

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Women in STEM: Perception Versus Reality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Academia and industry alike have long grappled with the lingering issue of gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and professions. but only 34% of the STEM workforce; they also earn only 24% of bachelor’s degrees in engineering, 24% in physics, and 21% in computer science.

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Training faculty to help students in mental distress

Inside Higher Ed

“Honestly, this happens so frequently now that my first reaction was, ‘You don’t need to disclose anything to me that will make you feel uncomfortable,’” said Mozafari, who teaches engineering communication at Cornell’s College of Engineering. ” Faculty Need Support, Too.

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Autonomy Scorecard

HESA

This week’s guest on The World of Higher Education podcast is Enora Bennetot Pruvot, Deputy Director Governance, Funding & Public Policy Development at the European University Association and she joins me today from Brussels to talk about the EUA’s recently-released University Autonomy Scorecard, of which she was a co-author.

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