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Security, assurance & a pathway to professional life – the UK’s Graduate Route

The PIE News

In 2016, I received a scholarship of £9,000 to pursue my undergraduate studies at Coventry University. While this scholarship eased some of the financial burden, it was clear that I would still need to secure additional funding to cover the remaining tuition fees. Fast forward to 2021, and I found myself facing a pivotal decision.

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Does research provide insights to many of the global challenges we’re facing? A publisher’s view

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Priya Madina, Director of External Affairs and Policy at Taylor & Francis. In June 2022, HEPI and Taylor & Francis hosted a successful dinner discussion around open access and evidence-based based policymaking which produced a co-authored Policy Note , and webinar.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6%

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Exploring British Muslim transitions to PGT studies

SRHE

We consider this a timely intervention, in the context of a rapidly changing student demography, indicated in the popular usage of such terms as ‘hyper-diversification’ (Atherton and Mazhari, 2020) within HE policy discourse, and corroborated in recent projections by the professional membership body, Advance HE.

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Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Dies at 67

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Blank’s economic work focused on low-income labor markets, macroeconomics, government policy, and the measurement of poverty. Whether in government or academia, she devoted her career to reducing inequality and increasing opportunities for others, and made everyone around her better." She held a Ph.D. Department of Commerce. "Dr.

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A Culturally Responsive Counselor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed.,

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An Invisible Population: Black Undocumented Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. Institutions, said Hall, need to ask themselves if their policies and practices are further silencing an already silenced population. college and university leaders connecting the dots between immigration policy and its impact on students.

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