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The health of higher education studies – cause for optimism?

SRHE

By Rachel Brooks How healthy is the area of higher education studies? Higher education research has also been critiqued for occupying a relatively marginal place within the wider discipline of educational research. NB Data are available from 2004, but no education grants are recorded for either 2004 or 2005.

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How to Develop a Higher Ed Value Proposition That Targets Adult Learners

MindMax

Looking to grow enrollments for your school’s adult education programs? In our conversations with higher education leaders, we’ve learned that an adult learner’s values and goals are much different from a college freshman’s , and a school’s more standard value proposition isn’t going to resonate with this audience.

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3 Key Themes at the CFES Brilliant Pathways Conference

MindMax

Leaders in education, business, government, and philanthropy (plus 100 students!) You might be wondering why someone like me, whose company focuses on higher education marketing and enrollment , would attend a K-12 conference. MindMax shares this focus on creating pathways , in the context of continuing education and higher ed.

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Funding should be made available for lifelong learning | Letters

The Guardian - Higher Education

Any review of British universities needs to address the particular crisis in adult education and lifelong learning. Reviewing Britain’s growth crisis in 2022, the Economist pointed out that in Britain “adult education has gone to seed”. Instead, the lifelong learning entitlement is based on loans and debt.

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Design strategy for continuing and professional education at the University of Texas at Dallas

EAB

Blogs Design strategy for continuing and professional education at the University of Texas at Dallas August 9, 2023 Lance K. Research from the United States Department of Education shows 1.2 UTD is one of two University of Texas System institutions without an existing continuing and professional education unit.

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Interest rate changes could challenge universities, student loans and post 16 and vocational education

SRHE

If there is another 0.25% increase in the base rate, as is widely anticipated, this will place government and university finances under further pressure over the next few years with significant negative implications for HE students, the UK Government’s education budget in general and the further education college budget in particular.

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Let’s rekindle the spirit of 1924: lifelong learning for all | Letters

The Guardian - Higher Education

John Holford reflects on the funding for adult education enabled by the first Labour government a century ago, and hopes for something similar today. Plus letters from Ian Barge, Jennifer Basannavar and Jenny Braithwaite Jonathan Michie is, as usual, spot-on in arguing for universities to provide adult education.