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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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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.

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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. Indeed, there is mounting evidence that higher education research is an increasingly vibrant area of enquiry.

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Study Finds that Promise Program Still Leaves Racial Gaps

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The research, published in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education , focused on participants in the first such program, the Kalamazoo Promise. According to Dr. Natasha Warikoo, the Lenore Stern professor in the humanities and social sciences at Tufts University, the findings are important, but not surprising. “It

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself. Clover, D.

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‘Universities must engage in lifelong learning’ – UNESCO

The PIE News

David Atchoarena, director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning , called on universities to engage with continuing and adult education at the first Global Lifelong Learning Summit held in Singapore in November. . “As And so all that we rely on is principally human resource.”. What is lifelong learning?

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In the search for jobs, should disadvantaged students behave more like middle-class students … or should the labour market change?

HEPI

Plato around a seminar table this ain’t Wildavsky usefully nails the idea that higher education is contrary to skills-based learning, noting that even the ‘land-grant institutions’ founded in the US over a century ago provide practical experience. The fact it is meshed together has just made it confusing, messy and unhelpful.’ Many (most?)