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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I then thought, because I was very good in math and science, perhaps I could become an engineer and design an airplane for others to pilot,” said Lim, who joined the NJIT in July 2022 as its ninth president and a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering. That began my pathway forward and my love of engineering.”

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Responsibilities and gatekeeping in using language certificates for HE admission

SRHE

We illustrate this with qualitative interview material from one case that emphasised the perceived lack of reliable documentation of skills by standardised language certificates. He emphasised: “I don’t really care about documents, the skills have to back them up”. And is now studying electrical engineering.”

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

GlobalHigherEd

Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) – Written evidence (12 January 2016). As noted in many of these documents, the indirect impacts of human mobility to the UK, and EU research support, are plentiful too. University Alliance – Written evidence (4 December 2015).