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The Tories have sucked the joy from the education system. Here are three ways Labour can bring it back | Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - Higher Education

Keir Starmer should revitalise Sure Start, focus on children’s happiness – and give a crucial boost to further education Our writers and experts name the pledges Labour must include in its manifesto Children became unhappier in the past decade, according to the annual Good Childhood report. Nothing else. Continue reading.

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This startup trailblazer believes these 5 trends will shape the future of education

University Business

Education leaders ready to leap into the next generation of education that fully embraces digital modalities aren’t waiting around for our current institutions to get it together. “An education system built for the Industrial Revolution is not going to get it done and has frankly outstayed its welcome.”

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Educational gag orders are a student rights issue (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

There is a strategy in play, attempts throughout the United States, to ban books and subject matter in schools, what PEN America has called a “legislative war on education.” While most target K-12 education, an increasing number concern colleges and universities. Youngkin signed Senate Bill 656 into law in April.

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New book argues education shouldn't be the key to a job

Inside Higher Ed

Q: You call your book “the political history of an idea.” ” What is that idea and why do we need to know its political history? A: The idea really, is how Americans think about education—what we want it to do. Excerpts of the conversation follow, edited for length and clarity.

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Hamline reviews policies that set off academic freedom dispute

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Hamline University has been engrossed in an academic freedom debate this year over the actions of an adjunct instructor at the private Minnesota institution who was teaching global art history. The instructor had warned students in advance of her plan to show the image. This is one of those times. Another Statement.

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Does College Need to Be 4 Years?

Inside Higher Ed

Wyatt, the executive director of online education in the Utah System of Higher Education, and Allen C. ” Mastery of such vocational fields as physical therapy, accounting, marketing, hospitality management and culinary arts ought not “require a uniform four-year program,” the authors claim.

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Wonders of the Invisible World

Inside Higher Ed

A recent article identified some of those processes: climate change, deglobalization, demographic decline, and digital technologies, to which I’d add, challenges to liberal capitalism, liberal democracy, liberal internationalism, and even liberal education. They are cultural, demographic, economic, historical, and sociological.

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