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Labour’s education policy is brave, but can they fund it?

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This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Sir Chris Husbands, Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University. They should think about the next frontier. All these are serious issues. Politicians should think big. They should focus government on difficult issues.

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Solidarity with the Suffering

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma In his autobiography, Mark Twain describes how he received word, out of the blue, that his favorite daughter had died. I have written in the past about pain, tragedy, and individual and collective acts of evil. John Updike wrote about the futile attempts to “halt the flow of time.”

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The Murky Complexities of Cultural Appropriation

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A recent article in The New York Times , “Does the Meaning of a Song Change Depending on Who Wrote It?,” How about K-Pop? What about Hailey Bieber , who has been “called out for appropriating a makeup technique favored by Latinas and Black and brown women since the ’90s.”

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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Why Liberal Education Matters

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Start spreading the news. Rooted in class ideology, "the traditional doctrine of liberal arts cannot be understood,” he asserted in Nietzsche-like language, “except in connection with the social fact of division between free men and slaves and serfs.” ” Wait a second. Of course not.

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The Courage to Piece Back the Broken Paradox in Higher Education: Our Inner Work Can Change the Outer World 

Faculty Focus

This type of curriculum can promote a tick-box culture which has little buy-in from faculty, staff, and students to actually bring about substantive changes. For Palmer, when you begin to work on your inner life, you become aware of a “tragic gap” between your integrity and the way your university operates. What makes a Rosa Parks?…What

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The Courage to Piece Back the Broken Paradox in Higher Education: Our Inner Work Can Change the Outer World 

Faculty Focus

This type of curriculum can promote a tick-box culture which has little buy-in from faculty, staff, and students to actually bring about substantive changes. For Palmer, when you begin to work on your inner life, you become aware of a “tragic gap” between your integrity and the way your university operates. What makes a Rosa Parks?…What