Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

Rodriguez, assistant secretary for planning, evaluation, and policy development at the U.S. Department of Education delivered the keynote address at Hope 2023 in New Orleans. The summer before my first semester was different than most incoming college freshmen,” she said. “The

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

Stakeholders in UK higher education are exploring a range of potential funding models for undergraduate education, against a backdrop of financial sustainability concerns, course cuts and redundancies for higher education institutions. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

As HEPI has itself found out in the past , it is generally a thankless task to write about the educational underachievement of boys but it is an important issue nonetheless. HEPI’s review by Rob Cuthbert concluded: ‘ At present, the school examinations system has a fail grade. Maybe not a new Robbins report but something close.

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HESA

APRIL 20, 2023

I’m Alex Usher and this is The World of Higher Education podcast. In higher education, where scale matters a lot, small size puts a crimp in what you can do. This was also true with respect to higher education. But falling meant the higher education sector could learn from other countries’ success and mistakes.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Katherine Emms is a Senior Education & Policy Researcher at the Edge Foundation. The current shortage of high-skilled professionals has again placed vocational education centre stage. To remedy this, the Edge Foundation has created a repository of past policy reviews.

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2024

There is nothing novel about the current approaches to improving access, quality and equity in higher education. Yet, this developing flexibility is underdeveloped in many community colleges where technical and in-person training is staunchly preserved. This is a nuanced difference between learning from school and going to school.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has 20 years’ experience in education policy research. The Labour Party is ahead in the polls and has been since December 2021.

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GlobalHigherEd

JANUARY 14, 2018

Morshidi was the former Director-General of Higher Education Malaysia, and is now Director of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Facility (CTEF) based at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. Morshidi is also a Senior Research Fellow at the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN), Universiti Sains Malaysia.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Image: As recently as a decade ago, the concept of “value” rarely found its way into discussions about federal policy making about higher education. Inside Higher Ed : How appropriate is it for federal and state governments to judge colleges based on the value they provide? What if any risks might occur in doing so?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Image: Representative Virginia Foxx is planning to leverage the decline in public perception of higher education to usher in a new era of stronger accountability for the nation’s colleges and universities in her role as chairwoman of the House education committee.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan —though temporarily blocked by a federal court —is a logical starting place for addressing the nation’s crisis of college affordability. Consider the data: no state has a public higher education system with a student body that reflects its demographic profile.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This blog was contributed by Andrew Croydon, Director of Skills & Education Policy and Examinations at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI). A new government, but the same old debate. How many students should go to university, and what courses should they study when they’re there?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Image: The Florida Department of Education and the chancellor of the State University System of Florida gathered the leaders of nearly 40 state institutions in Tallahassee Dec. Inside Higher Ed contacted more than 20 colleges and universities seeking details about last week’s meeting.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

The criteria, which were expected to be finalized later this month following consultation, clarify the rules for international universities setting up Indian campuses, a shift first announced in the 2020 National Education Policy (NEP). “I could see a symbiotic relationship between foreign capital and Hindutva ideology.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Department of Education, higher education lobbyists and policy experts say. “Their priorities are going to be much more about building a record with an eye toward 2024,” said Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies for the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

by Kat Emms For two years Edge Foundation has been drawing together lessons from past education policies. The polytechnics were designated in the 1960s as new institutions formed from existing technical and other colleges within the English further education system, and with one in Wales.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Leadership in Higher Education In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis and his allies in the Florida legislature have launched a major effort to create a more conservative state higher education system. When conservatives look at our colleges and universities, what do they see?

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This new piece was kindly authored for HEPI by Huw Morris, who is an Honorary Professor of Tertiary Education at the Institute of Education, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, and who is currently on secondment from the Welsh Government. The Robbins Review report was published 60 years ago this October.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

While he hasn’t declared his candidacy yet, political observers say DeSantis is clearly seeking to energize the Republican base by throwing them red meat on pressing social issues—particularly education, at both the K-12 and postsecondary levels. Higher education has been central to that agenda.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

It was a fascinating session because it was the first time that a number of your senior managers had been in a room together, and yet Lancaster University – like higher education institutions more generally – had continued to thrive during the worst of the pandemic. Back to the future I hope you will let me begin with some history.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Examples noted by the researchers include stagnant productivity levels, large disparities in economic performance between areas and inequalities in our education system. Naturally, one of the questions being increasingly asked of the UK higher education sector is how it is helping to resolve some of the latter issues.

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HESA

MAY 26, 2023

If you’re in North America, you know that one of the perennial debates in higher education finance is about the efficacy of performance-based funding, or PBF, with the bulk of the academic evidence suggesting in one way or another that such schemes do not achieve their purported aims. So the distinction is in the mix.

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

Or might an equivalent of Cornell Tech NYC be worth creating in European higher education and research space? Hearing 2 – Higher Education and Research (A. International Higher Education in Facts and Figures 2016 (International Unit, Universities UK, 2 June 2016). , about one possible risk-reducing option. Adams & K.A.

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