HEPI

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Formed between 1969 and 1973, England’s polytechnics offered higher education courses in vocational areas. Created through mergers of colleges of technology, art, commerce and other specialist institutions, they offered full-time, sandwich and part-time courses. The effect of policy drift.

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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.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A coalition of higher ed organizations is launching a campaign, called California Reconnect, to re-enroll adult learners who stopped out of college in the state. California Reconnect will be modeled on an approach by ProjectAttain!,

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The PIE News

APRIL 28, 2023

A number of institutions saw higher levels of income from non-EU students than domestic UK students, the new statistics showed. Of the £712m University College London raised in tuition fees, £501m came from non-EU international students.

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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.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. Half are nonwhite, and most (60 percent) are the first in their families to attend college. “I really hope that I am not the one to serve them all.

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The PIE News

APRIL 25, 2023

The current model of international education for India needs to change… The one-way traffic needs to change,” he said. India has the opportunity “leapfrog” from its overwhelmed higher education system to one that centres around digital, he suggested. Billions of dollars are being pumped out of the country.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

college or university say their barriers have been to finishing their education over three years. Courtney Brown of the Lumina Foundation Higher ed leaders can learn what 6,000 current students, 3,000 people who stopped out, and 3,000 more who never enrolled in a U.S. Courtney, welcome to the program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

The report also makes clear that banning race-conscious admissions will make it nearly impossible for colleges to match their current levels of diversity, let alone the diversity of graduating high school classes. In order to compensate for an adverse ruling, colleges will need to make drastic reforms of admissions policies, the report notes.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As a policy area, it has evolved to incorporate a wide range of both policy sectors and policy actors on the federal level: GAC; Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC); Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC); and Research and Innovation. Creating consensus among all those diverse actors is difficult.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Although 80% of students who enroll in community colleges plan on getting a bachelor’s degree, only around 15% do so within six years. IHEP’s briefings , released Tuesday, are designed to serve as a model for institutions and states looking to replicate the Institute’s TransferBOOST work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

The Ivy League, with some of the oldest institutions of higher education in the U.S., Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Columbia University named new presidents, each to take office in July. Robb Chair in the Social Sciences at Barnard College (women’s undergraduate college of Columbia University).

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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

MARCH 30, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer In 2021, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education reported that two out of three learners—we call them learners, not students, to dispel the image of the 18- to 22-year-old residential student—come to college with previous credit or prior learning.

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HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Alice Wilby , Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Access, Participation and Student Experience) at University College Birmingham. There are many FE colleges on the OfS register, with many more delivering HE through franchise arrangements and Institutes of Technology.

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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. International students create a net economic benefit to the UK of £37.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.” Morishita, interim president at CSULA.

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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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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since. This article looks back at the report and considers what the lessons might be for politicians, officials and higher education leaders contemplating a future review.

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SRHE

JANUARY 18, 2023

This year every university and college is putting on its own pantomime. Higher Education Cinderella has been condemned to a life of servitude, enforced by the ugly sisters DfE and the Office for Students (you can’t usually tell them apart). What’s showing near you? We offer these plot summaries to help you choose what to watch.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

According to Dr. Kyle Greenwalt, associate director of teacher preparation at MSU’s College of Education, the fifth year had become a roadblock. The change will take effect for students entering in fall 2023, although current first and second-year students are also eligible to transition to the new model.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book brings together 55 different authors – including academics, a vice-chancellor and numerous education policy experts (such as Sam Freedman, Lord Lucas, Jonathan Simons , Ann Mroz and Tom Richmond). Why do private school pupils so often fall behind in higher education?

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One of the biggest challenges students face is determining their return on investment for obtaining a college degree. In this podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with the person who generated and crunched these numbers, Michael Itzkowitz , president of the HEA Group and former director of the College Scorecard under President Obama.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Policy had become centralised although institutional autonomy was pledged to be preserved. It is palpably evident that centralisation under an Office for Students (established as primarily a Regulator but replacing the UGC and its successor body, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)) is running out of road.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

Peter Hitchens, A Revolution Betrayed: How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System – This book is not primarily about higher education but is rather about selective schooling, which is a major feeder for selective universities. And if the government won’t do it, universities should.’

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. All too often, however, the question of how to capture these data and use them to positively affect the institution remains.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

The Chronicle of Higher Education has even instituted a DEI Legislation Tracker to track anti-DEI higher education policies. Dr. Annice Fisher Given the “DEI backlash,” how have schools and colleges of education maintained their long-standing DEI commitments? Below we offer six lessons learned.

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HEPI

MARCH 17, 2024

In higher education, the birthplace of artificial intelligence in all its forms stretching back many decades , universities and colleges have quickly devised policies and approaches for the use of generative AI tools by students for their studies, and in particular for producing assessed work.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 25, 2023

The trio is championing the initiative as one that provides open, low-cost, flexible access to higher education. A higher education cocktail that mixes a university known for innovation , an experienced provider of compelling educational multimedia content and a behemoth online video-sharing website holds promise.

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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). Adams & K.A.

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HEPI

JANUARY 31, 2024

The logic of fees Whether we like it or not, there is one higher education issue that tends to bestride all the others at general elections, and that is tuition fees. Moreover, higher education finance is a devolved matter. The SNP have been re-elected more than once since, each time promising to keep the policy in place.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For this reason, colleges often identify program experiences that align with their values and target specific student populations. Schumann wrote in her capacity as chair of the system’s University Committee on Research Policy to Cochran during the deliberation.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. She focused largely on access to higher education, noting the well-known findings within political science that tie increased political engagement – voting, volunteering, even running for office – with increased formal education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A shift in control of either or both houses of Congress would mean changes for national education policy. Over the last few years there have been a lot of public-private partnerships in really recognizing and integrating diversity as part of the higher education DNA,” said Wong.

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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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