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It’s time to make English higher education institutions accessible: Disabled students’ representatives lead the way to change

HEPI

This blog was kindly contributed by Francesca Peruzzo, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham; Rille Raaper, Associate Professor, Durham University; and Mette Westander, Founding Director, Disabled Students UK. Disabled students also continue to endure discrimination and worse experiences than other students in higher education.

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Cardiff Metropolitan University becomes first UK higher education institution to pledge no investments in border violence

HEPI

Today, Cardiff Metropolitan University made a landmark announcement in support of migrants’ rights by approving a policy to never invest in companies complicit in violence against people migrating and seeking sanctuary. But the campaign also builds upon the leadership that UK universities have already been showing throughout the past decade.

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Iowa Wesleyan University announces closure

Inside Higher Ed

The governor’s office responded in a press statement that Reynolds “made the difficult decision to not pursue the university’s funding request” following an independent assessment of IWU’s finances that revealed “systemic financial issues” that would not be solved by a cash infusion.

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Leveraging Data and DEI Initiatives

PeopleAdmin

Data and analytics are more important than ever to colleges and universities today. In today’s rapidly evolving higher education landscape, institutions are embracing data-driven strategies to further their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts.

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Lessons from learning analytics

SRHE

Indeed, a quick dip into some of the recent TEF feedback summaries to higher education institutions seems to suggest that use of learning analytics is valued by TEF panels. Dr Rob Summers is research manager at the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes (TASO).

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To end the strikes standoff, it falls to government

HEPI

Universities and unions are in a standoff, and the scenes demonstrate how emotionally charged and bitter the dispute has become. The problem of collective bargaining A popular trend is to blame universities for their failure to negotiate. In theory, collective bargaining can be in the interests of both universities and unions.

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Editorial: The End of the Year Show

SRHE

At the time of writing there seems little prospect of rapprochement between the employers and the Universities and Colleges Union. Those who took GCSEs in 2018 are the most-assessed school cohort ever, after repeated government policy changes affecting their primary as well as secondary education.