Higher Ed Dive

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The news comes after the private university has faced lawsuits over some of the offerings, including a master’s degree in social work.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 11, 2024

Degrees Earned Fall Again, Certificates Rise Sara Weissman Thu, 04/11/2024 - 03:00 AM Fewer people are earning degrees for the second year in a row, but certificates are having a moment, according to a new report. Byline(s) Sara Weissman

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 12, 2024

Traction for the Three-Year Bachelor’s Degree Doug Lederman Fri, 04/12/2024 - 03:00 AM A group of college leaders strategize about how to design a new undergraduate experience—and get an unexpected boost from an accreditor. Byline(s) Doug Lederman

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MindMax

MARCH 18, 2024

More Americans are questioning the value of a 4-year degree. While his delivery was crass and inflammatory, I can look back now and admit that he had a point—at least within the context of traditional education and the 4-year degree. Over time, several factors have contributed to my new perspective on the value of a 4-year degree: 1.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Many employers are dropping degree requirements to create a more diverse workforce and increase job candidate numbers, survey results show.

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Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Higher education minister Robert Halfon is an enthusiast for degree apprenticeships and universities stand ready to do more. Team Wonkhe assesses whether the incentives stack up The post Should universities go for growth on degree apprenticeships? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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The PIE News

APRIL 4, 2024

The European Commission has presented a blueprint for a European degree, set to boost learning mobility within the EU and “cut red tape” for universities setting up joint degree programs at all levels. The second possible entry point is a European degree. Our universities are beacons of the European way of life.

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Higher Ed Dive

MAY 11, 2023

Two of the state's higher ed systems are clashing over the right to offer students four-year degrees.

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Higher Ed Dive

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The employer is rewriting job descriptions to allow for either a relevant degree or the skills needed for the job.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 15, 2024

We’re rounding up some of our top recent stories, from a poll of adults without college diplomas to Clarkson’s transfer of 16 degrees to another institution.

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Wonkhe

JULY 5, 2023

UCAS Head of Policy Ben Jordan and UCAS Apprenticeship Programme Lead Lindsay Conroy introduce UCAS' new research into the lightbulb moments for would-be apprentices The post We can achieve parity between apprenticeships and traditional degrees appeared first on Wonkhe.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Degree apprenticeships. When it comes to degree apprenticeships, my colleagues and I have found that policy influencing involves a significant amount of myth-busting. So here are three reasons why higher and degree apprenticeships might deserve a first look, closer inspection, or further reflection.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 13, 2024

New research commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation focuses on how 18- to 30-year-olds without college diplomas view higher education.

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Higher Ed Dive

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Still, employers have said they view degrees as the less risky option — even while acknowledging they can be a poor indicator of an applicant’s skills.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Although the company has seen revenue dip for degree programs, officials believe they will pick back up in 2023 as they fill classes for new offerings.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 6, 2023

State movement on the issue reflects ongoing private sector interest in reducing reliance on four-year degrees for hiring purposes.

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Higher Ed Dive

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Students snub accounting for reasons ranging from its comparatively low pay to tough requirements for certification, according to financial executives.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

Despite questions around the value of an English degree, graduates who earned one were found to possess similar rates of life satisfaction, peak salary earnings and unemployment rates to non-English degree graduates, according to a recent report by the Association of Departments of English (ADE), a subsidiary of the Modern Language Association.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 25, 2024

Davenport U Launches Bilingual Degree Program for Latino Students Sara Weissman Mon, 03/25/2024 - 03:00 AM The private university in Michigan is producing online degree programs with courses that alternate between English and Spanish each week. Byline(s) Sara Weissman

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Earning a college degree is still a sound investment, although the rate of economic return varies across college majors and student demographics, according to a new American Educational Research Association (AERA) analysis of 5.8 million individuals with college degrees and 2.9 million individuals with college degrees and 2.9

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University Business

APRIL 11, 2024

The rate of bachelor’s degree earners fell to 2015-16 levels and associate degree earnings are a decade-low, according to a recent report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The rate of students with an associate degree earning a bachelor’s fell 3.3%, or about 14,000 students.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Bachelor's degrees offer solid payoffs, while grad programs post mixed returns, researchers find. But many students don't go on to work in the field.

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Wonkhe

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The post Why do students have to suffer when taking on a medical degree? As a debate about medical school places continues, Charlie Sellar urges a focus on the social make-up of those medical trainees. appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2024

Six new bachelor’s degrees programs have been approved at campuses within the California Community Colleges system, according to a news release from the system’s chancellor’s office. The system now offers, or will soon offer, 39 bachelor’s degree programs in total.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lumina's newest report found record breaking improvements to degree attainment, but Black and Hispanic adults still lag behind the national average.

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Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Today’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag marks a milestone in the long journey to more equal higher education The post Higher Education Postcard – degrees for women appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 16, 2024

Only about one-third of Philadelphians 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree, U.S. Census Bureau data shows.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The University of Minnesota Morris is excited to share with potential students that they could potentially save $20,000 on tuition costs for a bachelor’s degree, which may appease a public and federal government pushing for a more affordable higher education. Everything from English to political science and biology qualifies.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

University of California Lifts Ban on Online Degree Programs Lauren.Coffey@… Tue, 02/27/2024 - 03:00 AM Even as the debate on online courses continues, the UC move is creating concern about shared governance between faculty and university leaders. Byline(s) Lauren Coffey

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Though confidence about the value of pursuing a two- or four-year college degree is higher among high schoolers than graduates who either dropped out or chose not to attend in the first place, neither demographic view such pursuits as the most valuable, according to a recent report from Edge Research, HCM Strategists, and D2 Strategies.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

BYU-Idaho and Ensign College will launch truncated bachelor’s degree programs next spring after getting the go-ahead from the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2024

But measures introduced by the former Morrison government that doubled the price of some degrees to incentivise students into other courses didn’t dissuade him, nor did recent cost-of-living increases.

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Higher Ed Dive

APRIL 20, 2023

The plan aims to allow those without college degrees to attain high-paying jobs.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

In order to overcome the shortage of medical practitioners, Rishi Sunak has announced support for moving from standard five or six-year medical degrees to a compressed four-year degree programme. The Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) ruled that degrees were three years, not two.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Members of staff in the modern languages department at the University of Aberdeen – and beyond – are campaigning against proposals to cut language and culture degree programs at the university. Instead, the university could shift in focus to language teaching only, as a limited add-on to other degree programs, The PIE learned.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2024

Fewer people are earning degrees for the second year in a row, but certificates are having a moment, according to a new report. The latest “Undergraduate Degree Earners” report, released Thursday, showed that almost 100,000 fewer people earned bachelor’s and associate degrees or certificates during the 2022–23 academic year, a 2.8

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2024

West Virginia State University has announced it is launching its first doctorate degree program this May. Cage The Doctorate of Education in Leadership Studies would be the first doctoral degree conferred at the historically Black university. Today, we can proudly say that we are now a doctoral degree granting, land-grant university.

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