Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Now, new research—one of the largest educational studies ever performed—has revealed both the power and the limits of these programs: direct admissions led to more students applying to college, but it did not mean that more of them would actually enroll. Direct admissions is focused on eliminating those barriers,” said Odle. “We

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SRHE

AUGUST 21, 2023

by Katherine Emms The 2017 Higher Education and Research Act (HERA) enabled new and innovative HE providers to enter and establish themselves, with the aim of diversifying the HE sector. Katherine Emms is a Senior Education and Policy Researcher at the Edge Foundation.

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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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University Business

APRIL 9, 2024

There is nothing novel about the current approaches to improving access, quality and equity in higher education. Traditional education systems that are characterized by limited options and closed progression routes are being reevaluated through initiatives like UNESCO’s “ Beyond Limits: New Ways to Reinvent Higher Education.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

” For-profit institutions are required to bring in 10 percent of their revenue from nonfederal sources—a market viability test stemming from the 1992 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965. service members and veterans,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

How to Enable the Employability of University Graduates , edited by Saskia Loer Hansen and Kathy Daniels, presents a compilation of best practices for enabling employability within higher education (HE). For this university, the creation of the curriculum involved insights from businesses, education, and stakeholders.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

For example, take the pace at which the English population can acquire higher education and skills. Many of the UK’s competitors have systems of higher education where the time taken to achieve a Bachelor’s level is much slower, which itself is a problem for them. The power of the student voice has been amplified.

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

This institution’s position here in London was core to why my student experience was so good, as we got to benefit from studying amidst all the cultural, political and educational institutions situated in the capital. It was led by Peter Hennessy, who is even more famous now – as Lord Hennessy – than he was in the past.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

These students are already faced with many disadvantages. According to The Brookings Institution , a nonprofit public policy organization, first generation college students tend to come from lower-income families and complete school at a lower rate than their peers. Dr. Douglas N.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Students studying in the summer may be more likely to remain engaged with their education and can progress to a degree more quickly. Summer Pell seems to offer particular help to disadvantaged groups. They may also avoid summer learning loss.

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HEPI

APRIL 5, 2023

I know higher education policy can be slow but the school pupils applying to higher education when the Augar report came out graduated last summer. That’s how snail-like higher education policy has been in recent years, thanks to all the political turmoil.) The stretch on resources. The stretch on resources.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The event was introduced by the chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Adult Education, Margaret Greenwood MP, who said that a gender pay gap and class ceiling in many sectors for disadvantaged women had been exacerbated by Covid, its aftermath and cost-of-living crisis – and this event was timely.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The speaker of these words was the then Minister for Higher and Further Education, Michelle Donelan and the sentiment underpins many of the current mechanisms used for assessing quality in English HE. A key consequence of this shift has been a reimagining of the relationship between the student and the institution.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: Amid faltering enrollment rates and increased national scrutiny of the price and worth of a college education, Colorado is weighing a new formula to measure the “economic value” of degree programs offered by the state’s public institutions of higher education.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

There were a lot of warm words expressed about both HEPI and Wonkhe at last week’s Society for Research into Higher Education ( SRHE ) event on bridging academia and policymaking. It was clear from the various senior speakers present that both organisations have filled a gap in providing accessible policy-focused information.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

by Rob Cuthbert The leader’s speech to Conference was expected to include far-reaching proposals for higher and further education. At the next level, what we used to call further and higher education will be swept away to create a new Higher Skills curriculum. Just the best education system in the Western world.

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HEPI

JULY 31, 2023

In the spring of 2002 I approached Sir Howard Newby, recently appointed Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), where I had been Policy Director for more than 10 years, with the proposition that HEFCE might support me in establishing a think tank devoted to higher education policy analysis.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And what is the role of higher education institutions in providing spaces that prepare young adults to vote and otherwise engage in civic life? In a recently published article in the journal Educational Policy , J. What is sparking this engagement?

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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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HEPI

JULY 28, 2023

The speech looks at the state of higher education in summer 2023 and ahead to the next general election, due in 2024 (or, less likely, 2025). First, despite working in higher education policy for well over 15 years and despite having visited nearly every UK university, I have never visited the University of Wolverhampton before.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Further, they say, the new residency requirement may limit educational equity and access, particularly to qualified students in need of flexible learning options. ” Cocco, who also serves as chair of the university committee on educational policy, agreed.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: As recently as 2015, the University of Phoenix enrolled more than 400,000 learners, making it not only the center of the for-profit higher education universe but the biggest university in the United States by far. Phoenix wasn’t just synonymous with for-profit higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Access, affordability, and free speech will continue to make headlines in higher education. Dr. Robert Kelchen, professor and head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, says the administration will likely reintroduce the rule in 2024 using a negotiated rulemaking process.

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