HEPI

MAY 18, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Peter Ainsworth, the author of Setting Universities Free: How to deliver a sustainable student funding system (2022) Picture the 1930s economic slump, absent Keynes’s challenge to prevailing thought.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Over the last year, many consequential changes have been thrown at higher education – new legislation impacted DEI, artificial intelligence entered the classroom in a big way, and we’re still working through the residual effects of the pandemic. Our industry is indeed at an inflection point. But funding is only one piece of the puzzle.

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MindMax

DECEMBER 8, 2022

He made this bold statement in support of a broader point he presented in an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education : elite institutions “spend enormous resources to climb college rankings and compete for the most affluent, highest-scoring students.” Reimagining the Measure of Success in Higher Education.

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SRHE

MAY 1, 2024

ISBN 9781914487217 (paperback), 9781914487224 (ebook) Review by Rob Cuthbert If you do research in higher education, this book might make you angry – but probably not for the reasons the author hopes. Surely The Secret Lecturer could not fail to do for higher education what its predecessors had done for law and medicine?

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JUNE 18, 2023

Despite decades of government effort, the link between socioeconomic advantage and university wealth has persisted Australia now has an opportunity to broaden access to university for disadvantaged groups in society. But, as we work towards an Australian universities accord at the end of this year, we face formidable obstacles.

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HEPI

JANUARY 17, 2023

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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The Higher Ed Marketer

MARCH 29, 2022

Many potential students simply don't believe higher education is within reach. . It’s this inaccessibility and the lack of awareness of educational opportunities that is one of the leading causes of the declining perception of the value of higher ed. . The benefits of the platform for colleges and universities.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Female students have put themselves on the plus side of at least one gender gap in K-12 and higher education, new research shows. ” The post Who is on the positive side of the growing gender gap in higher education? appeared first on University Business. “In every U.S.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, a nonprofit dedicated to tracking student enrollment across higher education, found a 7.7% Even more promising is the fact that this uptick in enrollment is mainly driven by students coming from economically disadvantaged groups. Transfer rate of Black students: up 7.8%

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HEPI

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Aleks Subic , Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Aston University. A growing consensus suggests that the higher education (HE) funding system in England is not fit for purpose. It fails to meet the needs of students, graduates, universities, and business.

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HEPI

JUNE 11, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly written by Anna Bull , Director of the 1752 Group and lecturer at the University of York. Kelly was an undergraduate student who was groomed and sexually harassed by a lecturer at her university. Names of interviewees used in this blog have been changed to protect their identities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne PHOTO COURTESY OF CUNY Becoming Dean of Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enables Dr. Dara N. Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. That led Byrne to pursue her doctorate at Howard University. Upon completion of her Ph.D.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 5, 2024

The research found that less than half of higher education participants – 45% – felt the funding provided by Turing covered at least half of their costs on placement. This figure was higher for further education and vocational education and training participants at 86%.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

By Francie Diep The university makes similar arguments as its peers about how standardized-test requirements help disadvantaged applicants.

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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. We spoke to founders, directors, senior leadership team members and those involved in setting up a new university and developing the first programmes.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Their critics are right about one thing: universities are reliant on overseas money. These courses do have considerably lower entry requirements – they’re intended for both international students and domestic ones from disadvantaged backgrounds, to prepare them for the actual degree courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Yale University has pledged $10 million toward an initiative to strengthen its relationship with historically Black colleges and universities in the realm of research, teaching, and student access. Dr. Peter Salovey The initiative is part of a redress following Yale President Dr. Peter Salovey and Senior Trustee Josh Bekenstein’s Feb.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask yourself: Would the $20 million gift that Bloomberg Philanthropies gave to Princeton in 2021 to support the university’s first-generation and low-income students have a greater impact at Tougaloo College, an HBCU with a $10 million endowment? Kimball and Sarah M.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Wendy Thomson CBE, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London. Starting university can be daunting. Even more so for those who face additional barriers to accessing higher education. ’ This should not be the case.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 10, 2023

No road to higher education | Tory hell | Blindingly obvious | The undead | Sleep remedy Recent research found that one in three students starting university this year may opt to live at home ( Report, 10 August ). For those who live in rural communities, this isn’t an option.

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SRHE

JANUARY 20, 2023

It was an interesting week full of presentations and discussions around the theme of Mobilities in Higher Education. In the opening plenary talk, Emily Henderson invited us to reflect critically on the different ways in which mobilities of academics and students in higher education are discursively constructed.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Natalie Forster, Research Fellow in Applied Health and Social Care at Northumbria University. It draws upon research funded by the Society for Research into Higher Education , in which we explored how these communities are portrayed in widening participation research, policy and practice.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Despite the growing public skepticism of a college degree and it return on investment (ROI), the University of North Carolina system discovered that students with an undergraduate degree make $500,000 or more over their lifetimes than North Carolinians without one, a study found.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Arday, 37, a sociologist, aims to inspire others from disadvantaged and under-represented backgrounds A renowned sociologist who was unable to read or write until the age of 18, and was working part-time in Sainsbury’s less than eight years ago, is to become the youngest black professor ever appointed at the University of Cambridge.

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HEPI

JANUARY 17, 2024

Organised by the university’s social mobility network, the exhibition celebrates working-class lives. I’m honoured to be featured but seeing the image has made me reflect on how class-ridden our elite universities remain. I was a first-gen student as the Americans like to call it; the first in my family to stay in education beyond 16.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The chances of being admitted are higher than many students think, writes Megan Lee I work in admissions at the University of Oxford. My only concern was the claim that a “clutch of A*s” is needed for most students to get into Oxford.

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SRHE

JANUARY 15, 2024

In seeking to provide a more recent set of perspectives, I was commissioned by a Uni Connect partnership (of local universities, colleges and schools) to gather the insights of 14 teaching professionals based in schools and colleges located in the English West Midlands.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Students’ perspectives on careers services and employment , a group of university careers service and mission group leaders, an Office for Students (OfS) representative and senior executives from Handshake gathered with colleagues from HEPI, for a roundtable to explore the implications of the report’s findings and practical next steps.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

Indeed, significant numbers of today’s college students no longer conform to the traditional notion of someone in their late teens or early 20s who matriculated to a four-year university straight out of high school. One size doesn’t fit all in higher education. Julie Peller is the executive director of Higher Learning Advocates.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Social Mobility Commission says students should be informed of ‘earnings implications’ of course choices Students should be given more details about how the courses they study after leaving school might affect their employment prospects, it has been suggested, as figures show near-record numbers of 18-year-olds applying to university.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

. “This is our strategy to work in partnership, right across the sector and make Scotland an absolutely terrific place for international students to come, study, live and work,” said Julie Ramsay, chair of the Scottish Universities International Group and director of admissions and international programs at the University of St Andrews.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? None were pedagogues; they were mentors, who treated me as if I had ideas worth considering.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As the inaugural vice provost for Institutional Inclusive Excellence at Tufts University, Monroe France works with university leaders to expand and advance institutional inclusive excellence holistically. The post Monroe France, Tufts University, US appeared first on The PIE News.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This book review was kindly authored for the HEPI blog by Obinna Okereke , Project Manager for Student Experience at Coventry University. 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).

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The PIE News

AUGUST 16, 2023

“The way that funding is allocated doesn’t really take into context the way mobility works at the ground level,” said Rohan McCarthy-Gill, head of global mobility at the University of Sussex and chair of the British Universities Transnational Exchange group. The situation is therefore quite varied from institution to institution.”

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In this blog we delve into the survey findings, highlighting the importance of equitable access to AI in education and suggesting practical approaches to bridge the gap. Students’ use of AI The use of generative AI tools by higher education students is now widespread , following the public release of ChatGPT on 30 November 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2023

Brandon Creighton’s Senate version of HB 8 aims to give money to colleges based on the number of students who earn "credentials of value," complete at least 15 course hours and transfer to a four-year university, enroll in dual credit courses, or take courses that "apply toward academic or workforce program requirements."

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