Sat.Nov 09, 2024

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Trashing universities is now a populist position

Wonkhe

An attack on higher education feels like a must have for every right wing populist platform.

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England's universities flex their muscles to hike fees, while students get a bum deal | Sonia Sodha

The Guardian - Higher Education

Canny PR suggests critics are against aspiration but who is policing the spread of poor-quality degrees? Sometimes you just need to call something out for what it is. English undergraduate education is a hot mess that works in the institutional interests of universities, not young people. Yes, there are bastions of excellence. But, in expanding an elite system that served a small slice of society a few decades ago to cover about half of young people , politicians have given far too little though

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Weekend Reading: Working with the awkward squad – A review of Eric Kaufmann’s Taboo and Rob Henderson’s Troubled

HEPI

In a year when prominent heads fell victim to cultural issues, Edward Venning, Partner at Six Ravens Consulting, reviews new books with lessons on how to navigate them. Are the culture wars a 1960s mind virus, promulgated by university failures? Or just the latest way for privileged folk to use higher education as a tool of oppression? And does it matter, now that Peak Woke has passed ?

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Presidents’ Alliance Reaffirms Higher Education’s “Steadfast Commitment” to Immigrant, Refugee, and International Students

Higher Education Inquirer

For Immediate Release: November 6, 2024 Contact: Michael Earls at michael@npagency.com Washington D.C. – As the nation reflects on the results of yesterday’s election, the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration reaffirms our steadfast commitment to undocumented, immigrant-origin, international, and refugee students, and policies that recognize their essential role in the future workforce and leadership of our country.

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Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership (SCM): Igniting Students’ Academic Development P

The article addresses the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. It elucidates the SMC background, key assumptions, and the main pillars of the model to form a a change agent who could be helpful with institutional in-service delivery.

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Idaho-University of Phoenix deal has fallen off the radar

Higher Education Inquirer

For months, neither the University of Idaho nor the University of Phoenix have reported on the status of the proposed deal between both parties. The last local media report, from the Idaho Ed News came in July, when the University of Phoenix said that they were still committed to partnering with Idaho. The University of Idaho's University of Phoenix Affiliation FAQ page has not been updated recently and some of the information is obviously outdated.