Wonkhe
DECEMBER 4, 2022
After two reports looking into the experiences of care-experienced students were published, Sunday Blake reads between the lines and asks what else we can learn. The post The careers of care-experienced students paint a fascinating picture appeared first on Wonkhe.
Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This is considered ‘deficit thinking,’ or thinking that defines a diagnosis by its challenges, in order to treat, fix, or minimize specific features of a student’s disability. This kind of approach to education is challenging for autistic students.
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Wonkhe
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Further education colleges are used to being overlooked and underfunded – but the free speech bill will have serious consequences for the sector, argues Julian Gravatt. The post What would be the impact of the freedom of speech bill on colleges? appeared first on Wonkhe.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Dr. Cynthia Pickett will become the Presidential Associate for Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) at Cal Poly Pomona (CPP), effective Dec. 12. Dr. Cynthia Pickett “In this role, she will serve as a member of my Cabinet, providing leadership to the university in our work to advance equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) as core values, and collaborating with partners across the campus to foster a meaningful sense of belonging for all members of the Cal Poly Pomona community,” read a lette
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 4, 2022
The post-Browne settlement promised hard times ahead for part-time study - David Kernohan asks whether things have got any better. The post A decade on, are we any nearer to fixing part-time study? appeared first on Wonkhe.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 4, 2022
The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) has launched a partnership pilot program to increase effectiveness of skills-based hiring with the help of a $350,000 grant from the Lumina Foundation. Jee Hang Lee The partnership – it includes ACCT, Opportunity@Work, the state of Maryland, select employers – aims to design or improve training programs at four pilot Maryland community colleges around essential skills for specific occupations.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Research England executive chair Jessica Corner launches the second wave of Expanding Excellence in England. The post Expanding the potential for research excellence appeared first on Wonkhe.
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Wonkhe
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Tim Blackman, Vice Chancellor of The Open University and David Latchman, Vice Chancellor of Birkbeck University of London, call for a fresh start for part-time higher education. The post Part-time higher education needs ambition appeared first on Wonkhe.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Blog: Learning Innovation I’m driving my colleagues crazy with my constant worrying about the new normal of higher ed work. To help convince myself to stop longing for a mostly in-person and campus-based academic work culture, here are three reasons why I should stop pining for that past. Reason No. 1: The days of preflexible and prehybrid higher ed work were not all that great.
HEPI
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Katherine Emms is a Senior Education & Policy Researcher at the Edge Foundation. You can read all of Edge’s ‘Learning from the Past’ series here. The current shortage of high-skilled professionals has again placed vocational education centre stage. Unfortunately, shortness of memory in government and policymaking circles has created a disconnect between past and present attempts at vocational education reform.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
DECEMBER 4, 2022
That’s not the case for every school. Oregon State reports record enrollment this fall. Many of Oregon’s public colleges and universities are seeing fewer students this fall compared to last year, according to the state’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission. For some institutions, the decline in enrollment is a continuing trend only heightened by the pandemic.
ACPA
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Shavon Hutchinson, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. The Mid-Level Community of Practice is very excited to announce that Shavon Hutchinson has been selected as the recipient of the MLCOP scholarship for the Donna M. Bourassa Mid-Level Management Institute. Shavon’s extensive experience as a mid-level professional at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus and his leadership in the Caribbean Tertiary Level Personnel Association as well as other experience in ACPA stood out
Economics and Change in Higher Education
DECEMBER 4, 2022
The legislation, signed into law earlier this year, and dubbed the “Stop the WOKE Act”, was touted by Governor DeSantis and his supporters in the Florida legislature as a way to silence supposed left-wing professors and “cultural Marxists” and rid the state’s lecture halls of such topics as Critical Race Theory, which, they said, teaches students to hate America and forces white students to feel guilty about racial history pre-dating their birth.
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