Wonkhe
APRIL 28, 2024
Nishan Canagarajah shares the work the University of Leicester is doing to coalesce investment, effort, and support to provide new opportunities in northwest Leicester The post How universities can help unlock and nurture diverse local talent appeared first on Wonkhe.
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 28, 2024
Richard Cordray Takes the Fall for FAFSA Fiasco Katherine Knott Sun, 04/28/2024 - 10:52 AM The Federal Student Aid chief and debt-relief czar is stepping down after months of criticism over the bungled FAFSA overhaul. But is now the right time for accountability?
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Wonkhe
APRIL 28, 2024
Cranfield University vice chancellor explains how the Graduate Route enables a pipeline of highly skilled students to work with British industry The post Changing the Graduate Route would be a supreme act of self-sabotage appeared first on Wonkhe.
Faculty Focus
APRIL 28, 2024
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney Many undergraduate and graduate programs at colleges and universities worldwide provide opportunities for their students to travel abroad and learn global experiences that help them complete requirements within a designated course. This global experience focuses on observing, relating to, and learning from like minds in like disciplines but in different cultures, environments, and strategic organizational
Wonkhe
APRIL 28, 2024
Freeports are one of the government's flagship place-based economic policies. James Coe investigates lessons from the ways that universities have got involved The post Freeports are effective as convenors of place-based R&D – but that doesn’t mean they are necessary appeared first on Wonkhe.
Faculty Focus
APRIL 28, 2024
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney Many undergraduate and graduate programs at colleges and universities worldwide provide opportunities for their students to travel abroad and learn global experiences that help them complete requirements within a designated course. This global experience focuses on observing, relating to, and learning from like minds in like disciplines but in different cultures, environments, and strategic organizational
Wonkhe
APRIL 28, 2024
Fresh from their latest bus tour to the continent, Jim Dickinson and Livia Scott try to identify why students in the UK seem to depend on benevolence rather than rights and protections The post Why does the UK have the worst student rights in Europe? appeared first on Wonkhe.
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Economics and Change in Higher Education
APRIL 28, 2024
Higher education experts have a message for college leaders contemplating a merger: Don’t wait. By the time a college is in deep financial distress and facing potential closure, the window for an optimal merger typically has closed long ago. Institutions in trouble often wait until “the absolute last minute and then think, ‘Now it’s a good idea to find a merger partner’ — which nobody will touch,” Ricardo Azziz, founder and director of the Center for Higher Education Mergers and Acquisitions, sa
HEPI
APRIL 28, 2024
This HEPI blog was kindly written by Emma Wakelin , Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research & Innovation at the Royal College of Art. (X/Twitter: @Emma_Wakelin ) This piece is the latest in a series of HEPI blogs discussing REF2029. In March, we heard from the Executive Chair of Research England, Dame Professor Jessica Corner: you can read her piece here.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
APRIL 28, 2024
A new round of UM OER Grants (up to $10,000) is available to help faculty and instructors create digital, open access course materials. Applications are now being accepted for the 2024-25 academic year. Through the Advance Open Ed 2023-24 project, UM Libraries provided financial and practical assistance for the creation of nine open educational resources (OER) publications.
The Guardian - Higher Education
APRIL 28, 2024
Police have arrested dozens of students across US universities after a crackdown on pro-Palestine protests on campuses. Erum Salam and Margaret Sullivan report from New York You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport This episode was first played on our global news podcast, Today in Focus. As the Israel-Gaza war grinds on amid a worsening humanitarian crisis, the world’s attention has been captured by a battle on the campuses of elite US universities.
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