The Guardian - Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

The cohort who left sixth form in 2020 have had an education plagued with setbacks, notes one reader While university staff have every right to take part in industrial action and fight for better pay and conditions, the current marking boycott affecting 145 universities seems a step too far in terms of its negative impact on the students involved and (..)

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

At the start of my sixth form (60 years ago), our history teacher told us that he would not be chasing us to get our essays in on time as he knew that we wanted to go to university. Shouldn’t that buy them more teaching and less partying?, We had to be self‑motivated.

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HEPI

AUGUST 1, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Roger Brown, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Policy and former Vice-Chancellor of Southampton Solent University. By the start of the twenty-first century though, that had changed and there was a role for a specialist higher education think tank.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book brings together 55 different authors – including academics, a vice-chancellor and numerous education policy experts (such as Sam Freedman, Lord Lucas, Jonathan Simons , Ann Mroz and Tom Richmond). For example, the proportion is far higher in certain places ( such as in Edinburgh ) and at certain stages ( such as in the sixth form ).

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

by Neil Raven Introduction In a previous blog , I explored the reasons why some students on level 3 (advanced) professional and applied courses decide against higher education. Those whose views were sought came from a further education college (FEC) located in the East Midlands. Contact him at neil.d.raven@gmail.com.

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HEPI

JANUARY 25, 2023

You would be hard pressed to find someone in either the higher education sector or Westminster willing to argue that the current funding system for universities is working well. According to the Association of Colleges, at least 20 colleges sought borrowing approvals from the Department for Education in December 2022 alone.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

During that time, he was reintroduced to sports in the form of wheelchair basketball. Here we are 20 years later, and I’m presented with the same form of an opportunity, playing the sport that I love for one of the top schools in the country,” Montgomery says. “Instead, I was in the hospital getting a bullet removed from my back.”.

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SRHE

JANUARY 15, 2024

It had also acerbated long-held anxieties over debt and the costs (and benefits) of a higher education, in part because of the challenging labour market conditions generated by the pandemic, including in witnessing parents who had been furloughed or lost their jobs ( Raven, 2023 ). Contact him at neil.d.raven@gmail.com.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Government likely to treat FE sector as ‘big schools’, removing autonomy over borrowing and investment Further education (FE) colleges are likely to be treated as “big schools” by the government and lose critical financial independence, after a ruling reclassified colleges in England as part of central government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

In 1905, Black feminist civic leader and educator Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944), penned an essay titled, ‘The Colored Girl.’ Focused on educating working-class Black women to become skilled, self-employed service professionals, Burroughs and her college-educated faculty “resolved to find and train leaders.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

The non-verbal form of trash-talking or trolling is familiar to contact sports like basketball. I'm the sixth-fastest woman in this game ever, and can't nobody ever take that from me." How dare they not follow the unspoken rule–shut up and play—those "rules" change when Black women are involved in any form of resistance.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 20, 2023

What made this summer’s wait for A-level results so nerve-shredding was the worst kept secret in education: the generous grade boundaries that softened the blow for previous victims of the Covid school closures would be cruelly removed for this, the biggest wave of university hopefuls in living memory. Continue reading.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Global Law student and Unite Foundation scholarship recipient Lisa reflects on her experiences in higher education opens and discusses why university represents such an important and transformative opportunity for care experienced and estranged students. I came out of sixth form with four A*s and an A but still found the process overwhelming.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Any word that seems to signify, accurately or not, hierarchy, inequality, racism, sexism or some other form of prejudice is subject to condemnation and cancellation. One hundred and thirty million Americans—more than half of all adults—read below a sixth-grade level.

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HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

Creating a parity of esteem between Further Education and Higher Education, or between ‘vocational’ and ‘academic’, is often suggested as a good idea to improve skills shortages, achieve levelling up and promote economic growth. But we value our FE roots, and have 2000 FE students, with plans to open a sixth form centre from 2024.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

OCTOBER 5, 2022

According to HubSpot , 64% of surveyed marketers believe that 20 to 60 seconds is the optimal length range of a short-form marketing video, and 36% believe the best length of a general marketing video should be around one to three minutes. . Once you figure out your goals, you can create branded content that helps you achieve them. .

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2023

As higher education professionals, we are still struggling to process the convergence of crises, fear, and violence we have witnessed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. If we have learned anything from the Great Resignation in higher education, it is that burnout is real, and care is necessary for the future of our profession.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

Unfortunately, many higher education practices complicate first-gen students’ ability to stay through graduation or even apply. She started her education career in K-12 and moved to community college leadership. Her mother was a first-gen student while she was a first-gen ‘traditional” student.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2023

As higher education professionals, we are still struggling to process the convergence of crises, fear, and violence we have witnessed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. If we have learned anything from the Great Resignation in higher education, it is that burnout is real, and care is necessary for the future of our profession.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

The statue of John Witherspoon at Princeton The highest profile controversy is at Princeton University, over a prominent statue of John Witherspoon, the school’s sixth president. Now, with campus life having returned to some version of normal, debates over landscape fairness are back.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Efforts to widen higher education access have tended to focus on the provision of information and supportto those from under-represented backgrounds. For context, progression rates are generally lower from FE colleges than sixth forms. Neil Raven is an educational consultant and researcher in widening access. References.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

If we look rearward, we see that a series of utterly unpredictable developments in the last decade and a half left an indelible imprint on higher education today. The great American demographic shift was a second major development with vast repercussions for higher education. A fourth major development was the analytics revolution.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

It was a fascinating session because it was the first time that a number of your senior managers had been in a room together, and yet Lancaster University – like higher education institutions more generally – had continued to thrive during the worst of the pandemic. Back to the future I hope you will let me begin with some history.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

The Whitehall decision to return to pre-pandemic grading was premature, and unfair on a cohort whose education was defined by Covid The students who this week collected their A-level results overcame a formidable set of challenges.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

ATSU is also creating a Grow Your Own faculty development program that offers a low-to-no-cost education designed to support students interested in academic medicine. Five areas were examined: curriculum, equitable assessment, mitigating bias, learning environment culture, and equity in research education.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Proportion of top A*-A grades drops from 35.9% amid return to pre-pandemic era grading A-level results – latest updates A-level grades awarded to students in England have shown their biggest drop after results plummeted across the board in line with the government’s policy of enforcing a return to pre-pandemic grading.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

STEM ALL IN Clemson University College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences (CECAS) STEM ALL IN empowers participants to pursue STEM graduate degrees through on-campus experiences, educational sessions, and network building. Some activities are in person, and others require collaboration among student teams.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Ucas tells applicants to act quickly to avoid disappointment, with A-level results due in England, Wales and Northern Ireland next week Students who miss out on their expected exam grades face fierce competition for university places this summer, with fewer vacancies on courses than in previous years.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 18, 2023

Ucas says 10,400 had been admitted through clearing by Friday, amid concern over lower grades awarded in England Record numbers of British teenagers have won university places through clearing, as the post-pandemic readjustment of A-level grades meant thousands in England missed out on their initial course offers.

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HEPI

JANUARY 22, 2023

Writing for HEPI in December, Mary Curnock Cook and Malcolm Grant argued that the ways in which the Office for Students applies QAA methodology to new entrants to HE prevents the emergence of different forms of higher education provision. A different approach to assessing new providers, they argued, might unlock more.

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SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

A coincidence of timing led to a disturbing voice in my head as I read the reports from Main Panel C, covering Social Sciences, and the Education panel. The brief description of the moderation process in Education suggests that this may have been repeated. Education. Procedural propriety.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

Matters of freedom of expression and higher education’s federal responsibilities were at the forefront of the University of California’s Sixth Annual #SpeechMatters Conference. Places that ideally offer space for exchanging ideas and stretching perspectives, institutions of higher education are increasingly charged environments.”

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University Business

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A Republican, Johnson has served Ohio’s sixth district since 2011. As a representative, Johnson has commented on higher education’s bias toward a “liberal ideology” and believed the sector needed more diversity of opinion. Representative Bill Johnson to lead the university.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Achieve, Lead, Vote I have written a number of times about the roles many of our Founding Fathers played in establishing and cultivating higher-education institutions, especially liberal-arts colleges. 1] An educated electorate and citizenry were critical to the functionality of a democratic state.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 23, 2023

23 May · Episode 156 Preserving Democracy: The Vital Role of Liberal Arts in Higher Education 29 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Drumm McNaughton talks with Jeff Scheuer about the role of liberal arts in higher education and their value to the American identity and democracy.

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HEPI

APRIL 15, 2024

But what about higher education? In many respects, the relevance for higher education is in the chapters that focus on other issues. He also retreads his powerful critique of the available options for those not best suited to the route of traditional higher education. This book isn’t perfect, though it’s pretty close to it.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

12 December · Episode 185 AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education 49 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students.

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