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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

Still others are climate refugees in search of land that supports human life. She both struggled to pay her loans and felt limited in her ability to advance her career without further education. Some, for example, are former wards of the state or undocumented immigrants living in the United States. ’ 10,000 times.

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Radical proposals in leader’s conference speech

SRHE

by Rob Cuthbert The leader’s speech to Conference was expected to include far-reaching proposals for higher and further education. Just the best education system in the Western world. But we will go further towards this vision. We obtained this leaked text of an early draft: “It is time for radical change.

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Decentralisation and the case for moving to a tertiary education system

SRHE

The Report does not make any recommendations on governance structures for education but strongly commends the South Wales Civic Engagement Partnership (SWCEP), which involves five universities and five further education colleges, suggesting that the authors lean towards tertiary solutions.

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Should Oxford students walk away from the NUS?

HEPI

Nonetheless, the disaffiliation campaign was really about the theatre of student politics – especially among us middle-class arts and humanities students. However, no higher education policy conversation ever sensibly starts with Oxford (or Cambridge) because they are so untypical.

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Preparing for Government again: how the higher education sector needs to prepare for the next Labour administration

HEPI

This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has 20 years’ experience in education policy research. The Labour Party is ahead in the polls and has been since December 2021.