Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

Tressie McMillan Cottom McMillan Cottom is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill and a senior principal researcher at UNC’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. She says the things that resonated with her in graduate school were theoretically sophisticated and mattered to people.

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2024

There is nothing novel about the current approaches to improving access, quality and equity in higher education. 1 concern of students is cost, but a close second is simply that they don’t like going to school. This is a nuanced difference between learning from school and going to school.

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

This blog was contributed by Andrew Croydon, Director of Skills & Education Policy and Examinations at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI). A new government, but the same old debate. How many students should go to university, and what courses should they study when they’re there?

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AUGUST 31, 2023

PeopleAdmin Wins Best Higher Education Solution in Tech Edvocate Awards Austin, TX – August 31, 2023 – PeopleAdmin , the leading provider of solutions for higher education, has been named a winner of the 7th Annual Tech Edvocate Awards , earning the title of Best Higher Education Solution for the second year in a row.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Ulrich Müller, CHE’s expert for higher education policy, said that the Baden-Württemberg model “doesn’t make any sense in German context” “It is not a well thought-out idea, to establish a tuition fee only for a minority of students. It means a lot of effort for little return,” Müller said.

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HEPI

MAY 7, 2024

Published last month, a HEPI Policy Note on ‘Non-continuation of students in the UK’ observed that continuation rates differ according to such factors as ethnicity, disability, deprivation and free school meals status. These challenges have meanwhile been making headlines in the HE sector news. Furthermore.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since. This article looks back at the report and considers what the lessons might be for politicians, officials and higher education leaders contemplating a future review.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Nick Hillman, HEPI Director, takes a look at a new book on private schools, The State of Independence. 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).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. Based on data gathered, we increased support services such as Ram Pantry, counseling, technology availability, and academic advising,” he continues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

In a precedent-setting career in higher education, the late Dr. Alfredo de los Santos Jr. De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work. Richardson Jr.,

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HEPI

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Universities are driven by several factors, from teaching and student satisfaction to the demands of the local business community , as well as the push to respond to social and technological change. Previously a mooted buzzword, being ‘enterprising’ is now a necessity within educational settings. Entrepreneurship and universities.

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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. In almost every case, the decision not to pursue full-time higher education did not mean abandoning the idea of further training. by Neil Raven.

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MARCH 6, 2023

Her research has been featured in many academic journals including Online Learning and the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning , and at academic conferences including the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE).

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

by Kat Emms For two years Edge Foundation has been drawing together lessons from past education policies. Rather than focussing on traditional further education provision, these establishments wholly or largely concentrated on higher education (‘advanced’) courses.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. The New England Commission of Higher Education] is getting more comfortable with pilots, for examples.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer Many in higher education talk frequently of how flaws in transfer and credit mobility cost students time and money, but how that plays out is not well articulated. This can force students to wait to take needed courses or lead them to take courses that are not needed and will not count toward completion.

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I jumped at the chance to speak to London Higher in part because I am an alumnus of our host institution, having studied here at the end of the last century when Queen Mary University of London / QMUL was known as QMWC or Queen Mary and Westfield College. I am also lucky to be an Honorary Fellow of this institution.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

“It has been the desire of many entrepreneurs, foundations and policy leaders that microcredentials will become the substitute for expensive degrees,” Sean Gallagher, executive professor of educational policy at Northeastern University, said. ” But here’s some good news.

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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.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Pro vice-chancellors and university directors step out of the vehicle one by one, school-trip style. Institutional matchmaking Photo: British Council India From Russell Group institutions to private universities, the spectrum of Britain’s higher education system is represented among the group.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer In 2021, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education reported that two out of three learners—we call them learners, not students, to dispel the image of the 18- to 22-year-old residential student—come to college with previous credit or prior learning.

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SRHE

APRIL 17, 2024

by Rob Cuthbert Higher education has always been something of a playground for junior politicians; HE ministers usually serve only short terms, and many are practising for bigger jobs. TPS contributions rose sharply on 1 April 2024 as Tom Williams reported for Times Higher Education on 18 March 2024.

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The PIE News

MAY 2, 2024

Such a projection is particularly pertinent after a report this year found that 80% of higher education providers could fall into deficit if there is a gradual or sudden drop in international students. Nearly 30% of Fleming’s students are international.

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MAY 26, 2023

If you’re in North America, you know that one of the perennial debates in higher education finance is about the efficacy of performance-based funding, or PBF, with the bulk of the academic evidence suggesting in one way or another that such schemes do not achieve their purported aims. So the distinction is in the mix.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2023

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. Labor has had a few recent victories at elite schools, but it remains to be seen how strong this movement will become and whether it will spread to lower rung institutions. Some of it has been documented.

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HEPI

MARCH 17, 2024

In higher education, the birthplace of artificial intelligence in all its forms stretching back many decades , universities and colleges have quickly devised policies and approaches for the use of generative AI tools by students for their studies, and in particular for producing assessed work.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 25, 2023

The trio is championing the initiative as one that provides open, low-cost, flexible access to higher education. A higher education cocktail that mixes a university known for innovation , an experienced provider of compelling educational multimedia content and a behemoth online video-sharing website holds promise.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

This is driving the way people vote, it’s driving what school boards do, it’s driving what governors do. This is driving the way people vote, it’s driving what school boards do, it’s driving what governors do. The technology revolution did not include black people, and therefore, we had a digital divide.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Knowlton, who serves as chair of the Senate’s Board of Admissions and Relations With Schools, expressed the sentiment in a letter to Susan Cochran, president of the Academic Senate, during deliberation over the new policy. ” Cocco, who also serves as chair of the university committee on educational policy, agreed.

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The PIE News

APRIL 30, 2023

Photo: IDP It’s time for Congress to modernise this policy to permit dual intent for international students applying for F-1 visas to attend US colleges and universities, a concept that is already available in other nonimmigrant categories, and to provide more green cards for graduates of our higher education institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: Nathaniel Greve launched an alternative student newspaper at the Georgia Institute of Technology as a way to help heal what he saw as the flawed political speech environment on campus. “I think this is a big issue to our school, and it was an issue at schools across the board and just the nation as a whole.”

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