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LETITIA WILLIAMS

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of the West Indies, a master’s in education policy and leadership and a Ph.D. in education policy from the University of Maryland College Park.

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Educators Strategize on How to Diversify the K-12 Teaching Profession

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But many educators at the annual meeting expressed worries about the political climate that has made it more difficult to encourage college students to consider entering the teaching profession. It’s a red-blue divide,” said Dr. Kevin Welner, director of the National Education Policy Center.

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Australian sector braces as new visa requirements come in

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The numbers showing the 548,800 net increase in arrivals in the country in the year to September 30 was the highest 12-month net migration period in Australia’s history. However, other ABS data has shown student visa applications and approvals have fallen by more than a third over the 12 months to February this year.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. Scott also holds the Robert J. Dr. Joyce E.

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Gypsy, Roma, Traveller: living as an outcast

HEPI

Nicole holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in History and Politics and an MA in International Journalism from City, University of London. This project came about after Nicole heard about HEPI’s 2022 report on the educational outcomes of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (GRT). A full transcript is also provided below.

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Sunak’s student visas clampdown continues boom and bust pattern

The Guardian - Higher Education

Move coincides with financial difficulties for universities arising from high inflation and freezing of domestic tuition fees Warning of over-reliance on Chinese students Rishi Sunak may not go down in history as “the man who destroyed UK higher education,” as one former university leader put it, but the prime minister’s sabre rattling on international (..)

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Report Suggests Reforms if Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Race-conscious admissions were now only allowed for the achievement of the educational benefits of diversity. Dr. Anthony Carnevale, director of the CEW “We decided to disconnect affirmative action from America’s vulgar and violent racial history,” said Dr. Anthony P. Carnevale, director of the CEW. “It

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