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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In order to enact human values, we have to start with ourselves. The conference theme this year is humanizing higher education, and hundreds of scholars from across the country gathered here to share their research, resources, and make connections. They’re there to provide access to higher education to their communities.”

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How will technology change education in the future?

HEPI

There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. Just ten years ago, in the words of Wired magazine, Sebastian Thrun declared that ‘ In 50 years … there will be only ten institutions in the world delivering higher education ’.

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The Robbins Review – Lessons for the Future by Professor Huw Morris

HEPI

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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A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“No matter what area of education you’re in, you should at least be asking some questions that have to do with race. You cannot talk about education in this country without talking about race. I would not be where I am today without his example of being a good human being while doing the work that matters most.”

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The Higher Education Council (HEC) in Bahrain: Ensuring Quality and Excellence in Higher Ed Institutions

Creatrix Campus

The HEC also evaluates the institution's overall management and governance, including its financial stability, facilities, and human resources. Allocating funding for higher education institutions and providing funding opportunities for students, such as scholarships.

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In praise of Dr Tony Bruce

HEPI

Those who knew Tony well won’t be surprised to hear of the quality of his work because he was also a keen historian, authoring books on The Purchase System in the British Army and The Last Crusade (on the war in Palestine, 1914-1918) as well as producing an Encyclopaedia of Naval History covering the sixteenth century to current times.

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A People's History of Higher Education in the US?

Higher Education Inquirer

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. To make history, it's helpful to know history. Higher education in the United States has always reflected and reinforced larger (sick) society and its ills. In many cases it has been horrifying.

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