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It is not too late to shift gears to a more visionary International Education Strategy for Canada 

The PIE News

As a policy area, it has evolved to incorporate a wide range of both policy sectors and policy actors on the federal level: GAC; Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC); Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC); and Research and Innovation. Creating consensus among all those diverse actors is difficult.

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A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Howard says he’s blown away when he meets K-12 schoolteachers who have followed his career and who praise his scholarship. 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.

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

Creatrix Campus

HEC's three crucial mandates are enhancing university performance, observing and assessing service, and governing new study programs. The HEC also allocates funding for higher education institutions and provides funding opportunities for students, such as scholarships.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

The HEFCE-commissioned evaluation tells us only that it was not very ‘useful’ in the terms defined by the current policy framework. In sum, we seem to be edging closer to repeating the history of rail privatisation. It may not be Virgin territory, but is higher education on the right track?” (No No 13 On the right track? ).

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The State of Higher Education Part 1: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 159 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Courtney Brown

The Change Leader, Inc.

Before 2011, Brown was a senior research associate at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University. There, she led studies and evaluations focused on education and post-high school programs within the United States and across Europe. We don’t offer small scholarships or anything like that.

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How federal and state policies gauge colleges' value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

McCann: You certainly see it in the history around the policy, if not, in the Higher Education Act itself. You can read back at why the Pell Grant was created, why the student loan program was created, and see that the policy makers’ intent was for those dollars help students go to college.

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