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Unveiling An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. We have the greatest higher education system in the world. In between tracing the historiography of higher education in the U.S.,

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The Value of Higher Education in Developed Economies

HEPI

Mathias Cormann, Secretary General of the OECD, on the value of higher education in developed countries. Never mind that the 50% target he refers to relates to tertiary education, I am certain he is not alone in believing that too many people go to university. In 1998, 20% of adults in the OECD had a tertiary education.

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Can higher education in Pennsylvania be saved?

University Business

Pennsylvania is facing a double-edged sword in funding its higher education system next year, so much so that Gov. Josh Shapiro proclaimed his state’s public higher education system “isn’t working. “Pennsylvania’s approach can hardly be called a system.

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A Norwegian vision: transforming higher education with VECOIL partnerships

The PIE News

This assembly is a testament to the transformative power of the Norwegian Panorama Virtual Exchange and Collaborative Online International Learning Partnerships Initiative, a visionary government policy that’s reshaping how Norwegian higher education institutions engage with the world.

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Sharpton Organize March to Protest DeSantis' Crusade to "Whitewash Black History"

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ron DeSantis’ attempts to "bring the state back to the pre-Civil Rights era by banning Black history from the classroom." DeSantis is using his office to sanitize Black history from the education system,” said Sharpton. “He

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The Tories have sucked the joy from the education system. Here are three ways Labour can bring it back | Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - Higher Education

Meanwhile, art, music, drama, sport, and design and technology are vanishing – they are unaffordable in schools with cut budgets that knew they would be judged on that harsh English baccalaureate regime: English , maths, two sciences, history or geography and a language. Nothing else.

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New Study Reveals the Anti-CRT Agenda is Really about Denying Racism and Revising History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Rather, it is evidence that, maybe, more students are being exposed to an honest, non-propagandized version of race relationships and American history. They are for denying racism and revising history, by any means necessary, including by advancing draconian censorship legislation. This could be a positive development.

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