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The regulation of student education: are the quality wars back?

HEPI

The polytechnics and colleges were subject to a dual regime of oversight by the Council for National Academic Awards (the CNAA, whose degrees and diplomas they offered) and inspection by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate (the latter’s judgements linked from 1990 to funding by the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council).

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Funding undergraduate higher education

HEPI

One option is to recast the system as students investing in their education through an advance of their anticipated higher pay. Graduates would pay much more than now, but for a much shorter time. Universities price courses in terms of this future salary share and share in the financial risks of things not working out.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

Cambridge University has an Action Research on Research Culture project in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, Leiden University, Freie Universität Berlin and ETH Zurich, suggesting international reach towards defining such a culture. by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’?

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Teaching Lower-Division Undergraduates to Think Like Anthropologists, Economists, Geographers, Political Scientists, Psychologists and Sociologists

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What a great tag line for a book: “the definitive Freakonomics for sports.” A blurb describes it quite accurately as “a fun and insightful account of what happens when economic thinking intersects with the world of sports.” Some of Oyer’s insight won’t surprise you. Nothing is static.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

But we can learn from experience and draw upon those lessons as we make decisions that will shape the future. Only by reflecting backward can we recognize the causes of past failures and disappointments and draw lessons that might help us in the future as we cope with adversity and make the best of bad situations.

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Nurturing Free Speech and Respectful Dialogue in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 168 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Eric Hogue

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15 August · Episode 168 Nurturing Free Speech and Respectful Dialogue in Higher Education 40 Min · By Drumm McNaughton Eric shares how faculty, staff, and students can approach free speech and respectful dialogue by conducting co-teaching practices and exercises. This allows students to see arguments from other people’s views.