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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women have been making crucial contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since long before STEM was an educational buzzword. Since 2001, the foundation has given over $270 million in advance grants to institutions and nonprofit groups in 41 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

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Academic Freedom, Tenure & the U.S. Higher Education System

GlobalHigherEd

since 2001, often engenders a drive to compare. David Warsh ) note is inevitable, but defacto functions as ‘engines’ for regional and national economies. David Warsh ) note is inevitable, but defacto functions as ‘engines’ for regional and national economies.

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Have the Higher Education & Research Act and the Office for Students delivered for new and ‘challenger’ providers?

HEPI

In the press release accompanying the White Paper, Jo Johnson said: Our universities are engines of economic growth and social mobility, but if we are to remain competitive and ensure that a high-quality education remains open to all, we cannot stand still.

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Why not HE? The reasons those from under-represented backgrounds decide against university

SRHE

Connor, H, Dewson, S, Tyers, C, Eccles, J, Regan, J, and Aston, J (2001) Social class and higher education: Issues affecting decisions on participation by lower social class groups , Institute for Employment Studies, [link]. Code of Practice on Research Integrity , Edinburgh Napier University, [link].

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

Foundation degrees’ were tried out in 2000 and launched in 2001, often specific to particular professions. Listed among providers granted taught DAP by the Office for Students is the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology (2021). However, this division may be growing less clear.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

With many providers offering ‘Professional’ doctorates, leading for example to a Doctorate in Business, a Doctorate in Education, a Doctorate in Engineering, the thesis may be replaced partly or wholly by professional experience and study may take place in conjunction with paid work as a required element.

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Where and what did the Cabinet study?

HEPI

The Guardian reported that, by contrast, ‘in 2001 91 per cent of Conservative MPs were male, and every single one of them was white’. Degrees in the Humanities and in those in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects stand graduates in good stead for Cabinet careers in almost equal measure.