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What happened the last time Labour wrestled with equality versus excellence in education?

HEPI

It’s taken me almost 20 years but, over the summer, I eventually got around to reading a book I’ve been wanting to read on higher education policy since I started working in the area over 15 years ago: University to Uni – The Politics of Higher Education since 1944 by Robert Stevens.

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Is India the world’s next top knowledge power?

The PIE News

Institutions In India, there are more than 1,110 universities, over 43,000 colleges, and almost 11,300 standalone institutions according to the latest All India Survey on Higher Education ( AISHE ). In 2003, India recorded over 33,100 outputs and increased to 285,400 in 2022. in 2003 to 7.0% million, behind China with 57.14

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Supporting student parents is an equity imperative (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Completing my college degree was the path to a better way of life, and I was determined to graduate to experience the socioeconomic benefits a college degree would afford my family. I was a Pell Grant recipient and the first person in my family to attend college, and I knew college graduation was key to providing for my new family.

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Julian Vasquez Heilig Lori Gottschling For Vasquez Heilig—a prominent public policy researcher who has carved out a national reputation both in and outside academic circles for his scholarship on equity and innovation—the pendulum at WMU is swinging in the right direction.

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

SRHE

In both instances, the principal aim was to understand better the challenges to HE progression faced by those on advanced level applied and professional courses (including BTECs) at a Midlands based further education (FE) college. For context, progression rates are generally lower from FE colleges than sixth forms.

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Malaysia’s International Education by 2020 and Beyond: Re-examining Concept, Targets and Outcome

GlobalHigherEd

Morshidi is also a Senior Research Fellow at the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN), Universiti Sains Malaysia. Admittedly, none of the aims of modern ‘international education’ are exclusively international (James, 2005: 324). Thompson (eds) International Education: Principles and Practice , pp. MATTERN, W.G.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

Diploma Mills: How For-profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream. The Road Ahead for America's Colleges & Universities. Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality. Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Is College Worth It?: Teachers College Press.

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