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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

In 2003, India recorded over 33,100 outputs and increased to 285,400 in 2022. in 2003 to 7.0% To achieve these goals, government expenditure on tertiary education needs to increase to over 2.5% As a share of the world’s outputs, India increased from 2.1% India’s proportion of publications in Quarter 1 journals was 32.1%

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Supporting student parents is an equity imperative (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Ultimately, I graduated from Florida State University with a bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition science and a new passion for a career in higher education to ensure more students have equitable access to college and to supports, such as childcare, that help them succeed. I would later earn my Ph.D.

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From 1998 to 2003, Floyd served the university before going on to lead the University of Missouri and Washington State University. Floyd Hall—home to the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences facility— named in honor of the school’s sixth and first African American president to lead WMU.

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

SRHE

Yet, stepping back from the focus associated with outreach evaluation and taking time to the talk with – and listen to – the same learners can be a very enlightening experience and, as Levin-Rozalis (2003) notes, lead to ‘new insights’. Higher Education Policy Institute Report 140, [link] , 17-23.

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Shifts, shocks, fragility: are English universities on a sustainable course? By John Raftery

HEPI

It was a clear indication of the shift in direction in education policy when the preparations for the new regulatory approach involved consultations, not with the universities but with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the National Audit Office. [2]

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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. SCHWINDT, E.