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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

While global commentators have long focused on the rise in quality and capacity of Chinese institutions, the Indian Government’s commitment to building the scale and impact of higher education has set the nation on a trajectory to compete with China, the United States and Western Europe for supremacy in knowledge leadership.

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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. Other steps are needed.

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Opportunity to make a difference For the 49-year-old public scholar who has spent much of his career exploring issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and anti-racism leadership across the K-12 and higher education landscape, coming to WMU was an opportunity to help propel the 120-year institution forward.

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

SRHE

Efforts to widen higher education access have tended to focus on the provision of information and supportto those from under-represented backgrounds. In almost every case, the decision not to pursue full-time higher education did not mean abandoning the idea of further training. by Neil Raven.

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

HEPI

For example, take the pace at which the English population can acquire higher education and skills. Many of the UK’s competitors have systems of higher education where the time taken to achieve a Bachelor’s level is much slower, which itself is a problem for them. The power of the student voice has been amplified.

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

GlobalHigherEd

Morshidi was the former Director-General of Higher Education Malaysia, and is now Director of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Facility (CTEF) based at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. Morshidi is also a Senior Research Fellow at the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN), Universiti Sains Malaysia.