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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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5 Hip-Hop Quotes to Inspire College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

5. Ye ("Last Call”, 2004) “I ain't play the hand I was dealt, I changed my cards. Na’eem Allen-Stills is an incoming doctoral student in the University of Maryland’s Higher Education, Student Affairs and International Education Policy program. I prayed to the skies and I changed my stars.”

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Australia’s NUHEPs: shonks and crooks – or an invaluable cradle of innovation?

The PIE News

A pioneering model NUHEPs have established and nurtured new markets and models for Australian education, pioneering the pathways and trimester models of delivery that were commonplace among this category a decade before wider adoption by the universities. These institutions pre-date the creation of the world-leading ESOS Act.

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The health of higher education studies – cause for optimism?

SRHE

Number of ESRC and AHRC grants awarded by ESRC and AHRC, with higher education or school in title, 2006-2022, by date of award* Source: UKRI Gateway to Research database *The data show only the date of the award, not the years over which the award was spent.

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WEEKEND READING: 25 years on from the Dearing report, have we kept its spirit alive?

HEPI

The basic idea on fees and funding in the Dearing report of a fee that would not be differentiated by subject, for example, but which would cover one-quarter of the average cost of higher education tuition backed by an income-contingent loan has actually proved remarkably durable. Here we are, 25 years later, still talking about it.

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Ivy League to Become Collegiate Outlier in Top Women Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They are without a doubt powerhouses in their field and have proven themselves as effective, innovative leaders,” said Dr. Taylor Odle, assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I All except one have been coed at the undergraduate level since the 1970s or 1980s.

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Tug-of-War: Bought vs. Brought Credit

Inside Higher Ed

For outsiders, this translates into strict transfer policies and fewer resources dedicated to the transfer process, resulting in limited articulations, slow credit evaluations and scattered or absent prior-learning policies for learners other than the military.

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