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Could Skilled Worker visa changes be a warning of what could be coming for international graduates in the UK?

The PIE News

Meeting growth targets By 2030, the UKs Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport estimates that the UK will need an additional one million tech professionals. The Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has hinted at a future review of visa policies to support key industries like AI, tech, and science.

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Being Genuine in the Classroom 

Faculty Focus

In The Art of Teaching , Jay Parini is quick to dismiss these questions, since authenticity itself is, he argues, yet another construction and [t]he notion of the true self is [] utterly false (2005, 59). Howard, PhD is academic chair of the English department on the Ammerman Campus at Suffolk County Community College. Hernandez, Paul.

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JAMES T. OVERTON

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Overton has been named chief of the police department at Delaware State University. This is his second time serving in the role, initially from 2005 to 2011. Overton James T. Overton holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Delaware State and a master’s degree in human resource management from Wilmington College in Delaware.

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Alarm at first fall in disadvantaged students in England reaching university

The Guardian - Higher Education

Figures released by the Department for Education show that 29% of students eligible for free school meals at 15 had progressed to university by the age of 19 in 2022-23, compared with 29.2% the previous year – the first time the rate has fallen since it was first measured in 2005-06. Continue reading.

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Q&A With Michelle Blesi, Author of Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Competencies

Today's Learner

Changing my focus to leadership, I then worked as a lead in the nursing/lab departments and as a Clinical Manager, prior to switching careers. In spring 2005, I completed the TES (Teacher Education Series) courses at the University of Minnesota, earning my teaching license in vocational education.

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$2.1M Grant Aims to Diversify Geosciences

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million grant to NCCU’s Department of Environmental, Earth and Geospatial Sciences (DEEGS) , as part of the more than $7 million shared among the universities, each attracting different student bodies. Gordana Vlahovic, chair of NCCU’s Department of Environmental, Earth and Geospatial Sciences.

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Mobility championed by UK ed minister

The PIE News

She nodded to the success of Heriot-Watt’s Dubai campus – the first campus of an overseas university to open in Dubai International Academic City in 2005 – noting that it began with 120 students and now has 4,000. “International education is popular. It makes us all richer.