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Open universities: between radical promise and market reality

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Yet, as higher education is increasingly reshaped by market logics, can open universities still claim to be engines of social progress, or have they become institutions that now reproduce the very inequalities they sought to dismantle? This struggle over education is central to the survival of democracy.

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General election 2024: Higher education fees and funding

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The logic of fees Whether we like it or not, there is one higher education issue that tends to bestride all the others at general elections, and that is tuition fees. Moreover, higher education finance is a devolved matter. The SNP have been re-elected more than once since, each time promising to keep the policy in place.

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The Value of Higher Education in Developed Economies

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Mathias Cormann, Secretary General of the OECD, on the value of higher education in developed countries. Never mind that the 50% target he refers to relates to tertiary education, I am certain he is not alone in believing that too many people go to university. In 1998, 20% of adults in the OECD had a tertiary education.

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Parnell Named President of NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Amelia Parnell, vice president for research and policy at NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education was named the organization’s president. From 2005 through 2012, she served as education policy analyst for the Florida Legislature. “Dr.

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The health of higher education studies – cause for optimism?

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By Rachel Brooks How healthy is the area of higher education studies? Scholars have noted: the frequent absence of theory and short-term focus of such research ; the proximity of researchers to policy-makers which, it is argued, can make critical distance hard to achieve ; and the fragmentation of the field.

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Regional higher education partnerships: the Oxford to Cambridge ARC

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1] Similar desiderata are explored in a recent Report of the Higher Education Policy Institute on the future of the Oxford to Cambridge Arc in the context of the regional working together of the other local universities. A provider of higher education may see itself as a member of a group in ways remote from the region.

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Aligning quality for all the world to see

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It articulates the principles of UK higher education for securing academic standards and assuring and enhancing quality. As with the ownership and provenance of the UK Quality Code, the ESG is itself owned by the sector stakeholders of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The previous edition was published in 2018.