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Dubai’s growing student population fuels TNE expansion

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By 2040, were anticipating that we will more than double enrolment in higher education, Nitesh Sughnani, director of university ratings at Dubais Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) told delegates. Supply is growing exponentially, and the education sector has to respond, said Sughnani.

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Indispensable Instructional Designers at Professional Schools 

Faculty Focus

There are many ways to design a course in higher education, but why do it alone? As the educational landscape continues to evolve, the role of an instructional designer (ID) has become necessary. Instructional designers empower faculty to focus once again on teaching, content, and their students.

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Study: Latino Students Use Practical Strategies to Finance College Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Latino students are making pragmatic financial choices to pay for their education, and institutions are increasingly responding with tailored support, according to a comprehensive new report released today by Excelencia in Education. Santiago, CEO, and Sarita E.

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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

Data has become the cornerstone of decision-making and institutional strategy in today’s higher education landscape. From tracking retention rates to measuring academic performance, data offers a clear, quantifiable view of how students and institutions are progressing. Simply put, data is not enough.

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Will GenAI narrow or widen the digital divide in higher education?

SRHE

by Lei Fang and Xue Zhou This blog is based on our recent publication: Zhou, X, Fang, L, & Rajaram, K (2025) Exploring the digital divide among students of diverse demographic backgrounds: a survey of UK undergraduates Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching , 8(1). The core issue lies not in the absence of support, but in its uptake.

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CUNY’s Black Male Initiative Marks 20 Years of Success Amid National DEI Pushbacks

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Black Male Initiative (BMI) officially began in 2005, when the New York City Council approved funding for BMI throughout the whole of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, 25 institutions in total. As a student, [the program] did help. Since then, the program has spread to all but one CUNY campus. Ian James got his start.

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Open universities: between radical promise and market reality

SRHE

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.