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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Named Provost at Western Michigan University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It is also unprecedented to have an educational policy expert leading as a provost at a major research institution that boasts a student population of about 24,000. “We We knew when we recruited Dr. Vasquez Helig to the faculty at University of Texas at Austin in 2006 that he was a rising academic star,” said Dr. Gregory J.

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Will English lose its position as the global lingua franca?

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How will any changes to the way English is used impact education policies? Written with my British Council colleagues, Mike Solly and Steve Copeland, the book builds on the 1997 and 2006 seminal work by British linguist David Graddol.

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

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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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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

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educational policy is a focus on using evidence, or data, to inform decisions about institutional and educator quality, budgetary decisions, and what and how to teach students” (3). Called to account: Analyzing the origins and spread of state performance-accountability policies for higher education. De Lourdes.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. Scott also holds the Robert J. Dr. Joyce E. King, the Benjamin E.

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Freedom of speech, lifts, and the importance of terminology

HEPI

As the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill returns to Parliament today, HEPI is running two blogs on the issue. Boggs, University Clerk at Kingston University and Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPs). This blog was kindly contributed by Andrew.

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What do students think about value for money?

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In England, undergraduate fees of £1000 were introduced more than 20 years ago, raised to £3000 in 2006, and to £9000 more than ten years ago. Kristina’s research interests are in higher education policy, mainly in relation to student finance, student choices, and marketisation. Email: k.gruzdeva@bham.ac.uk.