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Lumina Reports Highest Recorded Post-High School Educational Attainment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Post-high school educational attainment in the U.S. According to the report, the figure of post-high school educational attainment of Americans ages 25 to 64 has increased from 37.9% since 2009. When it comes to race and ethnicity, educational attainment has approved improved across all groups. in 2008 to 54.9%

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After the Election We’ll Need a Strong System of Higher Education More Than Ever

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jamie Merisotis That progress tends to get lost, however, amid legitimate concerns about the cost of education and its efficacy in preparing students for jobs. We get it: Higher education must do better. In those and countless other areas, solutions are being incubated right now on America’s college campuses.

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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

W Kim Lee and Dr. Carolyn Stefanco hen the American Council on Education launched its Moving the Needle initiative over a decade ago to raise awareness about gender parity in higher education or lack thereof only 23% of college presidents or chancellors were women. in the majority white college town in the Mountain region.

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See which 9 schools are the latest to make college free

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It marks the latest step higher education leaders have taken to answer growing criticisms about affordability. At $141 million this fiscal year, Carnegie Mellon has increased its investment in undergraduate financial aid by 86% since 2009.

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International students support 378,000 US jobs

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. “The annual increase in economic activity is about half of what it was the year before, signalling that the pent-up demand for a US education following the pandemic is subsiding. Meanwhile, competition for the world’s best and brightest is increasing.”

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Australia’s investment in India continues as TNE interest grows

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In addition to Wollongong and Deakin universities setting up their campuses in GIFT City, and the University of Melbourne opening up a global centre in Delhi, Australia is expected to continue promoting transnational education in India. Australian education has always remained a quality premium offering.

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Indian international students in the U.S. outnumber Chinese for the first time in 15 years

University Business

For more than a decade, Chinese students have flocked to the United States, drawn by the prestige of an overseas education and the glamor of the American Dream. Education consultancies flourished across China, with parents paying big bucks for tutors and classes that promised to send their children abroad. Read more at CNN.