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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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Effect of Institutional Autonomy on Academic Freedom in Higher Education Institutions in Ghana

SRHE

By Mohammed Bashiru and Professor Cai Yonghong Introduction The idea of institutional autonomy in higher education institutions (HEIs) naturally comes up when discussing academic freedom. How does institutional autonomy influence academic freedom in higher education institutions in Ghana?

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Walking down the road to Kingdom Come: some steps away from a Higher Education Funding Crisis?

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John Cater is the longest-serving Vice-Chancellor in UK higher education, having been in post since 1993. And every cost in higher education has increased, except the tuition fee. If we do not have a sustainable sector by the end of this Parliament, for higher education the next decade could be cataclysmic.

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Invisible labour: visible activism

SRHE

We concluded that this form of emotional labour was a form of wife work, work that is essential to the running of the home (aka Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)) yet often undervalued and the person carries the mental load. How we uncovered the invisible Our research has two stages.

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We wanted Here Comes the Sun, but we got Rain*: A view from Liverpool

HEPI

Like many others with an interest in higher education policy, HEPI Director Nick Hillman swung by Liverpool for a sojourn at the Labour Party Conference. I first attended the Labour Party Conference back in 2014, when the Coalition were in charge and the left were a long way from retaking power at Westminster. Watch this space.

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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women comprise the majority of English majors – they earned nearly 69% of all English bachelor’s degrees in 2014 – but are generally paid less, according to the report. It is also valuable to get input from people outside of academia, such as from career services centers, about employment trends, the report noted. “[The

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The Components of the Imagination: Practical Applications of an Innovative but Underused Tool 

Faculty Focus

Cropley’s (2014, 634) analysis of how teachers view creativity, he found that educators’ “evocation of ‘more creativity’ has been limited to rhetorical flourishes in policy documents and/or relegated to the borderlands of the visual and performing arts.” Neglect of Creativity in Education: A Moral Issue.”