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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This increase, while notable, also highlights the persistent challenges that remain in achieving true gender equity at the highest levels of academia. Her meteoric rise is particularly noteworthy given the historical barriers faced by women of color in academia. Epps of Temple University and Dr. Orinthia T.

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Invisible labour: visible activism

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Shining a light on invisible labour Despite the increase in womens participation in the workforce and in academia, there is still a significant gender pay gap and to compound the issue, this gap widened in 2021 and 2022 in 20/33 OECD countries. How we uncovered the invisible Our research has two stages.

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

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For instance, institutional autonomy and academic freedom are widely acknowledged as essential for the optimization of university operations in most African nations. Universities offer the necessary space for the exercise of academic freedom, and thus, institutional autonomy is necessary for its preservation.

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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 in philosophy.

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

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No University will invest in staffing, equipment, facilities, new programmes without a degree of certainty. Choice matters, and universities should be subject to market forces. Acting rationally, selecting universities rushed to recruit to low-cost subjects, distorting both provision and geography. Re-introduce a ‘soft’ cap.

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Changing the Face of Nursing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the summer of 2014, Crystal Jackson was working as a manager of nurse education in Ferguson, Missouri. This paucity is mirrored in academia, where only 19.2% Rolanda Johnson, associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Such nurses represent just 19.4% 14-18 at Vanderbilt.

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

HEPI

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. As the rain gradually ruined my suit, I tried to work out whether the university sector is right to adopt this mission-based language. What can we do for you?’,

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