Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. Today, she is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.

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SRHE

JANUARY 22, 2025

As universities have new developed pathways to promotion ( e.g. education or impact), citizenship has become less important, yet it is critical work that still needs to be done. Her research interests are primarily authentic assessments, digital education and retail as a place of community.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In retrospect, the Institute of Education, when it was a more-or-less autonomous college of the University of London, was an almost-nearly-perfect university institution. As the student concerned went on, with a little help from us, to become a PVC in a major university, I think you might say that we called it right.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. 4) I have had the opportunity to redesign the institutional research function at both community colleges and at a public regional university.

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HEPI

APRIL 12, 2025

Joseph Morrison-Howe is an undergraduate Economics student at the University of Nottingham. In this weekend long read, he discusses the history of marketisation in higher education and considers whether applicants have enough information to make informed judgements about where and what they study.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book brings together 55 different authors – including academics, a vice-chancellor and numerous education policy experts (such as Sam Freedman, Lord Lucas, Jonathan Simons , Ann Mroz and Tom Richmond). Another head, Jesse Elzinga, kicks out at universities’ entry procedures for encouraging depth over breadth.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Janine Davidson, president of Metropolitan State University of Denver, said that given the state’s declining higher ed enrollment, shortage of teachers and health-care workers , and a budget crisis caused by decades of state disinvestment , placing a numeric value on degree programs seems like a low priority.

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SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

The irritations researchers experience when working with secondary data are exemplified in looking at the REF 2021 results and comparing with 2014. I will first give the summary of results, set alongside those from 2014, against advice, but one role of the REF is to demonstrate more and better research. Four are fitted on to one page.

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SRHE

JULY 12, 2024

While this may have led to a certain lack of interaction and integration initially ( Macfarlane, 2012 ; Tight, 2014 ), the trend towards interdisciplinary scholarship can bring these different perspectives together in creative ways.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Must do Better says it ‘should improve its adherence to best regulatory practice through closer alignment with the Regulators’ Code’ dating from 2014. It should do so ‘with respect to how it implements its policies and procedures, as well as how it develops them’. The OfS is a regulator. How badly is the Office for Students failing?

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SRHE

MAY 11, 2023

The increased vibrancy of higher education scholarship was also noted within the final report for the Education unit of assessment , which explicitly remarked on the growth in this area since REF 2014. This blogpost is based on an article that has recently been published in the British Journal of Educational Studies.

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HEPI

MARCH 29, 2025

This lecture was originally delivered by the Rt Hon John Denham MP, former Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills in Gordon Brown’s Government. He gave this lecture from Opposition in January 2014. I want to change the terms of the debate, not present a detailed plan for university education.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 21, 2023

The latest analysis compiled by the Higher Education Policy Institute shows that in 2023, 65 world leaders are graduates of US higher education institutions, a decline of two on last year’s figures. Australian leader Anthony Albanese is a graduate of the University of Sydney.

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I jumped at the chance to speak to London Higher in part because I am an alumnus of our host institution, having studied here at the end of the last century when Queen Mary University of London / QMUL was known as QMWC or Queen Mary and Westfield College. I am also lucky to be an Honorary Fellow of this institution.

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SRHE

APRIL 17, 2024

Since he left in 2014 the political game-playing has sadly degenerated, becoming ever more disconnected from the real issues facing the HE sector. In 2024 fifty or more universities have declared or are likely to declare redundancies , as their funding position becomes ever more perilous. Most of that has happened recently.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

suggesting that universities should take their share of responsibility for the plight of HE: For many of our universities the “student experience” has become the organising concept, the fount of a thousand strategic priorities and key performance indicators. (No 4 The English experiment ). No 13 On the right track? ).

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GlobalHigherEd

JANUARY 14, 2018

Morshidi was the former Director-General of Higher Education Malaysia, and is now Director of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Facility (CTEF) based at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. Morshidi is also a Senior Research Fellow at the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN), Universiti Sains Malaysia.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: As recently as 2015, the University of Phoenix enrolled more than 400,000 learners, making it not only the center of the for-profit higher education universe but the biggest university in the United States by far. Julie, your early thoughts on what the larger implications are for the for-profit sector?

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Edward Choi and Young Jae Kim South Korea has become an attractive destination for international students, boasting a strong higher education system with internationally recognised universities. Many colleges have removed words like technical or vocational from their names and are now called universities in both Korean and English.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Nonetheless, I nervously went on to remind him that we do not limit the number of people who can benefit from the compulsory phase of education (schooling) and there seemed to be no clear rationale for standing in the way of universities wanting to recruit willing and able students either.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

by Erika Kalocsányiová and Rania Hassan Promoting sustainability literacy in higher education is crucial for deepening students’ pro-environmental behaviour and mindset ( Buckler & Creech, 2014 ; UNESCO, 1997 ), while also fostering social transformation by embedding sustainability at the core of the student experience.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Universities on Fire. Johns Hopkins University Press. The Road Ahead for America's Colleges & Universities. Oxford University Press. Harvard University Press. University of Chicago Press. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities. Creating the Market University.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Image: Representative Virginia Foxx is planning to leverage the decline in public perception of higher education to usher in a new era of stronger accountability for the nation’s colleges and universities in her role as chairwoman of the House education committee.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A context within which Michael Gove, an early adopter, was able to label a raft of educational luminaries the blob (see Garner, 2014 ). Whilst this is/might be irritating and socially disabling, I want to argue that it is also both deleterious to educational research and that its roots lie some 250 years ago.

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