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Stand Alone: 2015 – 2024: 10 years of changing higher education for estranged students

HEPI

Stand Alone has announced its closure and its higher education work is coming to an end. Quickly Stand Alone understood that ‘estrangement’ was unrecognised as a barrier to higher education. For Stand Alone the first step was to engage higher education institutions. And they called on Stand Alone to help.

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South Korea hosts 200,000 international students, hits 2015 target

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The data, released by the Korean Educational Development Institute , comes after an announcement by the country’s immigration service that Korea had passed 200,000 international students. The 205,167 international students enrolled in March 2023 means the country hit a target set in 2015 of hosting 200,000 foreign students by 2023.

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Embracing trauma-informed approaches in higher education: more than just a passing trend

HEPI

Prevalence in higher education A ground-breaking study conducted by the University of East London (UEL), has revealed significant insights into the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences among its undergraduate students. This is the basic underlying principle of a trauma-informed approach to education.

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A Record-Setting Year for Tennessee Promise

Inside Higher Ed

The Tennessee Higher Education Commission announced Monday that the Tennessee Promise program saw a record number of applicants—more than 670,000—from the Class of 2025. The program, launched in 2015, is a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for the state’s community college students.

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Marquette University Receives $1.25 Million to Bolster Prison Education Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Marquette University recently received over a million dollars from the Mellon Foundation to further energize and grow its prison education program. The first, the Educational Preparedness Program (EPP) , offers courses, academic support, and career-building resources to currently and formerly incarcerated (CFI) students.

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Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1960s

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Adam Matthews tracks higher education expansion through the Westminster parties' manifestos of the swinging sixties The post Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1960s appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1990s

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Debbie McVitty hunts for solutions in the manifestos of Major, Kinnock, Blair, and Ashdown The post Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1990s appeared first on Wonkhe. By the end of the eighties the architecture of HE as we know it was in place – but not the funding.