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Echoing Oz, Moody’s Downgrade Highlights a Tempest in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

higher education outlook is not merely a financial tremor; it serves as a chilling echo of the cyclone that swept Dorothy into the tumultuous Land of Oza "tempest of uncertainty" driven by rapid policy shifts and financial pressures, threatening the very foundations of higher education. higher 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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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.

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The Other Mothers in Higher Education

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This Black feminist framework seeped into the higher education space with the creation of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and expansion of Black student enrollment (Sturdivant, 2024). What other professional development models might help Other Mothers in higher education? link] Chance, N.

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Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1940s and 50s

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Debbie McVitty finds the seeds of an emerging consensus around the value of higher education expansion in party manifestos of the post-war years The post Higher education in General Election manifestos – the 1940s and 50s appeared first on Wonkhe.

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How higher education has showed up in General Election manifestos since 1945

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Kicking off a new series on what we can learn from how General Election manifestos have engaged with higher education, Adam Matthews reflects on the changing political fortunes of universities in the past 80 years The post How higher education has showed up in General Election manifestos since 1945 appeared first on Wonkhe.