Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

McMillan Cottom’s dissertation research at Emory explored for-profit colleges, which led to her first book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy, which published in 2017 and catapulted her onto the national scene. “I The sociology-trained scholar now asks questions like, “Where's the power?”

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educational policy is a focus on using evidence, or data, to inform decisions about institutional and educator quality, budgetary decisions, and what and how to teach students” (3). Performance funding for higher education: Do financial incentives impact college completions? Educational Policy, 27 (4), 645-675.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

“Black kids are underrepresented in gifted services and overrepresented in special education services,” said report co-author Dr. Cassandra Hart, an associate professor of education policy at UC Davis. Most teachers are not Black.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

“There’s valuable educational and skill information hiding in plain sight with regard to some of these candidates,” said Sean Gallagher, executive professor of educational policy at Northeastern University and a co-author of the study. “Why do these systems not call for more detailed information?

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The PIE News

JULY 5, 2024

The stage was set for greater overseas investment by India’s New Education Policy 2020 , “India’s declaration to the world that ‘we’re open’” according to Tomar. Given that travelling overseas for education is not possible for the vast majority, India offers huge potential for TNE enrolments.

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MARCH 7, 2025

Educators across schools and departments in HEIs are attempting to resist the current educational practice which promotes students as consumers and centres our students as active producers in their own learning.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

It’s taken me almost 20 years but, over the summer, I eventually got around to reading a book I’ve been wanting to read on higher education policy since I started working in the area over 15 years ago: University to Uni – The Politics of Higher Education since 1944 by Robert Stevens.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Janelle Scott, a professor in the School of Education and African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. and Mary Catherine Birgeneau Distinguished Chair in Educational Disparities, and is the chair of the Race, Diversity, and Educational Policy Cluster of the Othering and Belonging Institute.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

.” One federal state, Baden-Württemberg, introduced fees for non-EU students in 2017/18 , but has already announced the fees will be abolished in the next months. TU München in Bavaria said it would begin charging non-EU students fees from the 2024/25 winter semester.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

As the research subjects, we are comprised of female academics from the same department across international campuses, reflecting on our experiences with non-promotable tasks, emotional dissonance, mental load, and burnout ( Grandey, 2013 ; Lapadat, 2017 ; Babcock et al , 2022 ).

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NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The basic idea on fees and funding in the Dearing report of a fee that would not be differentiated by subject, for example, but which would cover one-quarter of the average cost of higher education tuition backed by an income-contingent loan has actually proved remarkably durable. Here we are, 25 years later, still talking about it.

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MARCH 19, 2025

Government-defined Levels of higher education include Levels 4 and 5, placing degrees at Level 6, with postgraduate Masters at 7 and doctorates at 8.

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The Institute for Higher Education Policy. 2017, updated 2021). The most important door that will ever open: Realizing the mission of higher education through equitable admission policies. The Institute for Higher Education Policy. Race and ethnicity in higher education: A status report.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Building on a previous blog post by the Higher Education Policy Institute, this post seeks to explore the issues with the current Bill for the student accommodation sector – and why parity between purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and the private student rental sector is needed.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Pat Tissington , Academic Director (Employability and Skills) at the University of Warwick and Dr Pat Mertova , Consultant in Higher Education and Policy at the Associates in Higher Education Policy, Development and Quality (AHEPDQ).

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

“It has been the desire of many entrepreneurs, foundations and policy leaders that microcredentials will become the substitute for expensive degrees,” Sean Gallagher, executive professor of educational policy at Northeastern University, said.

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MARCH 4, 2024

There has been a decrease in the number of institutions awarded Gold, 20% compared to 35% in 2017, but this is subject to change as ‘pending’ outcomes are finalised. A 2018 survey by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) found that 73% of students said that the TEF had influenced their decision of where to study.

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MARCH 6, 2023

Frankly, a lot of academics, especially in the field of education, were having trouble seeing the overlap between BIPOC students, tech, and media cultures. I found more support in communications and sociology, but I was in an Education Policy Ph.D. I switched my focus to online learning in higher education, and here we are!

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 5, 2023

Warning comes after party ditched its promise to abolish university tuition fees in England UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer has been warned that he has “no easy options” over student loans and higher education financing, after the Labour leader’s decision to scrap an earlier policy of abolishing tuition fees in England.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

In 2017-18 it admitted only 14% of its home students from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority region, much of which would be classified as economically deprived. In 2017-18 only 34% of its graduates took employment in the region and this figure would have been boosted by the graduate deposit from a large medical school.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Amy Costa, president of the Board of Governors, said she wants someone who is “student focused and centered” and will continue implementing the Vision for Success , a strategic plan instituted by Oakley to close equity gaps and increase transfer and graduation rates and adopted by the system in 2017.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Many institutions claim maintenance of rigor, curricular control or accreditation standards, but the true question at play is whether the institution embraces a transfer-receptive culture ( Taylor and Jain 2017 ). Jeff Weber is an AACRAO member with more than 30 years of experience in higher education policy and research.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

by Katherine Emms The 2017 Higher Education and Research Act (HERA) enabled new and innovative HE providers to enter and establish themselves, with the aim of diversifying the HE sector. The process from registering as a HE provider to gaining DAPs was often seen as a slow and, for some, complicated process.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

In 2012 the fee was increased to £9000 and in 2017 to £9250. The Dearing report in 1997 had acknowledged that both state and individuals benefit from higher education and both should bear some of the cost and risk, (as should employers in Dearing’s view). As fees from students went up, Government funding to universities went down.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

by Kat Emms For two years Edge Foundation has been drawing together lessons from past education policies. In the 1960s/1970s the polytechnics tackled skill shortages facing many sectors in the UK economy; in 2017 Degree Apprenticeships (DAs) were established for similar reasons.

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MAY 11, 2023

Alongside this, new higher education journals have emerged over recent years. Policy Reviews in Higher Education , for example, was launched in 2017, with the remit of publishing articles that engage explicitly with topical policy questions and significant areas of higher education policy development.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This was often mentioned spontaneously by interviewees, in contrast with the research we have conducted on other categories of staff in the HE sector, including as part of a previous SRHE award (Moreau and Robertson, 2017 , 2019 ).

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

We committed to a second phase of the project (HS2) through legislation in the Higher Education and Research Act in 2017. The first part of this (HS1) was achieved some years ago through investment in infrastructure connecting the UK with the rest of Europe. But now we need to change course.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Higher Education and Research Act (2017) depends heavily on the belief that, with the block grant shrunk to vanishing point for teaching and tuition fees a chief source of university income, HEFCE’s allocation of a block grant in the capacity of a buffer between Government and providers would no longer be enough.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 21, 2023

The UK is closing its gap with the US in the latest Soft-Power Index, with the latter retaining top spot having educated 65 world leaders. Since 2017, the last year when the UK boasted having the most serving world leaders as alumni of any country in the world, the US has extended its lead every year after overtaking the UK in 2018.

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SRHE

APRIL 17, 2024

For most of the Coalition period the Universities Minister was David (now Lord) Willetts, who was perhaps the main architect of the Higher Education and Research Act (HERA) 2017, eventually steered into law by Jo (now Lord) Johnson. HERA legislated for the HE ‘market’ and created a new regulator, the Office for Students (OfS).

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A 2017 essay from Derek Bok, Harvard University's former president, offered advice on how to improve the quality of higher education. " That question loomed over federal higher education policy for much of 2022. " Top Reads from Earlier Years. "What Will Biden Do on Loans?:"

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Whilst the datafication of education (Stevenson, 2017) is not a new concept, the new OfS guidelines are likely to exacerbate this approach, indeed it can be seen as a formalisation of an ongoing process. Stevenson, H (2017) ‘The “Datafication” of Teaching: Can Teachers Speak Back to the Numbers?’ 2017.1349492.

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MARCH 14, 2023

The word ‘research’ appears in the Bill only as part of the title of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 and a few times in connection with checks on overseas funding for research. The vandalising of the Cambridge Departmental door was prompted by remarks on the value of research in areas in dispute.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 aimed to enshrine the market with students as customers, and established the Office for Students. No 27 Post-truth and the Higher Education and Research Bill ). In 2017 amid political ferment we asked What’s wrong with higher education management? (No

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NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has 20 years’ experience in education policy research. The Labour Party is ahead in the polls and has been since December 2021.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Banks - The father of multicultural education: In these troubling anti-EDI times. Journal of Education Policy, 25 (2), 253-276. The racial nexus between social disaster, housing wealth, and public policy. Are Black children disproportionately overrepresented in special education? Gillborn, D. and expanded).

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