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New Research Shows Benefits of Summer Pell

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. What we are finding here is pretty large,” said Liu, equivalent to hundreds of additional students staying in school and earning degrees.

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Surviving and thriving in HE professional services

SRHE

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. The resulting Association of University Administrators (AUA) became the Association of Higher Education Professionals (AHEP) in 2023.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. King was followed in 2016-2017 by Dr. Vivian L.

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Rebelling together against the myth of the lone creative genius: how arts-based pedagogies enhanced community learning

SRHE

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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Must do better:  making the Office for Students accountable

SRHE

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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Where should freedom of speech responsibilities in higher education lie?

SRHE

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. SRHE member GR Evans is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge.

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 aimed to enshrine the market with students as customers, and established the Office for Students. In sum, we seem to be edging closer to repeating the history of rail privatisation. It may not be Virgin territory, but is higher education on the right track?” (No