Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom McMillan Cottom is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill and a senior principal researcher at UNC’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. She is also a columnist for the New York Times, an award-winning author, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow.

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HEPI

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

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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The PIE News

JULY 5, 2024

“There are certainly UK universities that are very close to announcing their India branch campuses,” some being months or even “weeks away”, Avantika Tomar, partner at EY Parthenon Education Practice told delegates of India Week’s Education Innovation conference on July 3.

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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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SRHE

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. Some of these deliver higher education in partnership with other providers which have their own degree-awarding powers, relying on them to provide their students with degrees.

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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

But it turns out that employers’ own hiring platforms and third-party intermediaries often act as barriers to matching the right talent to the right positions, according to a recent Northeastern University report. Most employers today require job candidates to apply online. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

German universities can expect international first-year students to offset stagnating or even further declining numbers of first semester German students by 2026, new analysis has suggested. The development of total first-year students at German universities since the 2011/12 peak.

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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

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. Katherine Friend is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Nottingham Trent University.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by John Raftery, Principal of John Raftery and Associates and former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Wolverhampton and London Metropolitan University. English universities are, by many measures, consistently among the very best in the world, outperforming most if not all other competitors.

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HEPI

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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HEPI

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

With September marking the beginning of the new academic year, most students will now be settled into their accommodation for the year and beginning their studies at universities across the country. British students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds will be particularly affected, and may be priced out of attending university altogether.

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HEPI

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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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Transfer students make up less than 10 percent of the population at selective universities, and less than six percent at highly selective public institutions. The Institute for Higher Education Policy. 2017, updated 2021). The Institute for Higher Education Policy. American Council on Education.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

“Employers say, ‘It’s great that this individual has these skills, but we’ll ask our own questions to verify the learner’s knowledge,’” Kyle Albert, assistant research professor at the George Washington University Institute of Public Policy, said. “It’s a trust-but-verify situation.”

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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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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

by Michael Shattock From decentralised to centralised Until 1919 UK universities, except Oxbridge and Durham, were primarily civic institutions created by wealthy citizens and governed by councils strongly represented by the founders and by local authorities and the local industrial community.

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HEPI

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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ACPA

MARCH 6, 2023

We’re excited to highlight the scholarship of Dr. Sharla Berry , Assistant Professor in the Center for Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness (CEEE) at California State University, Long Beach. I found more support in communications and sociology, but I was in an Education Policy Ph.D. Online Learning , 21 (2), n2.

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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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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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SRHE

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. We spoke to founders, directors, senior leadership team members and those involved in setting up a new university and developing the first programmes.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

by Kat Emms For two years Edge Foundation has been drawing together lessons from past education policies. The polytechnics policy was based on an economic need to equip the workforce with the vocational, professional and industrially-based expertise it required, particularly in the face of international competition.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We committed to a second phase of the project (HS2) through legislation in the Higher Education and Research Act in 2017. Universities are overcrowded, because too many students want to be in higher education. Universities are overcrowded, because too many students want to be in higher education.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Yet this group has attracted limited considerations from researchers and policy-makers alike. Against this background, our study sought to explore the experiences of ancillary staff working in UK universities and their contribution to the higher education sector. Lucie Wheeler is a Research Assistant in education.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2023

If it decides a provider ‘must do better’ in meeting its ‘outcomes’ requirements, the Office for Students can remove it from its Register, take away its degree-awarding powers and its university title or impose a monetary penalty, with the provider paying the costs of its investigation, with internal appeal only against the scale of the costs.

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SRHE

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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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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

"UCLA Pummeled Over Adjunct Job Without Pay:" This headline largely speaks for itself: the University of California, Los Angeles, last spring announced its desire to hire an "assistant adjunct professor on a without salary basis. .' " That question loomed over federal higher education policy for much of 2022.

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SRHE

APRIL 17, 2024

In 2024 fifty or more universities have declared or are likely to declare redundancies , as their funding position becomes ever more perilous. According to Mark Corver of DataHE: “… universities have lost, in real terms, around a third of their income since 2012. Most of that has happened recently.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The simple truth is that the average student leaves university with £45,800 of debt and if they have nothing to show for it then we have failed them” (Hansard, 2021). by Peter Wolstencroft, Elizabeth Whitfield and Track Dinning.

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SRHE

MARCH 14, 2023

Kathleen Stock, a Professor at the University of Sussex, faced demands from campaigners that the University should dismiss her for her alleged transphobia. The question must be whether the University could have done more to protect her against the ‘adverse consequences’ she undoubtedly faced. The University did something.

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SRHE

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. It may not be Virgin territory, but is higher education on the right track?” (No No 26 (‘ May in October: a climate change for HE? ’) asked: would the new PM mean changes to HE policy?

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HEPI

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. Lessons from the past.

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The PIE News

JUNE 26, 2023

The Coimbra Group’s annual conference at the University of Cologne from May 31 to June 2 this year demonstrated the organisation’s ethos of global co-operation. Founded in 1985, the group comprises 41 European, high-ranking, comprehensive, civic universities.

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