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Weekend Reading: Imperfect information in higher education

HEPI

In this weekend long read, he discusses the history of marketisation in higher education and considers whether applicants have enough information to make informed judgements about where and what they study. Some 40% of undergraduate students might have chosen a different route, although only 6% would not have entered higher education.

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What is a ‘governing document’ in the University of Sussex?

SRHE

The Higher Education and Research Act (2017) s.3(8)(a) 3(8)(a) protects the autonomy of higher education providers, defining it as the freedom of English higher education providers within the law to conduct their day to day management in an effective and competent way. Alternative providers may not have Visitors.

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Restoring academic values: a key for university effectiveness

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by John Kenny This blog post is based on research into the effectiveness of higher education policy, published in Policy Reviews in Higher Education. The article, Effectiveness in higher education: What lessons can be learned after 40 years of neoliberal reform?

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Second-generation student borrowers

SRHE

by Ariane de Gayardon Since the 1980s, massification, policy shifts, and changing ideas about who benefits from higher education have led to the expansion of national student loan schemes globally. Their parents took out student loans to pay for their own higher education.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Since 2018, the graduation rate for Latine/x students has increased from 24% to 34%. Santiago and Sarita E. Morales, president of CSUSB.

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‘Anti-levelling up’: Tory former education secretary criticises PM’s university plan

The Guardian - Higher Education

Justine Greening says proposal to cut numbers on ‘low-value’ courses would affect less privileged students A Conservative former education secretary has criticised Rishi Sunak’s plans to limit access to university degrees in England, accusing him of “anti-levelling up in action” if he presses ahead with the policy.

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International students in Japan almost at pre-pandemic levels

The PIE News

. “The government’s efforts to restore the number of international students, which declined significantly due to the influence of Covid-19, are showing steady results,” Kuniko Takeda, deputy director of international affairs at Japan’s ministry of education, told The PIE News.