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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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Netherlands: call for higher education funding rethink in ongoing international debate

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However, UNL president, Pieter Duisenberg, called on government to introduce a funding system that is “less dependent on student numbers and market share” “The minister is currently exploring the future of education and science in the Netherlands (through the Toekomstverkenning onderwijs en wetenschap). Read it here.

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Kerala on mission to attract international students

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The initiative, first mooted by the Kerala State Higher Education Council , has been sanctioned by the state government to improve campus diversity and enable its students to work in a global society. But that has to change, according to Sabu Thomas, chairman, Trivandrum Engineering Science and Technology Research Park.

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Key Facts and Figures about the Graduate Technical workforce

HEPI

HEPI is running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. Recent data from the 2017/18 and 2018/19 academic years indicate that 4.8 per cent of all employed graduates who lived in the UK before enrolling in higher education held technical jobs. .

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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

Faculty Focus

The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is an HBCU and the only public institution of higher education in the Nation’s capital. VR-facilitated learning can offer students the opportunity to engage across the four phases of experiential learning, improving educational and clinical outcomes. 2018; Zhao et al.,

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

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From a cultural perspective, Jocson (2018) determined that ethnographic application supports racially and cultural and minority student learning. Implications for practice, research, and policy toward the future of education highlight the importance of connecting academics to workforce development (Jocson, 2018). El-Amin, A.

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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history.