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Open universities: between radical promise and market reality

SRHE

by Ourania Filippakou Open universities have long symbolised a radical departure from the exclusivity of conventional universities. Open universities, once heralded as radical interventions in knowledge production, now find themselves entangled in these struggles. This question is not merely academic; it is profoundly political.

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Honoring Excellence in Urban Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jhaneil Thompson After graduating from high school, Thompson enrolled in a community college and when it was time for her to continue her education at a four-year-institution, it was Florida A&M University (FAMU) that welcomed her right from the start, even before she officially enrolled in fall of 2019.

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What next for int’l education after South Korea’s political crisis?

The PIE News

This article examines how the political crisis has disrupted international higher education in South Korea, focusing on five key areas: reputational damage, impact on students from Asia and the Global South, rising xenophobia, heightened student anxiety, and the sidelining of education policy.

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The Other Mothers in Higher Education

ACPA

This Black feminist framework seeped into the higher education space with the creation of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and expansion of Black student enrollment (Sturdivant, 2024). Additionally, it is important to note that Other Mothers as educational mentors does not mean they have to be women.

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Another year, another teacher supply crisis…

HEPI

Today on the HEPI blog, John Cater revisits a quarter-century of teacher education policy to consider how we can solve the teacher supply crisis – read on below. Dr. John Cater was Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University from 1993-2025 and member of the Board of the Teacher Training Agency and its successor body from 1999-2006.

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The lie of the land in higher education policy as the 2022/23 academic year draws to a close – By Nick Hillman

HEPI

This blog is an extract from a speech that the Director of HEPI, Nick Hillman, recently made to the Board of Sheffield Hallam University. I started my remarks then by noting the level of flux in higher education policy. We were on our third Universities Minister in three years, which seemed a lot at the time.

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Student voters to hold the balance of power in 50 marginal constituencies in the 2024 General Election

HEPI

New research from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the National Union of Students (NUS) shows the potential impact of student voters in the 2024 general election. The report includes a Foreword from Chloe Field, Vice President for Higher Education at the NUS. All of these were held by the Conservatives in 2019.

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