The Roots of Erasure Legislation in Education Policy
Academe Blog
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
BY LOGAN JOHNSON In 2020, state bans on teaching “divisive concepts” in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education began sweeping our nation.
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Riding India’s NEP 2020: there’s never been a better time for institutional partnerships
The PIE News
JANUARY 15, 2024
On the heels of India’s National Education Policy 2020, a recent think tank run by the government of India highlights the country’s dedication to establishing the region as a leading global hub of education with an emphasis on continued internationalisation and collaboration with foreign institutions.
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Fostering Upward Mobility through Low-Cost Certification: A Practical Guide for Higher Education
Faculty Focus
JULY 14, 2024
The development of programs that not only meet the needs of working people but also guarantee their upward mobility through accessible, affordable routes is essential in the effort to improve the quality of education and assist different learners. OER and No/Low-Cost Textbooks: The program makes significant use of both.
Fostering Upward Mobility through Low-Cost Certification: A Practical Guide for Higher Education
Faculty Focus
JULY 14, 2024
The development of programs that not only meet the needs of working people but also guarantee their upward mobility through accessible, affordable routes is essential in the effort to improve the quality of education and assist different learners. OER and No/Low-Cost Textbooks: The program makes significant use of both.
Johns Hopkins University in talks to establish India campus
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
With the National Education Policy , introduced in 2020, promoting transnational education to establish India as a global hub of education, efforts are being made to attract international universities to the South Asian country. The delegation actively discussed establishing an offshore JHU campus in India.”
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Ep.93: Is For-Profit Higher Education on Its Last Legs?
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Does the possible sale of the University of Phoenix to a public university system signal the demise of the for-profit higher education sector that Phoenix once epitomized?
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Gaps in sustainability literacy in non-STEM higher education programmes
SRHE
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
by Erika Kalocsányiová and Rania Hassan Promoting sustainability literacy in higher education is crucial for deepening students’ pro-environmental behaviour and mindset ( Buckler & Creech, 2014 ; UNESCO, 1997 ), while also fostering social transformation by embedding sustainability at the core of the student experience.
India an international education “sweet spot” until 2050s
The PIE News
APRIL 25, 2023
Expect disruption and new modes of innovative education but now is the time for international education providers to go to India, was the clear message at the Acumen Global Gateway conference in Delhi. The current model of international education for India needs to change… The one-way traffic needs to change,” he said.
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The Importance of Listening to Student Needs Emphasized at Department of Education Summit
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 24, 2024
Department of Education (ED) and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) held the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit: Holistic Advising and Wraparound Services in Washington, D.C. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A. As of 2020, Johns Hopkins expanded this to a year-long program.
How can T Levels help more students be best prepared for higher education?
HEPI
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
A new Labour government brings higher education policy into a new focus, both as a reflection of long-standing ideas and a look at what changes are to come. Many NCFE learners have seen first-hand how the unique preparation afforded by T Levels can lay exceptional foundations for progressing to higher education.
India anticipates incoming expansion of British TNE
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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Updated educational attainment data show progress and gaps
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Census Bureau data and data from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. The project was paused in 2020 because of data-collection challenges during the pandemic. All states now have an educational attainment rate of above 40 percent, and 39 states, plus D.C. ” The recent data show 53.7
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University of Southampton awarded licence to establish India campus
The PIE News
AUGUST 29, 2024
. “Our intention is to establish a campus that delivers social value and economic impact to India and the university by bringing together Southampton’s world class activities in education, research, and knowledge exchange and enterprise, with all the talent of the rising global superpower that is India.”
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Creative arts courses at English universities face funding cut
The Guardian - Higher Education
APRIL 4, 2024
Education secretary Gillian Keegan will also squeeze funding for programmes to widen access to higher education Ministers will cut funding for performing and creative arts courses at English universities next year, which sector leaders say will further damage the country’s cultural industries. Continue reading.
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Dr. KerryAnn O’Meara Named VP for Academic Affairs at Teachers College, Columbia University
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 8, 2023
Dr. KerryAnn O’Meara O’Meara is currently professor of higher education, a distinguished scholar teacher, and special assistant to the provost for strategic initiative at University of Maryland (UMD). in higher education from Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in education policy at the University of Maryland.
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Doing the dirty work of academia? Ancillary staff in higher education
SRHE
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
by Marie-Pierre Moreau and Lucie Wheeler Cleaning, catering and security staff fulfil an important function in maintaining and enhancing the social and material environment of higher education (HE). Yet this group has attracted limited considerations from researchers and policy-makers alike. She blogs here.
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Was 2022 a bumper year for books about education?
HEPI
JANUARY 2, 2023
As HEPI has itself found out in the past , it is generally a thankless task to write about the educational underachievement of boys but it is an important issue nonetheless. Maybe not a new Robbins report but something close. And if the government won’t do it, universities should.’ As an examiner might say, it “must do better”.
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UGC chair reveals committee to review Indian entrance exam irregularities
The PIE News
JULY 9, 2024
Focusing on the National Education Policy 2020’s promise to build accessible and quality education in India, the UGC is set to train over 1.5 Presently, we have launched a two-week online capacity-building programme for faculty members that have been meticulously designed in the themes of NEP 2020,” Kumar told The PIE. “It
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International graduates’ plans derailed by skilled worker visa change
The PIE News
DECEMBER 14, 2023
The changes will come into effect in Spring 2024, with more details of the policies expected to be announced in the coming months. Research from the Higher Education Policy Institute released earlier this year found only 3% of employers had used the route and more than half weren’t aware of its existence.
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UK: £9bn in tuition from non-EU in 2021/22
The PIE News
APRIL 28, 2023
The latest figure is an unsurprising drop from the £1.39bn EU students paid in fees in 2020/21. By 2030, the UK’s target is to host 600,000 international students but also increase education exports to a value of £35bn – which tuition income will be only a part of. A previous target to hit £30bn by 2020 was not met.
Should universities focus more on student and social purpose?
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Heriot Watt Malaysia has put ‘purpose’ at the centre of its education offering to students. Education has long focussed predominantly on equipping students with knowledge and skills, notes Al-Atabi. We use it to enrich and enhance traditional education,” says Al-Atabi. Is a holistic approach viable in unstable times?
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‘Count virtual exchanges in EU mobility numbers’
The PIE News
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
EU nations agreed on the target in 2009, with a plan to achieve it by 2020. Putting it bluntly: either it abandons the unattainable 20% benchmark or it radically expands its catchment,” the report notes. “We know now that the benchmark – which was set relatively blindly at the time – has not been achieved.
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“The seeds are sown” – what’s next for UK India education partnerships?
The PIE News
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Boosting trade with India Photo: British Council India The group has been in the country for several days already as part of a trade mission organised by the UK’s Department for Business and Trade, Department for Education and the British Council, meeting their Indian counterparts and discussing opportunities for collaboration.
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IIT Guwahati Launches Online Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence on Coursera
Coursera blog
JULY 6, 2023
The National Education Policy 2020 emphasizes on training and preparing professionals in cutting-edge areas that are fast gaining prominence, such as machine learning, AI, big data analysis, etc., NEP 2020 further highlights the importance of increasing the Gross Enrollment Ratio in higher education.
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Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Starts with Culture First, Then Asks Questions
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 3, 2024
She is also a columnist for the New York Times, an award-winning author, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. When McMillan Cottom started graduate school, she had more questions than disciplinary allegiances, which led her to the intersection of the sociology of education and political economy. McMillan Cottom received her Ph.D.
Decentralisation and the case for moving to a tertiary education system
SRHE
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Policy had become centralised although institutional autonomy was pledged to be preserved. It is palpably evident that centralisation under an Office for Students (established as primarily a Regulator but replacing the UGC and its successor body, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)) is running out of road.
India opens first TNE campus in Uganda
The PIE News
APRIL 19, 2023
On the other hand, the number of overseas students enrolled in Indian higher education institutions fell by 2.6% in the last two years from 49,348 in 2019/20 to 48,035 in 2020/21 according to The Indian Express , quoting data by All India Survey on Higher Education.
India aims for 500,000 foreign students by 2047
The PIE News
DECEMBER 12, 2023
It comes as the NITI Aayog ’s CEO, BVR Subrahmanyam, announced at the annual FICCI Higher Education Summit that the think tank was preparing a “vision document”, which will help achieve the numbers. “One The NEP 2020 is dedicated to establishing India as a leading global hub for education.
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30 years on: what do polytechnics teach us about transcending the vocational/ academic divide in today’s higher education landscape?
HEPI
DECEMBER 4, 2022
Katherine Emms is a Senior Education & Policy Researcher at the Edge Foundation. The current shortage of high-skilled professionals has again placed vocational education centre stage. To remedy this, the Edge Foundation has created a repository of past policy reviews.
Report: U.S. Schools Remain Segregated, More Work to Do
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
After the 2020 police murder of George Floyd and the protests and “racial reckoning” against police violence that followed, various industries and sectors have had to reassess – or were said to be due for reassessments of – their own conditions and hierarchies, the report authors wrote. “Any
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Why not HE? The reasons those from under-represented backgrounds decide against university
SRHE
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Efforts to widen higher education access have tended to focus on the provision of information and supportto those from under-represented backgrounds. Those planning on employmenttalked about the appeal of ‘getting a job’ and wanting to leave full-time education behind. by Neil Raven. The follow-up focused on two further subject areas.
Finland International School sets up third campus in India
The PIE News
JUNE 17, 2024
I am so excited for the students who will join FIS as in today’s world educational systems are not narrow and it’s not just about getting high grades or following rote learning. Indian states like Kerala have also held meetings with Finnish officials to discuss cooperation in the education sector.
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More financial assistance sought in Indian budget
The PIE News
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
India has increased its education budget for this year to Rs1.2 However, international education stakeholders say outbound Indian students should have been addressed. “These aspects significantly impact the affordability of international education for Indian students and their families. trillion (£11.4
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India open for international collaboration, government tells UK universities
The PIE News
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Speaking at the British Council’s India-UK higher education conference in New Delhi, Neeta Prasad, joint secretary at India’s Ministry of Education, said the country’s education ecosystem has “undergone a massive transformation” over the last three years and “that transformation is still going on”.
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India seeks to simplify int’l student journey with one-stop portal
The PIE News
AUGUST 9, 2023
The country’s ministry of education, in collaboration with the ministry of home affairs and ministry of external affairs, has launched a centralised digital platform for global students seeking higher education in India. The launch of the ‘Study In India’ portal by the Ministry of Education was a momentous occasion!
Lifting As They Climb
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Banks to serve as president. “It
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Higher ed policies drive layoffs and cuts in the UK, Australia and Canada
The PIE News
MAY 2, 2024
Such a projection is particularly pertinent after a report this year found that 80% of higher education providers could fall into deficit if there is a gradual or sudden drop in international students. Australia’s changing policy environment is causing the largest volume of prospective students to reconsider their study abroad plans, with 8.9%
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Black and Hispanic Students Far Less Likely to Receive Race-Matched Instruction
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 22, 2022
From a sample of over 560,000 first year, first time community college students and over 32,000 instructors in Texas between 2013 and 2020, researchers found that 77% of white students experienced a racial match. Griffin, the dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. Dr. Kimberly A.
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Real Faculty Wages Decline for Third Straight Year
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 15, 2023
Dr. Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was not sure whether the gains were related to increased strike activity in the past two years but said that the increase didn’t match strikers’ goals. Any increase doesn’t make these jobs livable.”
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Why it’s always time to speak up for international students
The PIE News
DECEMBER 5, 2023
International students were and are deeply involved in their communities for good, and home students felt their education and lives enriched by connections with peers from around the world. A reduction in public funding has meant international students are the unseen funders of British higher education. They underpin all teaching.
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New funding models explored as UK HEIs “running out of road”
The PIE News
APRIL 11, 2024
Stakeholders in UK higher education are exploring a range of potential funding models for undergraduate education, against a backdrop of financial sustainability concerns, course cuts and redundancies for higher education institutions. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain.
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Universities can set up in India but regulations pose challenge
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
India wants to internationalise its higher education system and tackle brain-drain, as set out in the 2020 National Education Policy , while foreign institutions are keen to capitalise on the growing demand from Indian students. The regulations have been quite a long way in the making,” said Singh. “It’s
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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 29, 2024
In April, Dr. Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy.
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The State of Higher Education Part 1: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 159 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Courtney Brown
The Change Leader, Inc.
JUNE 13, 2023
college or university say their barriers have been to finishing their education over three years. college or university say their barriers have been to finishing their education over three years. People still valued post-secondary education and wanted to come back.
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