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Level 7 Apprenticeships: Babies and Bathwater

HEPI

After all, they might argue, businesses dont exist to do the governments job of workforce planning or social engineering. In the second decade of this century many policy papers punningly declared that they were laying out a 2020 vision. Engineering is a highly dynamic sector with an ageing population of skilled professionals.

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Don’t Just Witness History; Seize the Opportunity to Shape It

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lomax UNCF’s new research report, Transforming Futures: The Economic Engines of HBCUs , offers empirical evidence of the profound impact HBCUs have on the success of students, communities and the nation as a whole. HBCUs have a 34% mobility rate of moving their students from the bottom 40% in household income into the top 60%.

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From the Military to the Ivy League: Two Veterans Pursue Dartmouth’s Online Master of Engineering

Coursera blog

John Murphy and Felix Hong have traversed unique yet parallel journeys, from serving their country to pursuing advanced degrees through Dartmouths online Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering (MEng). After graduating in 2020, Felix sought a way to align his career with his academic background.

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Teaching and Thinking with Technology

Faculty Focus

Within weeks of its release, the program amassed an unprecedented 100 million users, setting a new record for the fastest technology to reach this milestone. Higher education has not been particularly embracive to new technologies, at least not since the invention of the internet.

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QS rankings: US and UK unis lead but Asian countries excel

The PIE News

While US universities lead in 32 subjects, with Harvard topping 15 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology leading 11, UK universities excel in 18 subjects, with Cambridge ranking first in four. China, for example, had 100 entries in the top 50 in 2020. That number has now risen to 231, marking a 131% increase over five years.

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Funding university research “key in building innovation” in India

The PIE News

In the US, there is a clear linkage between research and innovation, but in India, those linkages were not there earlier, said Nikhil Agarwal, managing director, Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer , IIT Delhi. A coalition between engineering and medical schools is now underway to drive innovation in medtech, stated Agarwal.

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Teaching and Thinking with Technology

Faculty Focus

Within weeks of its release, the program amassed an unprecedented 100 million users, setting a new record for the fastest technology to reach this milestone. Higher education has not been particularly embracive to new technologies, at least not since the invention of the internet.