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

The PIE News

Last year, Dutch minister for Education, Culture and Science, Robbert Dijkgraaf, told The PIE in an exclusive interview that the country was searching for an “optimal” number of international students, while he praised the role of student and researcher international exchanges. times as many as the 2005/06 figure.

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“Courage, Creativity and Confidence” – Celebrating the Class of 2021

Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

At Lorain County Community College, we celebrated the class of 2021 with unforgettable tributes to our remarkable graduates. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona and Ohio Department of Higher Education Chancellor Randy Gardner. Ohio Department of Higher Education Chancellor Randy Gardner.

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Ask not what you can do for engineering…

HEPI

One of the reasons engineering is neglected in the school curriculum is perhaps because it is (wrongly) considered analogous to applied sciences and mathematics. This piece considers how the school curriculum can be adapted to develop creativity, practical skills, and inclusive, real-world learning. Thats a deeply reductive view.

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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

” As Axios explains, “The school’s entire annual operating expense in 2021 was $1.86 The fact is that Princeton is not a research powerhouse in the applied sciences. In 2021, after the endowment had risen to $53 billion, the first-year class consisted of 1,675 freshmen.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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Responsibilities and gatekeeping in using language certificates for HE admission

SRHE

by Jana Berg, Michael Grüttner, Stefanie Schröder With the exception of a few master’s degree programs, the German higher education system is dominated by monolingual organizations. Therefore, language certificates are a key element of access to German higher education for international students.

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Creating career-ready graduates

Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

LCCC’s history of serving the community stretches back to 1963 when the need was recognized for a local college to create higher education access and a bridge to gainful employment. The MEMS program alone has increased from three students in 2013 to 150 in 2021. It’s right there, our middle name: community.