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Ask not what you can do for engineering…

HEPI

Engineering is a UK powerhouse sector, growing in all UK regions and impacting all economic sectors. Engineers design, build and maintain the infrastructure, products and services that our economy and society depend on, provide life-saving medical devices, and are the drivers in our transition to a more sustainable world.

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Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Address Financial Insecurity Among STEM Researchers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Relieving Economic Strain to Enhance American Resilience & Competitiveness in Higher Education & Research (RESEARCHER) Act would require federal research agencies to implement policies addressing financial instability among these early-career scientists, who are crucial to maintaining U.S. and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)

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Level 7 Apprenticeships: Babies and Bathwater

HEPI

In 2021/22, nearly half of all Level 6 and 7 apprenticeships were in Business, Administration & Law. After all, they might argue, businesses dont exist to do the governments job of workforce planning or social engineering. 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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Breaking: UK Graduate Route reduced to 18 months under immigration white paper

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The government will also be exploring the introduction of a levy on higher education provider income from international students, to be reinvested into the higher education and skills system. While no final decision has been made, the white paper models a potential 6% levy as an illustrative example.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It took him awhile to connect the dots from his passion to higher education. Dr. Vernon Dunn, director of The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering at the National Academy of Engineers, first met Williams at one of the summer programs Williams ran at Xavier. Move it forward—disrupt it.

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Strategic Blended Learning in Higher Education

Faculty Focus

In spring 2021, inspired by feedback from students, I redesigned my two undergraduate education courses as blended learning courses. As we look to the future of higher education, blended learning might be the model students need as they navigate an ever-changing and ever-challenging world. 2019; Vallée et al.,