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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students.

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Abolish GCSEs, put people’s IQs on their credit cards and ban the Harvard Women’s Rugby Team? What we were reading about education in 2024

HEPI

Nick Hillman, HEPIs Director, takes a look at three thought-provoking books covering education that were published this year. Meanwhile, Russia and China continue with smartist policies, strengthening their power. Words like dumb and stupid and dopey are banned.

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The Evolving Landscape of Higher Education in America

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

UCLA Graduation As graduates streamed into commencement ceremonies last May, their faces reflected the changing demographics of American higher education. The starting point for understanding this transformation takes us back to 1995, when the educational playing field between young men and women appeared remarkably level.

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What were we reading about higher education in 2024?

HEPI

As 2024 draws to a close, Josh Freeman, Policy Manager, and the HEPI team look back on a remarkable year in higher education policy. Today, we gaze over quite a different policy landscape from the one I wrote about this time last year. Students views on generative AI in higher education.

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International universities eye Nepal’s high student mobility

The PIE News

According to Acumen, Nepal Rising helped the universities gain deeper insights into the South Asian countrys K-12 market, transnational education space and government regulations in the education sector, and also encouraged engagement with over 35 Nepali counsellors and agents.

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Hits and misses in Budget 2024 for India’s education sector

The PIE News

lakh crore (over $17 billion) for education, employment and skill sectors, internships with stipends worth INR 5,000 in top companies, to promising education loans upto INR 10 lakhs ($11,949), the central government is eyeing a funding boost for the education space. From announcing INR 1.48 That said, again execution matters.

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Let’s hear it for interns!

HEPI

I hope it doesn’t sound trite when I say that the thought also encapsulates how education often works. While it may sometimes seem on the surface as if education is the process of transmitting knowledge from an educator to the benefit of the person being educated, the gains often flow in the opposite direction.

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