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A new report from United Educators reveals that enrollment concerns reclaimed the top spot as the most pressing risk facing colleges and universities in 2024, with 71% of institutions identifying it as a major challenge. This represents an increase from 67% in the previous year.
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The Festival of HigherEducation is back in November 2024, brought to you by Wonkhe and the University of London. Mark Leach and Alistair Jarvis ponder the strategic questions facing highereducation The post Seven questions we’ll be debating at the 2024 Festival of HigherEducation appeared first on Wonkhe.
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In response to recent data showing a worrying financial outlook for highereducation institutions, Professor David Maguire, Vice-Chancellor at the University of East Anglia (UEA), and Dr Alex Bols, Chief of Staff at UEA, argue more Government action is needed to make the sector financially sustainable.
W Kim Lee and Dr. Carolyn Stefanco hen the American Council on Education launched its Moving the Needle initiative over a decade ago to raise awareness about gender parity in highereducation or lack thereof only 23% of college presidents or chancellors were women. in the majority white college town in the Mountain region.
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As AI (artificial intelligence) continues to reshape industries, Complete College America (CCA) launched its Council on Equitable AI in 2024, a significant move that addresses systemic inequities in highereducation. According to CCA, “Equitable AI spans far beyond the risk of mis-trained data.
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I listened to a colleague from Maiduguri University in Northeast Nigeria recount how, time after time, the campus had been attacked and partly destroyed by Boko Haram and other militants, with fatalities among students and staff alike; and how each time the university had rallied, rebuilt, and continued in its mission.
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A flurry of colleges and universities have shuttheir doors following the pandemic, and 2024 didn’t show signs of slowing down. Chances are closings will continue to uptick as highereducation braces for the expected demographic cliff. Centuries of serving highereducation erased. Pierce College (Penn.)
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By Famke Veenstra-Ashmore, who completed an internship with HEPI in summer 2024. UCAS data show that in 2024, the number of 18-year-olds from Wales applying to university was the lowest in the UK. of 18-year-olds in England had applied for university by the end of June deadline, only 33.8% While 41.9%
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Today, it’s not a question of whether a university should support esports on campus but a matter of how and to what extent. At San Diego State University, a grassroots, student-led esports team grew so much that school officials decided to invest in a new Esports Engagement Center inside the school library.
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OfS forecasts present a stark warning for England’s highereducation institutions, urging them to take immediate action and abandon reliance on overly optimistic projections. It is predicted that 72% of highereducation providers in England could be in deficit by 2025-26, and 40% would have fewer than 30 days’ liquidity.
As 2024 draws to a close, Josh Freeman, Policy Manager, and the HEPI team look back on a remarkable year in highereducation policy. Universities UK published its Blueprint , proving it is possible to get 140 vice-chancellors (or thereabouts) to agree on something. Students views on generative AI in highereducation.
Colleges and universities are routinely under attack by cybercriminals, and hundreds of those individuals or criminal organizations have successfully breached highereducation networks in recent years. She also explained some of the…
Highereducation institutions are using mountains of data to address the many challenges they are facing in 2024 and beyond. Colleges and universities know that getting their arms around the data they collect, establishing clear data policies and understanding what the data is telling them are critical to their future.
Stephen Naso , Senior Director of Education and Knowledge at Liaison, is a first-generation student. To celebrate one of our favorite education holidays, a few weeks late, we sat down with Stephen to ask him some questions about his journey into highereducation. What were your top three schools at that time?
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Highereducation will be a site of struggle in 2025 and beyond. You can read more about HELU's 2024 work in our previous newsletters and monthly Chair's Messages from Mia McIver. We must build our power and that requires increasing the funding available to our movement. Please consider making a contribution to HELU today.
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We need branding and marketing, I said when I came into the director of communications and marketing role at Rutgers University-Newark. With that focus, Rutgers University-Newark is thriving at a time when highereducation institutions struggle with enrollment and a dramatically changed business environment.
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