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EDUCAUSE 2024: Counseling Model Meets Students Where They Are: In the Esports Arena

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Esports has come a long way from its beginnings as a misunderstood, niche extracurricular activity bubbling up on college campuses in the early 21st century. Today, it’s not a question of whether a university should support esports on campus but a matter of how and to what extent.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A Project Belonging survey was conducted in spring 2024 that gathered data from 881 Latinx students about belonging, engagement and self-confidence. Latinx participation in the Metro College Success Program learning community increased by 25% between 2019 and 2024.

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Student Accommodation after 2024 and the Need for Strategic Realignment

HEPI

Accommodation Demand: the 2024-2025 Intake Home student intake has been buoyant, despite the gloom in the sector and although UCAS figures show that most of the growth in undergraduate intake has been in higher tariff universities, some post-92 institutions have done better than they expected.

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Caps, chaos and a sector in crisis: 2024 in review

The PIE News

The year 2024 has been a whirlwind for the International education sector full of new immigration policies, sweeping changes to international student enrolments and proposed overhauls to English language testing. Here, we unwrap the major news stories of 2024 and why they resonated so much with The PIE’s readers.

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Lunchtime Reading: Will having more male teachers as role models solve ‘the boy question’?

HEPI

Spurred on by the huge response to the TV series Adolescence, Bridget Phillipson MP, Secretary of State for Education, has this week called for more male teachers to act as role models for disaffected boys. Yet, while the idea of male teachers as role models is an alluring one, the plan is deeply flawed.

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A Hopeful First Year for New Texas Funding Model

Inside Higher Ed

A Hopeful First Year for New Texas Funding Model Sara Weissman Mon, 07/15/2024 - 03:00 AM Texas embraced a new, performance-based funding model for community colleges. A year later, campus leaders believe they are starting to see the rewards. Byline(s) Sara Weissman

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Colorado Bill Seen as Model for Improving Credit Transfer

Inside Higher Ed

Colorado Bill Seen as Model for Improving Credit Transfer jessica.blake@… Tue, 05/07/2024 - 03:00 AM The measure, passed on a bipartisan basis, would guarantee that more courses count toward students’ majors and require transparency on colleges’ transfer activity. Byline(s) Jessica Blake

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