Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia. One of the most common mistakes that institutions make in their efforts to retain students is an overemphasis on tuition scholarships.

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The PIE News

MAY 18, 2023

“We recognise concerns about overseas interference in our higher education sector, including through Confucius Institutes, and regularly assess the risks facing academia,” the spokesperson said. Meanwhile, some stakeholders are calling for the end to university-based Confucius Institutes.

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HEPI

MARCH 26, 2023

Here at Imperial College where I first began as a student 45 years ago, our commitment is to providing ‘the most advanced training, education research and scholarship in science, technology and medicine, especially in their application to industry’. Every day I see what this means in practice.

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The PIE News

JUNE 7, 2024

Key areas to watch include increased investment in research and development, stronger industry-academia partnerships, and policies promoting internationalisation. With India staring at a lot of positives and an equal number of challenges, an increased GDP allocation to education, which currently hovers around 2.9%, could be a start.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Khoury notes that 90% of individuals in academia, especially on residential campuses, lack certain skills that are necessary for adapting to new models of teaching and governance. And the idea of a democratic representation in lieu of expertise representation hurts us in academia when we are not sitting on a pile of money. [00:34:52]

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