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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That is largely because these justice-impacted students are often invisible to educators, their identities simply erased. Being members of an unprotected class (a term used by Dr. Joe Louis Hernandez ) limits the potential for higher education to transform the lives of people affected by the justice system.

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What I wish every Minister and MP would see …

HEPI

This blog has been kindly written by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of London Higher, the representative body for more than 40 universities and higher education colleges across the capital.

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The Lifelong Learning Entitlement could still be a game changer for higher education

HEPI

GuildHE has been a long-time advocate for credit-based funding and I have been co-chairing the DfE Higher Education working group, together with Universities UK. To date, the LLE has drawn a mixed response from higher education providers. What’s happened up to now?

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Regional higher education partnerships: the Oxford to Cambridge ARC

HEPI

1] Similar desiderata are explored in a recent Report of the Higher Education Policy Institute on the future of the Oxford to Cambridge Arc in the context of the regional working together of the other local universities. Partnership with business is also strongly recommended, for both financial and research-related reasons.

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UK students forced to wait until last minute for Turing funds

The PIE News

This year, 150 higher education institutions applied for Turing funding , compared to 211 further education and VET institutions, and 159 schools. A further £36 million went to the FE/VET sector and £7 million to schools. We would prefer to have more agency in deciding how that money gets spent,” he said.

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Beverly Sand obituary

The Guardian - Higher Education

My wife, Beverly Sand, who has died aged 76, will be remembered as a committed and fiercely intelligent advocate for widening access to learning opportunities for those failed by their earlier experiences of the education system.

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UofG’s Rachel Sandison named Scotland’s intled envoy

The PIE News

Sandison, deputy vice-chancellor (external engagement) and vice-principal (external relations) at the University of Glasgow has been appointed the Scottish government’s trade and investment envoy for international education. The role succeeds the envoy for international higher education, a post held by Wendy Alexander from 2017 to 2025.