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IHEP and Results for America Release HEA Fund Allocation Recommendations for Education Department

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) and Results for America (RFA) released recommendations for the Department of Education (ED) to set-aside 0.5% of funds from certain Higher Education Act (HEA) programs within ED and put it towards supporting equity-focused work.

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Proposed Legislation Would Create Program to Support Students’ Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Torres (D-Calif), reintroduce the Basic Assistance for Students in College (BASIC) Act on Wednesday, a bicameral legislation to help ensure college students can meet their basic needs while pursuing their education.

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Australia’s 2025 enrolment cap unveiled, but uncertainty lingers

The PIE News

In a joint media release , ministers said that independent providers will be allocated 30,000 new student commencements, while public universities will receive an allocation of around 145,000. Education minister Jason Clare suggested providers in the vocational education sector will see the largest reductions.

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Australia’s NUHEPs: shonks and crooks – or an invaluable cradle of innovation?

The PIE News

This discourse has been dominated by perspectives of the “winners and losers” across the public universities – where proposed caps maintain 2023 volumes of around 145,000 new international enrolments but seek to re-allocate these across the 38 university providers. A run on the TPS?

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

The PIE News

Stakeholders from India’s domestic and international education industry, speaking to The PIE News , have highlighted the hits and misses for the sectors. lakh crore allocation can prove to be the game changer for reforms in India’s educational infrastructure. “E-vouchers 57,244 crore allocated in 2023/24 to Rs.

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10 ways for Labour to fill the HE policy vacuum

HEPI

The new Labour Government quite rightly has a strong focus on economic growth and new higher education policies should seek to support this central goal. What follows are some initial thoughts that aim to foster a debate and fill the current policy vacuum. generated for every £1 of funding.’

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Beechside views: swings and roundabouts

The PIE News

Tracking higher education policy in the UK has never been a simple undertaking. While some policy changes apply to universities across the country, the devolved nature of education means that most announcements made by the Department for Education tend only to apply to institutions in England.