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Your Ideal Digitally Capable Higher Education Student: Reflections from a transition to Higher Education Workshop

HEPI

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/Nurun In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, higher education institutions (HEI) increasingly recognise the importance of preparing students to thrive in a technology-driven world. It demands taking a collaborative approach rather than a siloed effort.

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The tuition fees U-turn shows Labour is out of touch with the times | Letters

The Guardian - Higher Education

Keir Starmer fails to grasp how squeezed the middle classes have become, says Derrick Joad , while Tim Exton worries about the impact on students from poor backgrounds and David Mayle argues that graduates pay their way in tax Polly Toynbee’s article fails to convince this reader ( Keir Starmer is right to U-turn on tuition fees.

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Challenging climate hypocrisy in higher education learning and teaching 

HEPI

Climate hypocrisy in Higher Education The climate crisis and global attempts at strengthening the sustainable and low-carbon transition is arguably the most critical issue we face and there is clear evidence to show strong Higher Education (HE) support for this twin approach.

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Higher Education Funding: The End of Illusion?

HEPI

This article was kindly authored for HEPI by Peter Scott, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Studies at UCL and Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University between 1998 and 2010. There are two puzzles about UK higher education in the late summer of 2024. Within the UK it is certainly true compared with colleges and schools.

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An Apology for the Liberal Arts

HEPI

What is the purpose of a university education? A liberal arts education is what a society — a civilisation — ought to champion. Only a liberal arts education can properly perform these functions. Compare the American system of education, which remains broadly generalist until graduate studies, with the British system.

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Institutional autonomy: does it need an ‘academic community’?

HEPI

The arrival of the ‘alternative provider’ In 1997 the Dearing Report saw diversity in British higher education institutions as an advantage ‘especially in providing for student choice; in programme and pedagogic innovation’ and ‘in the ability of the sector as a whole to meet the wide range of expectations now relevant to higher education’.

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. The New England Commission of Higher Education] is getting more comfortable with pilots, for examples.”