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An Apology for the Liberal Arts

HEPI

Here, she writes about US liberal arts degrees. What is the purpose of a university education? Computer Science and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. If nothing else, the common wisdom is clear about what a student should avoid: a course in the liberal arts. Yet, this picture is a sham.

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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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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

Her article explores the evolving value of degrees in English higher education, focusing on the competence of degree-granting institutions and the implications of recent changes in degree-awarding powers. Degrees’ remain the highest of all the higher education qualifications and accreditations offered by English higher education providers.

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Strikes disrupt undergraduate learning anew

Inside Higher Ed

Many of these students’ college experiences already have been impacted by COVID-19, and this new disruption is especially challenging due to the internal nature of the conflict and the lack of clear guidance about how to proceed. Then, later in the week, came compromise. Inflation and housing costs have been key issues. visa statuses.

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Flexible Learning Pathways – a new HE or something else?

HEPI

This blog was kindly authored by John Brennan, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Research at the Open University and Visiting Professor at the University of Bath. Higher education is changing. And what do they get from their flexible higher education? And what do they get from their flexible higher education?

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5 career services to support your professional and adult learners

EAB

Twenty-two percent of adult learners we surveyed said internships, co-ops, and other active-learning experiences help convey the value of education when they are selecting a graduate or adult-serving programs. Read on for ways to support your adult learners through career services. Adult learner recruitment 2.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. 15, the Commissioners who were to frame new Statutes for each of the two universities were required to ‘have regard to the interests of education, religion, learning and research’.