Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

A new Data Points series is providing insights into the impacts of community college bachelor’s degree education and increasingly diverse populations and their career prospects.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

While Margaret Thatcher was the Secretary of State for Education and Science in the 1970s , she instructed people working in independent educational institutions to: ‘never apologise for independence. A permanent solution was outlined in the higher education white Paper of 2011, Students at the Heart of the System.

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HEPI

APRIL 12, 2025

In this weekend long read, he discusses the history of marketisation in higher education and considers whether applicants have enough information to make informed judgements about where and what they study. Some 40% of undergraduate students might have chosen a different route, although only 6% would not have entered higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Image: A number of financial disincentives deter colleges from smoothly transferring students’ course credits from one institution to another, according to a new white paper by the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB), a group of experts dedicated to transforming the transfer process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The detrimental ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education won’t be going away any time soon, and student mental health is becoming an increasingly urgent issue, according to a recent EAB report. We found that student success leaders should anticipate at least five more years of elevated student needs,” the report noted.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Higher Education and Research Act of 2017 (HERA) asserts that both the Secretary of State and the Office for Students ‘must have regard to the need to protect the institutional autonomy of English higher education providers’. There is now an enormous range of ‘higher education providers’. Questions are being asked.

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HEPI

APRIL 4, 2023

On 22 June 2023, John Cater will complete three decades as the Director and Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University, rendering him the longest-serving head of a higher education institution in the UK. HEPI is marking the occasion by publishing his thoughts on higher education in 2030. Thirty years ago, I was a geographer.

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HEPI

MARCH 24, 2025

Dr Katerina Kolyva is Chief Executive Officer of The Education and Training Foundation. Post-16 education in England is at a pivotal moment, with increasing efforts to create a more integrated and collaborative system.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The sudden onset of the COVID-19 pandemic made digital literacy more urgent than ever on college campuses. By now, remote learning and nonverbal communication with educators and peers have become routine for students of all backgrounds. Research from the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that 72.7

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Image: A new Free Application for Federal Student Aid is less than a year away, and colleges and universities are already planning for the expected overhaul of federal student aid. “We’re definitely anticipating greatly the Department of Education’s student aid index formula guide,” Desjean said.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of digital capability in higher education by delving into key findings from our collaborative white paper with Wonkhe. Learning and teaching professional, FE college. As students were thought to be lacking in confidence using digital technologies, so too were some educators.

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Helix Education

MAY 15, 2024

To that end, I’ve been working a white paper (to be published in June) that will lay out more than a dozen strategies that institutions can use to build alternative revenue (student) streams. Department of Education (IPEDS) projections for first-year students now, in 2020, and in 2016 in orange. 2030-33: 55,523 +1.3%

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Helix Education

AUGUST 28, 2024

As I said in my introduction, when I need to know about the latest developments in online education, I have come to rely on Phil’s research and analysis. Education Department regulations represent one of the greatest “headwinds” and sources of turbulence for institutions seeking growth through online expansion.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Coming to terms with our own myopia as educators can be uncomfortable, but as we are educators first and not just purveyors of content, most of us welcome the chance to become more effective in the classroom. If so, this belief seems to compound at the time of a student’s entrance to college. Could it be that they were…bored?

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Coming to terms with our own myopia as educators can be uncomfortable, but as we are educators first and not just purveyors of content, most of us welcome the chance to become more effective in the classroom. If so, this belief seems to compound at the time of a student’s entrance to college. Could it be that they were…bored?

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HEPI

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The Higher Education & Research Act 2017 (HERA) was conceived in a different policy age. It was an enactment of the ideas put forward in 2016 by Jo Johnson, then Universities Minister, in the White Paper, Success as a Knowledge Economy. Several more highly innovative providers are known to be in planning stage. .

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It is palpably evident that centralisation under an Office for Students (established as primarily a Regulator but replacing the UGC and its successor body, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)) is running out of road. Policy had become centralised although institutional autonomy was pledged to be preserved.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Kortext colleagues attended events around the world, from Bangkok to Berlin and Rwanda to Rome, culminating in the ‘Oscars of higher education’, the THE Awards in Liverpool. Our vision is to enable and enrich the higher education of tomorrow and help all students fulfil their potential through digital teaching and learning solutions.”

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EAB

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Download the white paper. In our most recent white paper , we’ve laid out nine steps to enroll more underrepresented students in a high-level framework that covers each stage of the enrollment funnel. Improve your diversity strategy. Use these guidelines to recruit and enroll more underrepresented students. .

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

There is more responsibility than ever for college faculty to deliver outstanding instruction in the classroom. With less than half of students who enter four-year colleges finishing within six years, they assert that faculty cannot be allowed to simply just be the expert in their field in the classroom.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Kelly Heuer and I have been collaborating in the context of my college’s portfolio of online programs on the edX platform. In our work together, I’ve been impressed with Kelly’s understanding of academic culture paired with her deep expertise in learning science.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A new report from educational consultants ISC Research suggests factors such as increasing diversity, a post-Covid surge and geopolitical events are leading to a flourishing international school sector. “In terms of ability, schools aren’t just for the high-performing academic students.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

There is more responsibility than ever for college faculty to deliver outstanding instruction in the classroom. With less than half of students who enter four-year colleges finishing within six years, they assert that faculty cannot be allowed to simply just be the expert in their field in the classroom.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

If there is another 0.25% increase in the base rate, as is widely anticipated, this will place government and university finances under further pressure over the next few years with significant negative implications for HE students, the UK Government’s education budget in general and the further education college budget in particular.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 31, 2022

One of the two slides Phil shared out was further confirmation of a trend that everyone in higher education has already been struggling with: Coursera, like US higher education institutions, has seen a decline in degree program enrollments. Coursera as a marketplace. But platforms can enable building more than just software extensions.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Awardees are chosen from among the colleges, universities, and individuals that use Navigate , EAB’s student success management system, or Starfish , the student success platform EAB acquired in 2021. Congratulations to our 2022 winners: Technology Pioneer Award: Bakersfield College. York Technical College. Sierra College.

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HEPI

AUGUST 1, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Roger Brown, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Policy and former Vice-Chancellor of Southampton Solent University. By the start of the twenty-first century though, that had changed and there was a role for a specialist higher education think tank.

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HEPI

JANUARY 10, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Rob Stroud, Director of Quality Assessment, England at the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. Independent providers are incredibly diverse, and very rarely look like the stereotypical multi-faculty institution that the words ‘higher education’ typically bring to mind.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

Please see the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board’s full white paper on this topic here. Interviews with a broader group of accreditors and a literature review supplemented our engagement with WSCUC and its members. Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this diversity newsletter?:

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The proposals of the Robbins Report on Higher Education considered the role of providers of tertiary education. It concluded that to ‘confer degree-giving powers on all the existing’ Further Education Colleges ‘would be inappropriate because of the number involved, the variation in their sizes and the diversity of standards’.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Blogs 5 areas for community college leaders to take stock in 2023 And resources to help sustain your post-pandemic momentum Now that community colleges have weathered the storm of the pandemic, it’s time to take a moment to recognize all you have accomplished, and then to begin to steer the transition from a “crisis” mindset to a sustainability one.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Irish language colleges have reiterated their concerns about the proposed learner protection fund that will be introduced with the International Education Mark, following the release of new draft policy documents. . An outline of the insurance scheme has previously been hinted at and discussed in private with language schools.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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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EAB

APRIL 5, 2023

3 recommendations to make your admissions practices more equitable My previous enrollment leadership roles spanned admissions, financial aid, and advising, so I understand all too well how each phase of a student’s educational journey is impacted by policies in each of these offices. DOWNLOAD THE WHITE PAPER 1.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Higher-education leaders are seeking better representation and support for diverse student populations. With a wide range of student backgrounds, needs, and experiences to consider, educators have the opportunity—and responsibility—to level the playing field. Higher education is shifting toward ‘nontraditional’ learners.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

7 November · Episode 180 A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model 36 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton This conversation–rooted in the findings of E&Y white paper: How are you balancing the books for a digital future? covers the global shift in Higher Education.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

In 2023, WCET will look at Artificial Intelligence (AI) and provide support and resources to help you break through the rhetoric and understand both the promises and perils of AI in higher education. To begin, this introductory blog post will focus on an overview of large language model AIs and their potential impact on higher education.

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