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Cultivating global learner ownership from high school to higher education

The PIE News

This can range from using STEM skills to create solutions for issues around climate change, in the fields of medicine and engineering, or in the productive use of artificial intelligence – to the societal and economic challenges of a globalised society, where world conflict and economic distress can be felt across borders.

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Is the future tertiary?

HEPI

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Alice Wilby , Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Access, Participation and Student Experience) at University College Birmingham. There are many FE colleges on the OfS register, with many more delivering HE through franchise arrangements and Institutes of Technology.

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Why not HE? The reasons those from under-represented backgrounds decide against university

SRHE

In both instances, the principal aim was to understand better the challenges to HE progression faced by those on advanced level applied and professional courses (including BTECs) at a Midlands based further education (FE) college. For context, progression rates are generally lower from FE colleges than sixth forms.

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As microcredentials boom, employers' hiring platforms fumble

Inside Higher Ed

Some applicants enter information about their skills, professional experience and educational achievements into an organization’s hiring platform, including information about traditional college degrees and alternative nondegree credentials. Of those that do, none afford recruiters the opportunity to verify the skills.

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Inside Higher Ed's best-read content of 2022

Inside Higher Ed

Another is that administrators at some colleges are going to make decisions that are foolish or short-sighted, professors are going to get mad -- and Inside Higher Ed' s readers won't be able to get enough of it. " That question loomed over federal higher education policy for much of 2022.

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Malaysia’s International Education by 2020 and Beyond: Re-examining Concept, Targets and Outcome

GlobalHigherEd

Morshidi is also a Senior Research Fellow at the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN), Universiti Sains Malaysia. Promoting the establishment of Malaysian branches of foreign universities in Malaysia is widely regarded by policy makers as one element of international education. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

GlobalHigherEd

Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) – Written evidence (12 January 2016). , about one possible risk-reducing option. In such a context here is the question to consider: is an Oxbridge-Lille (a joint Cambridge-Oxford university) or equivalent (e.g., University Alliance – Written evidence (4 December 2015).