Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Image: China’s Ministry of Education will no longer recognize online degrees from overseas colleges, per a Jan. The announcement, which arrived without notice and was effective immediately, impacts Chinese students enrolled at foreign colleges who had been studying online in their home country. Reputable U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

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. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Representative Norma J.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

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. In a perfect world, technology would streamline the communication process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

Tressie McMillan Cottom McMillan Cottom is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill and a senior principal researcher at UNC’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. She is also a columnist for the New York Times, an award-winning author, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Efforts implemented by awarded institutions in prior years have included services such as counseling, tutoring, childcare, community-building activities, targeted outreach, financial assistance, technology provision, and transportation. “By Scholars also expressed some dissatisfaction with what the bill leaves out.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

Dr. Katharine Meyer, fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brown Center on Education Policy at the nonprofit Brookings Institution. Katharine Meyer, a fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brown Center on Education Policy at the nonprofit Brookings Institution.

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HEPI

JULY 24, 2023

What’s striking is just how much of the overall structure of the current school policy landscape Labour seem willing to retain. Labour’s goal is brave, and their approach is compelling, but there is more big thinking to be done on how to design tough policies which truly shatter that ceiling when resources are so constrained.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2024

Imperial overtook Oxford and Harvard universities and was behind only the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the annual Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) world university rankings. Continue reading.

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The PIE News

MAY 2, 2024

“The government is intent on attacking migrants and harming universities, but it is scandalous that university managers are willing to destroy the livelihoods of their staff based on mere projections of future international recruitment levels,” University and College Union general secretary Jo Grady told The PIE.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference theme this year is humanizing higher education, and hundreds of scholars from across the country gathered here to share their research, resources, and make connections. They’re there to provide access to higher education to their communities.” We estimate about one million college interns are unpaid for their work.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

by Katy Jordan, Janja Komljenovic and Jeremy Knox The SRHE Digital University Network was launched in 2012, with a view to present “ critical, theorised and research-based perspectives on technologies in higher education ”. Janja is published internationally on higher education policy, markets and education technology.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. 4) I have had the opportunity to redesign the institutional research function at both community colleges and at a public regional university.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

The criteria, which were expected to be finalized later this month following consultation, clarify the rules for international universities setting up Indian campuses, a shift first announced in the 2020 National Education Policy (NEP). “Academic autonomy has been and is a major concern at the moment,” he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. Based on data gathered, we increased support services such as Ram Pantry, counseling, technology availability, and academic advising,” he continues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

brought innovation, excellence, and inclusion to community colleges. De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work. Alfredo de los Santos Jr. Richardson Jr.,

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The TransferBOOST Affordability Financial Tool , developed by rpk GROUP in collaboration with HCM Strategists and the Institute for Higher Education Policy, provides step-by-step guidance on how institutions can understand more about the return on investment of better serving students who transfer and are mobile.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Half are nonwhite, and most (60 percent) are the first in their families to attend college. That may change—or not—depending on the outcome of UoPeople’s bid for accreditation from the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), whose decision is expected this month. It’s a delicate balance.”

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ACPA

MARCH 6, 2023

Berry is committed to using her research to support practitioners in teaching and leading with technology. Her recent book, “ Creating Inclusive Online Communities : Practices that Support and Engage Diverse Students ” focuses on how to better support college students in online learning environments.

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HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

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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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since. This article looks back at the report and considers what the lessons might be for politicians, officials and higher education leaders contemplating a future review. and Johnson, J.

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WCET Frontiers

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Framework In 2023, Cecilia Ka Yuk Chan conducted research on perceptions and implications of text generative AI technologies in order to develop an AI policy for higher education. The WCET framework adapts Chan’s framework and categorizes institutional AI policy needs in three areas: Governance, Operations, and, Pedagogy.

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I jumped at the chance to speak to London Higher in part because I am an alumnus of our host institution, having studied here at the end of the last century when Queen Mary University of London / QMUL was known as QMWC or Queen Mary and Westfield College. I am also lucky to be an Honorary Fellow of this institution.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book brings together 55 different authors – including academics, a vice-chancellor and numerous education policy experts (such as Sam Freedman, Lord Lucas, Jonathan Simons , Ann Mroz and Tom Richmond). Nick Hillman, HEPI Director, takes a look at a new book on private schools, The State of Independence.

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2024

Yet, this developing flexibility is underdeveloped in many community colleges where technical and in-person training is staunchly preserved. Smaller universities and community colleges are tapping into this power by ensuring that credible and high-performing instructors are teaching the best courses that are tightly aligned to industry.

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HESA

MAY 24, 2023

In the final scenes of the 1991 movie The Russia House , as Sean Connery is about to give “the shopping list” – a comprehensive list of questions about Soviet rocket technology – to what MI6 and the CIA believe is a potential Russian defector, there’s a conversation between a young agent and Edward Fox, who plays Sean Connery’s handler. “

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

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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The PIE News

MAY 28, 2023

Speaking on the services advertised on Taobao, Thomas Lancaster, a computer scientist and expert on contract cheating and plagiarism at Imperial College London , said that it was difficult to know exactly what the services are doing. “It

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer In 2021, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education reported that two out of three learners—we call them learners, not students, to dispel the image of the 18- to 22-year-old residential student—come to college with previous credit or prior learning.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Here are some of the key takeaways from two days of engaging panels, workshops, and peer-to-peer conversation: Student-centered experiences are critical to achieving positive outcomes Digital transformation, globalization, and demographic shifts are reshaping higher education.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Here are some of the key takeaways from two days of engaging panels, workshops, and peer-to-peer conversation: Student-centered experiences are critical to achieving positive outcomes Digital transformation, globalization, and demographic shifts are reshaping higher education.

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HEPI

JUNE 24, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Higher Education Policy Institute. Attendees included vice-chancellors, senior leaders from across the sector, colleagues from mission groups and technology specialists.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Formed between 1969 and 1973, England’s polytechnics offered higher education courses in vocational areas. Created through mergers of colleges of technology, art, commerce and other specialist institutions, they offered full-time, sandwich and part-time courses. Polytechnics – set-up and beginnings. Get our updates via email.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

She recalled: “Coming out of World War II and the internment camp, my father’s family had no money, so he put himself through college, working three jobs. He would drop off his homework, stay for tests, and then drive off to his next job so that he could pay for college and graduate as an electrical engineer. and Sterling Ventures.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

by Kat Emms For two years Edge Foundation has been drawing together lessons from past education policies. The polytechnics were designated in the 1960s as new institutions formed from existing technical and other colleges within the English further education system, and with one in Wales.

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SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

There were other overshoots: in History, Cambridge submitted 170%, Oxford 120%, perhaps linked to college staff not based in a department. Work in HE had grown since 2014, with strong work with a policy focus, drawing on sociology, economics and critical policy studies. UHI submitted 110%, but that was only 7.3

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The PIE News

JUNE 7, 2024

alliance gaining 232 seats , could lead to a more balanced approach towards education policies on the domestic and international front, according to stakeholders. “A A balanced parliament can foster bipartisan support for comprehensive reforms, focusing on enhancing quality, accessibility, and innovation in higher education.

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