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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? If nothing else, the common wisdom is clear about what a student should avoid: a course in the liberal arts. What job could a person possibly get with an Art History degree, for instance?

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Flexible Learning Pathways – a new HE or something else?

HEPI

The ‘where’ question is also changing, partly because of the growth in providers of higher education, not just reflecting the arrival of many new universities, but also the provision of higher education in further education colleges and other institutions. Higher education is everywhere.

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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. ” The parent continued, “I just want to say, these are the wrong kids to do this to.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. The guilds all controlled their membership and awarded their own qualifications.

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Debt Collective Erases Nearly $10M of Morehouse College Debt

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Debt Collective, the nation’s first debtor’s union, has canceled close to $10 million in student debt for Morehouse College students. Thomas, President of Morehouse College hailed the partnership as historic. It is why our Morehouse’s $500 million capital campaign aims to position the College as a need-blind institution by 2023.