Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

College completion rates for older students and historically disadvantaged learners continue to lag behind those of students who are white or of traditional age. Like Aracely, nearly 20% have dependent children. Unfortunately, too many postsecondary institutions do a poor job with today’s students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

The report also suggests that colleges need to improve recruitment and outreach to disadvantaged students, which can include steps as simple as sending a letter letting them know that they won’t need to pay the full price listed for tuition and fees. I think the lobbying world would have a lot to say about that.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The report, titled “Unblocking the Pipeline: Supporting the Retention, Progression and Promotion of Black Early-Career Academics,” was the culmination of a monthslong survey of Black ECAs by the Higher Education Policy Institute, a U.K. think tank. Both Burt and Patton Davis agree that most U.S.

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HEPI

MARCH 29, 2025

More than anywhere else in the OECD we have made higher education a one-shot deal, for young people to do as early as possible. Our schools system fails more than most in overcoming inequality and social disadvantage by the age of 18 or 19. Taxpayers now spend 6 on debt cancellation for every 1 they spend on teaching students anything.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Vice-chancellors say universities ‘essential to economic growth’ and that maintenance grants should be restored Ministers should aim for 70% of young people to continue their education after leaving school by 2040, while tuition fees in England should be increased, according to the leaders of UK’s universities. Continue reading.

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The PIE News

JUNE 19, 2024

Moreover, the west Indian state has also imposed an annual income limit of Rs 8 lakhs (£7,552) on the candidates despite the average monthly income of SC, and ST families being INR 5,000 (£47) less than non-disadvantaged categories in India. I secured admission at Harvard University for a course in MA in Education Policy and Analysis.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 19, 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, Josh Freeman, Policy Manager, and the HEPI team look back on a remarkable year in higher education policy. Today, we gaze over quite a different policy landscape from the one I wrote about this time last year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Summer Pell seems to offer particular help to disadvantaged groups. Dr. Stephen Katsinas, director of the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama According to Dr. Stephen Katsinas, director of the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama, this result is to be expected. “If

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Impact on future students Second, higher education providers should consider child poverty through its impact on future students. A recent Education Policy Institute (EPI) report showed that the gap in school attainment between the poorest and richest children in England is widening.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Now, new research—one of the largest educational studies ever performed—has revealed both the power and the limits of these programs: direct admissions led to more students applying to college, but it did not mean that more of them would actually enroll. Direct admissions is focused on eliminating those barriers,” said Odle. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2024

The educational inequities they face continue to reflect broader societal inequalities, perpetuating a cycle of disadvantage and exclusion. To honor the legacy of Brown while addressing its shortcomings, we must advocate for educational policies that are truly inclusive and equitable.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

“We can celebrate today as the day that the loophole was finally closed,” said Barmak Nassirian, vice president of higher education policy for Veterans Education Success, which helped lead the effort to rally public support for the change.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 1, 2024

A recent report by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) highlights the significant impact of these policies on furthering disparities in college access, particularly for Black, Hispanic, and low-income students. Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate race-conscious admissions practices.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It is expected to generate 750 million in Gross Value Added (GVA) and create 2,500 jobs in an area ranked among the 5% most disadvantaged in the country, according to the Indices of Multiple Deprivation. This includes: A blog by HEPI’s Director, Nick Hillman Has Devolution Gone to Far?

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HEPI

APRIL 5, 2023

I know higher education policy can be slow but the school pupils applying to higher education when the Augar report came out graduated last summer. That’s how snail-like higher education policy has been in recent years, thanks to all the political turmoil.)

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I was given the Fellowship in honour of my work on higher education policy and the-then Chair of QM, Sir Nick Montagu, gave a very nice speech about my career to that date. I am also lucky to be an Honorary Fellow of this institution. The Award ceremony was in the middle of the last decade, during a regular graduation ceremony.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JULY 17, 2023

Justine Greening says proposal to cut numbers on ‘low-value’ courses would affect less privileged students A Conservative former education secretary has criticised Rishi Sunak’s plans to limit access to university degrees in England, accusing him of “anti-levelling up in action” if he presses ahead with the policy. Continue reading.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In this first piece we begin with a focus on our work relating to socioeconomic disadvantage. The uses of data on deprivation in higher education One of the ways in which providers seek to improve equality of opportunity in education is through outreach activity.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Furthermore, the authors contend that integrating employability activities into the curriculum can serve to level the playing field for disadvantaged students. This approach will resonate with universities, as a recent survey by Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and AdvanceHE found 55% of students are in paid employment.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

” The Crest of a ‘New Wave’ In the strategic plan, the commission notes the proposal is part of a “new wave” of higher education policy focused on value rather than enrollment or degree attainment.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This is because yet another important body focused on higher education policy – the brilliant Centre for Global Higher Education ( CGHE ) – hosted an event at the UCL Institute of Education last Friday to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Dearing report’s publication.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

It was a clear indication of the shift in direction in education policy when the preparations for the new regulatory approach involved consultations, not with the universities but with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the National Audit Office. [2] Low tariff institutions have little option but to do the latter.

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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. As well as helping the HE sector to diversify provision, polytechnics were acclaimed for expanding and diversifying the student population going into higher education ( Scott, 1995 ).

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2024

Expanding access opportunities improves the capacity of higher education systems to accommodate an increasing student population and address the unique challenges faced by disadvantaged students.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We can also re-use the small boats abandoned by people traffickers to provide free cross-Channel transport for socioeconomically disadvantaged would-be students who prefer to take their chances in Europe. This will further enhance our student support measures.

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SRHE

AUGUST 21, 2023

One of the reasons behind these approaches was to ensure they widened participation to more disadvantaged and diverse groups of students who may struggle to have previously entered HE. The scalability of such approaches however is uncertain as applications to the new HEIs grow.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In an even more economically disadvantaged region Lincoln University recruited 76% of its home intake from its region and retained 71% of its graduating class in the region (Shattock and Horvath, 2023 Ch3). Of course these figures reflect the pre-and post-1992 divide and the league table perceptions of university applicants.

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Educational Systems Education Recruitment Higher Education 64

HEPI

JANUARY 1, 2025

In response to such condemnation, we pointed out that it is possible to be worried about more than one issue at a time and that, as disadvantaged girls tend to do a little better than disadvantaged boys, sex seems one important factor to consider alongside all the others when assessing outcomes.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Like many education policies enacted over the last two years, it seems the practice is here to stay. “Admissions without test scores is the new normal for this generation of college applicants,'” said Bob Schaeffer, FairTest public education director. Today, at least 1,835 U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

These students are already faced with many disadvantages. According to The Brookings Institution , a nonprofit public policy organization, first generation college students tend to come from lower-income families and complete school at a lower rate than their peers. Dr. Douglas N.

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College Disadvantaged Educational Policy Recruitment 106

HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The event was introduced by the chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Adult Education, Margaret Greenwood MP, who said that a gender pay gap and class ceiling in many sectors for disadvantaged women had been exacerbated by Covid, its aftermath and cost-of-living crisis – and this event was timely.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

There is therefore a considerable danger that universities which serve large numbers of disadvantaged students will be less inclined to take risks in admission: this will narrow, rather than widen, access and participation.

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Higher Education Education Disadvantaged Achievement 49

HEPI

JULY 31, 2023

In the spring of 2002 I approached Sir Howard Newby, recently appointed Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), where I had been Policy Director for more than 10 years, with the proposition that HEFCE might support me in establishing a think tank devoted to higher education policy analysis.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has 20 years’ experience in education policy research. The Labour Party is ahead in the polls and has been since December 2021.

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HEPI

JULY 28, 2023

The speech looks at the state of higher education in summer 2023 and ahead to the next general election, due in 2024 (or, less likely, 2025). First, despite working in higher education policy for well over 15 years and despite having visited nearly every UK university, I have never visited the University of Wolverhampton before.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And what is the role of higher education institutions in providing spaces that prepare young adults to vote and otherwise engage in civic life? In a recently published article in the journal Educational Policy , J.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

” Cocco, who also serves as chair of the university committee on educational policy, agreed. ” Physical proximity to on-campus services were deemed important for all students, including those who are first-generation, underrepresented or economically disadvantaged.

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