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Abolish GCSEs, put people’s IQs on their credit cards and ban the Harvard Women’s Rugby Team? What we were reading about education in 2024

HEPI

The sport, Gladwell says, was tailor-made for a little bit of extra social engineering. That says, We will expect our higher education providers to: Play a stronger role in expanding access and improving outcomes for disadvantaged students. In fact, the proportion of everyone at Harvard stayed basically the same.

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Weekend Reading: Rethinking the Cost of Higher Education – A Lecture Revisited

HEPI

‘As the economy rebalances, we will need more highly-skilled employees, particularly for young people with science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) degrees, but businesses are struggling to recruit good graduates from the UK.’ Taxpayers now spend 6 on debt cancellation for every 1 they spend on teaching students anything.

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Challenges Persist for Early-Career Black Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Challenges facing women in post-study jobs, retraining and skills following the pandemic

HEPI

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.