The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Education secretary Gillian Keegan will also squeeze funding for programmes to widen access to higher education Ministers will cut funding for performing and creative arts courses at English universities next year, which sector leaders say will further damage the country’s cultural industries. Continue reading.

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The PIE News

JULY 23, 2024

lakh crore allocation can prove to be the game changer for reforms in India’s educational infrastructure. “E-vouchers E-vouchers for education loans with interest subvention will make higher education more accessible. In fact, a major cut has been made in the budget for the higher education sector from Rs.

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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. One size doesn’t fit all in higher education. Julie Peller is the executive director of Higher Learning Advocates.

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The PIE News

MAY 24, 2023

Industry stakeholders are warning that the impact UK dependent ban for taught masters students will potentially disadvantage female students most. Full details of the planned policy change, to be implemented from January 2024, are yet to be revealed as the official statement of changes has not yet been published.

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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. This parallels findings in the U.S., I’ve felt it,” says Patton Davis. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

“Black kids are underrepresented in gifted services and overrepresented in special education services,” said report co-author Dr. Cassandra Hart, an associate professor of education policy at UC Davis. percentage points with they have Black teachers instead, an 18% reduction in likelihood. percentage point reduction. “We

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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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

” For-profit institutions are required to bring in 10 percent of their revenue from nonfederal sources—a market viability test stemming from the 1992 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965. service members and veterans,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement.

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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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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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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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SRHE

AUGUST 21, 2023

by Katherine Emms The 2017 Higher Education and Research Act (HERA) enabled new and innovative HE providers to enter and establish themselves, with the aim of diversifying the HE sector. Katherine Emms is a Senior Education and Policy Researcher at the Edge Foundation.

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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

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.) The stretch on resources.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: Amid faltering enrollment rates and increased national scrutiny of the price and worth of a college education, Colorado is weighing a new formula to measure the “economic value” of degree programs offered by the state’s public institutions of higher education.

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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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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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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

How to Enable the Employability of University Graduates , edited by Saskia Loer Hansen and Kathy Daniels, presents a compilation of best practices for enabling employability within higher education (HE). They enlist contributions from 60 authors at the forefront of employability delivery within HE. How do we measure employability?

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Naturally, one of the questions being increasingly asked of the UK higher education sector is how it is helping to resolve some of the latter issues. In this first piece we begin with a focus on our work relating to socioeconomic disadvantage.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

There were a lot of warm words expressed about both HEPI and Wonkhe at last week’s Society for Research into Higher Education ( SRHE ) event on bridging academia and policymaking. It was clear from the various senior speakers present that both organisations have filled a gap in providing accessible policy-focused information.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

For example, take the pace at which the English population can acquire higher education and skills. Many of the UK’s competitors have systems of higher education where the time taken to achieve a Bachelor’s level is much slower, which itself is a problem for them. The power of the student voice has been amplified.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

At the next level, what we used to call further and higher education will be swept away to create a new Higher Skills curriculum. We committed to a second phase of the project (HS2) through legislation in the Higher Education and Research Act in 2017. But now we need to change course. And we are it.”

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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. Rather than focussing on traditional further education provision, these establishments wholly or largely concentrated on higher education (‘advanced’) courses.

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2024

There is nothing novel about the current approaches to improving access, quality and equity in higher education. 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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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

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Policy had become centralised although institutional autonomy was pledged to be preserved. It is palpably evident that centralisation under an Office for Students (established as primarily a Regulator but replacing the UGC and its successor body, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)) is running out of road.

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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. education—from K-12 through graduate schools—should follow.” ” According to the organization’s tally, more than 1,750 higher education institutions have adopted ACT/SAT-optional policies for the fall of 2023.

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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. Available at: Click to access bis-10-1208-securing-sustainable-higher-education-browne-report.pdf.

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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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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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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. What is sparking this engagement?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“Several members of the committee felt that this percentage could be higher unless there is a clear justification for 50 percent.” ” Cocco, who also serves as chair of the university committee on educational policy, agreed. “What if that campus never sees that person and they feel even more isolated?”

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