Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Now, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce has released a report on the potential impacts of the decision and how higher ed and governments can react. Ultimately, the report says, such policies could help improve public support for colleges and universities. Money, again, is a problem.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

Indeed, significant numbers of today’s college students no longer conform to the traditional notion of someone in their late teens or early 20s who matriculated to a four-year university straight out of high school. A third of today’s college students are 25 and older, and more than a third of undergraduates are part-time students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Yet another noticed anti-Black racism increase at their institution when the university publicly declared its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The report’s lead researcher, Dr. Becca Franssen, is a partner at the British talent-search firm GatenbySanderson, where she helps British universities fill executive roles.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This book review was kindly authored for the HEPI blog by Obinna Okereke , Project Manager for Student Experience at Coventry University. 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).

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Regardless of the taskforce’s recommendations, higher education policymakers and institutions should consider the effects of child poverty on our sector and to explore potential actions we can take to address it. There are three ways that child poverty matters for universities and colleges. percentage points.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Now, a new study from the Community College Research Center at Columbia University has shown that summer Pell has had meaningful benefits, improving retention, attainment, and even earnings up to nine years after college entry for students who received it. Summer Pell seems to offer particular help to disadvantaged groups.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Part of a direct admissions acceptance letter from the College App and George Mason University Direct admissions are an increasingly popular tool for those looking to entice more people to apply to college and to close racial and financial gaps. A fee waiver is included, to boot. Data was obtained on the choices of almost 32,000 students.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

“These new rules crack down on some of the most deceptive practices we see in higher education, such as predatory marketing tactics that target U.S. service members and veterans,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement.

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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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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.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by John Raftery, Principal of John Raftery and Associates and former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Wolverhampton and London Metropolitan University. English universities are, by many measures, consistently among the very best in the world, outperforming most if not all other competitors.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 1, 2024

Despite this shift, many colleges and universities still favor applicants with familial ties to alumni. 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.

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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

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.) You can register your place here.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Janine Davidson, president of Metropolitan State University of Denver, said that given the state’s declining higher ed enrollment, shortage of teachers and health-care workers , and a budget crisis caused by decades of state disinvestment , placing a numeric value on degree programs seems like a low priority.

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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. And HEPI published its best-read report of the year, Provide or punish?

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Higher Education Education Policy Disadvantaged 57

HEPI

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The main character, an academic called Pearson, complains that, in this alternative world, the purpose of university is to test the faculty and not the students. The collapse in standards pleases the lazy but applications from ambitious international students plummet, leaving universities in financial peril. Merry Christmas!

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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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University Business

APRIL 9, 2024

Higher education’s best differentiator is delivering on the promise of quality for students. 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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SRHE

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

by Kat Emms For two years Edge Foundation has been drawing together lessons from past education policies. The polytechnics policy was based on an economic need to equip the workforce with the vocational, professional and industrially-based expertise it required, particularly in the face of international competition.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Universities are overcrowded, because too many students want to be in higher education. The Labour government pursued the false dream of 50 per cent of children going to university … one of the great mistakes of the last 30 years. The result is a project whose costs have more than doubled, which has been repeatedly delayed.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

by Michael Shattock From decentralised to centralised Until 1919 UK universities, except Oxbridge and Durham, were primarily civic institutions created by wealthy citizens and governed by councils strongly represented by the founders and by local authorities and the local industrial community.

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Educational Systems Education Recruitment Higher Education 60

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. We spoke to founders, directors, senior leadership team members and those involved in setting up a new university and developing the first programmes.

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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. colleges and universities have implemented test-optional or test-free admissions, according to the most recent data provided by FairTest , an organization that advocates for fair and equitable applications of standardized testing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

The data offers new insight on the contributing factors for the spike decline in enrollment at community college and universities across the country. These students are already faced with many disadvantages. Krutz said that colleges and universities have to do a better job developing recruitment tactics developed for this demographic.

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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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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The simple truth is that the average student leaves university with £45,800 of debt and if they have nothing to show for it then we have failed them” (Hansard, 2021). by Peter Wolstencroft, Elizabeth Whitfield and Track Dinning.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Image: The University of California system has never had any fully online undergraduate degree programs at any of its 10 campuses. That loophole was closed this month when the University of California Academic Senate approved Senate Regulations 610 and 630, which instituted an undergraduate residency requirement.

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Degree University Arts And Sciences Equity 142

HEPI

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The devolution of higher education policy beyond Westminster seems here to stay. Higher education is arguably the one area where the devolved institutions have flexed their muscles the most. Scotland Higher education policy has been a totemic issue in elections to the Scottish Parliament. But has it succeeded?

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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. Lessons from the past.

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HEPI

JULY 28, 2023

This is an extract from a speech delivered this week by HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, to the Board of the University of Wolverhampton (with apologies to local band Slade for the title and to Alice Cooper for the subtitles). That was very recently rectified and so it is fantastic to welcome you as HEPI’s newest University Partner.

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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. Not all colleges and universities promote activism. Equalizing Decision-Making Power.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: As recently as 2015, the University of Phoenix enrolled more than 400,000 learners, making it not only the center of the for-profit higher education universe but the biggest university in the United States by far. Inside Higher Ed : It’s important for us to stipulate just how much we don’t know.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

Given the number of anti-trans bills put forth in state legislatures across the country recently, politicians may bring up the topic during this election cycle, says Dr. Heath Davis, a political science professor at Temple University and author of the book Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter ? “I 12, 2022 – garnered 240,203.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Dr. Robert Kelchen, professor and head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, says the administration will likely reintroduce the rule in 2024 using a negotiated rulemaking process. That rule will likely, immediately get challenged in court,” says Kelchen.

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