Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The purpose of the age-old course syllabus remains the same — a crucial document that sets the foundation for a course by providing students with essential information, outlining expectations, and serving as a reference point throughout the semester. How do we do this?

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The PIE News

APRIL 10, 2024

Sustainable growth in international education in the UK will not be possible if the government does not “commit to a suite of evidence-informed policies” to allow for an equitable and inclusive sector, a new paper has said.

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The PIE News

MARCH 12, 2024

In addition to outlining the benefits of pathway programs for students, the document also details their beneficial impact for universities, host countries and their economies, as well as sending countries. “We should celebrate the power and impact of pathway routes in transforming lives through education,” Smith added.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Some applicants enter information about their skills, professional experience and educational achievements into an organization’s hiring platform, including information about traditional college degrees and alternative nondegree credentials. Later, they faxed the documents. Then they emailed résumés.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It comes as the NITI Aayog ’s CEO, BVR Subrahmanyam, announced at the annual FICCI Higher Education Summit that the think tank was preparing a “vision document”, which will help achieve the numbers. “One The NEP 2020 is dedicated to establishing India as a leading global hub for education.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

Stakeholders in UK higher education are exploring a range of potential funding models for undergraduate education, against a backdrop of financial sustainability concerns, course cuts and redundancies for higher education institutions. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain.

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SRHE

MARCH 19, 2025

Rachel Reeds short but comprehensive book, Surviving and Thriving in Higher Education Professional Services: a guide to success (Routledge, 2025), is both an instruction manual for the professionals it was written for and an illuminating account of what they do for the academics and students who benefit.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The organizations spearheading the campaign include the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), InsideTrack, California Competes: Higher Education for a Strong Economy and ProjectAttain! “This is about giving working adults the resources and fresh start they need to achieve their educational and career goals.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Andrew Boggs, Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies and University Clerk at Kingston University. However, higher education providers may need to consider if it should also extend to mandatory ‘training’ or developmental events for students and staff.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Image: The complaint processes at seven of the agencies charged with monitoring the quality of higher education institutions and holding them accountable are burdensome and seem designed to protect colleges, a new brief from the think tank New America argues.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

by Marie-Pierre Moreau and Lucie Wheeler Cleaning, catering and security staff fulfil an important function in maintaining and enhancing the social and material environment of higher education (HE). Yet this group has attracted limited considerations from researchers and policy-makers alike. She blogs here.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

These remarks were made by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to yesterday’s Centre for Global Higher Education ( CGHE ) event marking the recent twenty-fifth anniversary of the Dearing report. Early on, one of our first reports concerned the personal and public economic benefits of higher education.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I have learnt more from Martin than from just about anyone else in the UK higher education sector. I am delighted that the organisation I work for, the Higher Education Policy Institute, is publishing today’s report with Unipol. I hope, even in retirement, we will continue to benefit from his sagacity.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Image: The Florida Department of Education and the chancellor of the State University System of Florida gathered the leaders of nearly 40 state institutions in Tallahassee Dec. Department of Education —Florida officials are pushing ahead with plans to change accreditors as some institutions approach the end of their cycle.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer Many in higher education talk frequently of how flaws in transfer and credit mobility cost students time and money, but how that plays out is not well articulated. This can lead students to take courses that are not necessary for completion of a career-aligned credential.

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The PIE News

MARCH 26, 2024

Is it better to educate people who have strings attached to them by their own governments or to refuse to educate them?” Nick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, told The PIE News “On paper, the purity of refusal makes a lot of sense and we should of course always strive not to compromise on what we stand for.

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HEPI

JUNE 26, 2024

It articulates the principles of UK higher education for securing academic standards and assuring and enhancing quality. For a start, it’s a significantly more substantial document, encompassing much more detail and depth than its immediate predecessor.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 30, 2023

The development and use of standardized tests in higher education came out of the eugenics movement. Soares, editor of “The Scandal of Standardized Tests: Why We Need to Drop the SAT and ACT,” has documented “ the original ugly eugenic racist intention behind the SAT , aimed at excluding Jews from the Ivy League.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This work led to the publication of a long-term planning document called One Oberlin , which the general faculty and the board voted to approve in 2019. Starting in 2018, for instance, several faculty members said, the faculty helped the college avoid budget-related program cuts via an academic and administrative program review.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

It was a fascinating session because it was the first time that a number of your senior managers had been in a room together, and yet Lancaster University – like higher education institutions more generally – had continued to thrive during the worst of the pandemic. Back to the future I hope you will let me begin with some history.

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

Or might an equivalent of Cornell Tech NYC be worth creating in European higher education and research space? Hearing 2 – Higher Education and Research (A. International Higher Education in Facts and Figures 2016 (International Unit, Universities UK, 2 June 2016). Adams & K.A. Gurney, February 2016).

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Youngkin has dismissed reporting by the student-run newspaper, The Cavalier Daily , that documented how Ellis helped to bring eugenicist William Shockley to campus in February 1975 for an academic debate while Ellis was a student and a chairman of the University Union, the group that organized events for students.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

What is the Higher Education Council (HEC) in Bahrain? What is the Higher Education Council (HEC) in Bahrain? The HEC is a government-affiliated organization that was established to oversee the development of the higher education sector in Bahrain.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2023

These are far more extensive than HEFCE possessed in its role of ‘buffer’ between Government and providers of higher education and Must do Better is concerned that the OfS has been adding to them. Appeal against an OfS decision on such matters lies to the First-tier Tribunal Health, Education and Social Care Chamber (Care Standards).

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LSE Higher Education Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

As the university is reinvented by education entrepreneurs across the world, Bryan Penprase and Noah Pickus consider some of the tricky issues founders face, in this excerpt from The New Global Universities Higher education is a complex environment in which simple solutions often end up dashed on the rocks.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

” A “group of faculty,” added Burbules, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, “is not the same thing as a department. The university says it’s reviewing the Senate’s work, but the document remains advisory.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Reform of academic careers has been flagged up as a priority by the European University Association ‘vision for 2030’ document (EUA, 2021). In our book we spotlight newer pathways with a substantive focus on education, professional practice, enterprise, public engagement and knowledge exchange.

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SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

When I access the 2014 results the four profiles – overall, outputs, impact, environment – are listed on four separate documents, within which English HEIs are listed first, then Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The brief description of the moderation process in Education suggests that this may have been repeated. My bad, perhaps.

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HESA

MAY 26, 2023

If you’re in North America, you know that one of the perennial debates in higher education finance is about the efficacy of performance-based funding, or PBF, with the bulk of the academic evidence suggesting in one way or another that such schemes do not achieve their purported aims. So the distinction is in the mix.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The Ohio Senate has passed a controversial piece of legislation that would significantly reshape the state's public higher education system. During the Senate's Higher Education Committee meeting, more than 200 people appeared in person to oppose the legislation, with an additional 600 individuals submitting written testimony against it.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: The Education Department is planning to use undercover agents—known as “secret shoppers”—to monitor colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid for potentially deceptive practices. The department’s decision to use secret shoppers is “four decades overdue,” he said.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The speaker of these words was the then Minister for Higher and Further Education, Michelle Donelan and the sentiment underpins many of the current mechanisms used for assessing quality in English HE. This change might affect English HE in the same way as it did when introduced to the further education (FE) sector.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Martin Williams is Chair of the University of Cumbria and a former higher education policy official in the Department for Education. A new government, due to publish its own vision for higher education later this year, has the chance to commission such an evaluation. Perhaps we are indeed on the way to that golden age.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Departments of Education and Justice have published their guidance on the Supreme Court’s race-conscious admissions ruling, offering clarity to colleges and applicants about the post-affirmative action landscape. Secretary of Education The releases make clear that this is not true—at least in the executive branch’s interpretation.

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GlobalHigherEd

JANUARY 14, 2018

Morshidi was the former Director-General of Higher Education Malaysia, and is now Director of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Facility (CTEF) based at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. Morshidi is also a Senior Research Fellow at the National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN), Universiti Sains Malaysia.

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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. Phoenix wasn’t just synonymous with for-profit higher education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Drumm McNaughton This episode of Washington Update discusses overdue HEA reauthorization, major policy changes, the next Negotiated Rulemaking, and more! Insights on New Policies in Higher Education This episode of Washington Update examines the dire need for HEA reauthorization.

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