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Education Department Revises Restrictions on Race Initiatives

Insight Into Diversity

Department of Education has modified its previous directives on race in hiring, scholarships, student programs, and other educational policies. Since coming into power, the new administration has focused on enforcing conservative legal principles in education, particularly regarding race and gender policies.

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How Project 2025’s War on Higher Education Diversity Threatens Our Global Competitiveness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The recently released "Project 2025: The Conservative Promise" paints a dystopian picture of American higher education, overrun by a "woke" ideology that supposedly threatens our nation's very foundations. The document's authors misrepresent the origins of progressive thought in education.

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UKCISA calls for more evidence-informed policies

The PIE News

. “[Future strategy] must be developed across all relevant departments, including the Home Office” Working rights for international students in higher education should be standardised at 20 hours per week during their studies, the document added.

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The holy grail of credit transfer?

HEPI

Research in the US exposed conflicting sources of information, guidance documentation that is difficult for students to digest, and protocols which place the onus firmly on students to show they have the requisite learning. It turns out that the US perhaps doesnt have it entirely figured out after all.

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Labour’s education policy is brave, but can they fund it?

HEPI

It’s a rallying call against inequality of opportunity and unfair access to education which prevents potential from being realised. Labour’s goal is brave, and their approach is compelling, but there is more big thinking to be done on how to design tough policies which truly shatter that ceiling when resources are so constrained.

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As microcredentials boom, employers' hiring platforms fumble

Inside Higher Ed

“There’s valuable educational and skill information hiding in plain sight with regard to some of these candidates,” said Sean Gallagher, executive professor of educational policy at Northeastern University and a co-author of the study. Later, they faxed the documents. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Pathways add around £830m to UK economy – NCUK report

The PIE News

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. “As a sector, we have an issue around no longer collecting enough data on international graduate outcomes,” he said.