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by GR Evans The Office for Students has found that the Trans and Non-Binary Equality Policy Statement of the University of Sussex involves breach of two of the relevant OfS Regulatory Requirements in late March 2025, and imposed an unprecedentedly substantial fine. The Higher Education and Research Act (2017) s.3(8)(a)
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Department of Education has modified its previous directives on race in hiring, scholarships, student programs, and other educationalpolicies. Since coming into power, the new administration has focused on enforcing conservative legal principles in education, particularly regarding race and gender policies.
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.
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.
It’s a rallying call against inequality of opportunity and unfair access to education which prevents potential from being realised. Sure Start, the Blair Government’s signature policy to provide wrap-around support for new parents and children in the early years, was one of the earliest victims of austerity. appeared first on HEPI.
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.
“There’s valuable educational and skill information hiding in plain sight with regard to some of these candidates,” said Sean Gallagher, executive professor of educationalpolicy at Northeastern University and a co-author of the study. Later, they faxed the documents. Is this diversity newsletter?:
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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. That review will include several of the issues raised in the New America report.
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For example, a January document from Department officials says SARA allows institutions “to evade State rules and leverages its veto power to override any proposed changes to current distance educationpolicy.
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The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. Some of it has been documented. No one has documented the full-length of the terrain. Higher education has evolved in terms of technology, but it still reflects much of what is wrong with America.
It is well documented that many students will base their choices on university standings , purposefully selecting universities that are in the top 100 of world rankings. 16 of the report), mental health, sense of belonging, and divisive university-level language policies may all have an impact. 40) could achieve.
There are well-documented challenges with a full return to high-stakes exams, but we need to weigh up the different options carefully. The final point to make on tech, however, is that we must not forget the humans.
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Andrew Boggs, Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher EducationPolicy Studies and University Clerk at Kingston University. It could also have an added benefit of evidencing good faith consideration of a complaint that finds its way to the courts.
I hope a good example of how we’ve tried to maintain our independence at HEPI since that time is the sort of documents that we publish: we are unlike the bigger and more political think tanks based in London, which tend to push one part of the political spectrum, as we publish reports from across the board.
I am delighted that the organisation I work for, the Higher EducationPolicy Institute, is publishing today’s report with Unipol. Martin’s work on the Codes , which drive up standards, is just one very clear example of how he has never lost sight of the needs of student tenants.
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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. university policies and procedures) as presented is also decolonized. Dr. Donna Y.
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Paul’s piece is a takedown of a controversial new book about the demise of grammar schools and we have separately run a flattering review of the same book by a grammar school teacher – showing yet again that HEPI’s purpose is to stimulate debate as a way of improving policy rather than lobbying for any one position or another.
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“Departments as such should avoid statements on what we call here ‘external’ matters (state, national, or international policy matters),” the guidelines say. The guidelines are friendlier to departmental utterances about internal matters, namely the unit’s core academic research, teaching and university policy.
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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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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 EducationPolicy 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.
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.
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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. So they take 80+ pages, lots of paper, lots of ink, but I can’t work with screen based data. My bad, perhaps.
Among the bill's supporters were representatives from organizations such as the National Association of Scholars, the America First Policy Institute, and Do No Harm Action. These groups align with conservative educationalpolicies and have expressed concerns about what they perceive as liberal bias in higher education.
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.
“I’m very happy to see that they are using what will prove to be a very potent tool for combating the most prevalent form of fraud, which is verbal misrepresentations in bilateral communication between recruiters and targeted victims that are very hard to document or prove after the fact,” he said.
Martin Williams is Chair of the University of Cumbria and a former higher educationpolicy official in the Department for Education. He still believes in his policies. Others, however, may ask whether that is because those policies have demonstrably worked for the public good, or because Jo does not want to question them.
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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. Kellogg Professor of Community College Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin.
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