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Decentralisation and the case for moving to a tertiary education system

SRHE

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. The system is too large, too bureaucratic and too monocentric.

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Leveraging European Partnerships in Medical Education

HEPI

The United Kingdom faces a critical shortage of medical professionals , a problem exacerbated by the limited availability of medical school places. The Problem: Limited Medical Education Opportunities in the UK UK medical schools are oversubscribed, with only a fraction of applicants securing a place each year.

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Could the medical classroom do with a healthy dose of politics?

LSE Higher Education Blog

I have found myself in these sorts of conversations often over the last year, as I take time out of the long clinical hours I am accustomed to as a South African doctor to pursue a research degree in the melting pot of cultures and professional backgrounds that is UK graduate education. However, alongside these barriers sit solutions.

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The Pros and Cons of Standards-Based Grading

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 2 minutes Standards-based grading (SBG) has been ingrained in the American education system for over a century. It has been a determining factor in students’ admissions to colleges, law schools, medical schools, and even driver’s licenses.

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The Pros and Cons of Standards-Based Grading

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 2 minutes Standards-based grading (SBG) has been ingrained in the American education system for over a century. It has been a determining factor in students’ admissions to colleges, law schools, medical schools, and even driver’s licenses.

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Universities 4.0 and their role in driving place-based innovation for socio-economic transformation

HEPI

We are in a time of evolving views on the value of traditional higher education and its relevance to what students should learn, the skills needed by employers and investments by governments. envisions data-driven technological innovation to enable new models of enterprise and leadership in higher education. Universities 4.0

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(Podcast) #28- Importance of collaborative effort in supporting international students with Wendy, Cassie and Danielle

ACPA

I’m specifically supporting master’s students in the Peabody College of Education and Human Development. And then my office also, and also one of my role is leading a transition class called EDUC classes for the first year international students who has not been in the United States before. So I’m Danielle Lewis.