HEPI

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

This blog has been kindly written by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of London Higher, the representative body for more than 40 universities and higher education colleges across the capital.

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Advise Higher Education Advocate Further Education 145

HEPI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

What is the purpose of a university education? It dismisses the extent to which the study of Art History (or another subject in the humanities, social sciences, or physical sciences) within a liberal arts framework can profoundly enrich an individual and society. Only a liberal arts education can properly perform these functions.

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Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Computer Science History 106

Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The rise of online-only education has been a double-edged sword. While it has expanded access to higher education, it has also introduced a new breed of institutions (robocolleges), students (robostudents), and workers (roboworkers). A list of America's largest robocolleges is here.

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Higher Education Faculty Guidance Further Education 84

SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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. Policy had become centralised although institutional autonomy was pledged to be preserved.

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Educational Systems Education Recruitment Higher Education 64

The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

John Holford reflects on the funding for adult education enabled by the first Labour government a century ago, and hopes for something similar today. Plus letters from Ian Barge, Jennifer Basannavar and Jenny Braithwaite Jonathan Michie is, as usual, spot-on in arguing for universities to provide adult education. So it was in 1924.

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Adult Education Humanities Achievement Administration 69

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. Still others are climate refugees in search of land that supports human life. Others have fled wars in Syria or Ukraine.

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University Model Higher Education Faculty 112

SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

by Rob Cuthbert The leader’s speech to Conference was expected to include far-reaching proposals for higher and further education. At the next level, what we used to call further and higher education will be swept away to create a new Higher Skills curriculum. Just the best education system in the Western world.

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Arts And Sciences Humanities Higher Education Disadvantaged 64

HEPI

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Having returned from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool and dried out our shoes, bags and umbrellas, we round up the higher education themes we heard from three days of debate and discussion. The new Government is a big fan of higher education. Do we detect yet another enquiry into the future of higher education?)

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Higher Education Policy Achievement Provost 77

WCET Frontiers

APRIL 20, 2023

The higher education press continues to increase its coverage with multiple articles , blogs , and op-ed pieces in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Education among other outlets. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology , “Technology can be a powerful tool for transformation learning.

Equity 52

Equity Technology Humanities Higher Education 52

EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Twenty-two percent of adult learners we surveyed said internships, co-ops, and other active-learning experiences help convey the value of education when they are selecting a graduate or adult-serving programs. And of course, make sure to advertise these experiential learning opportunities prominently. Adult learner recruitment 2.

Professional Development 52

Professional Development Arts And Sciences Recruitment Further Education 52

EAB

APRIL 17, 2023

online delivery, weekend classes) appeal to students concerned with balancing family and work-related commitments with further education. Offering flexible, asynchronous options allows students to complete courses on their own schedule, which may encourage busy adult students to continue their education and increase enrollments.

Administration 52

Administration Recruitment Provost Further Education 52

SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. The Royal Society adopts the same wording. Nevertheless, agreed definition seems elusive.

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Allocate Higher Education Arts And Sciences Degree 52

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.

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Higher Education Administration Education Policy 68

HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Nonetheless, the disaffiliation campaign was really about the theatre of student politics – especially among us middle-class arts and humanities students. A few years later, I found myself working for a senior government minister (David Willetts) with responsibility for higher education who had a soft spot for the NUS and its leadership.

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Students Arts And Sciences Higher Education Educational Policy 142