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Cultivating global learner ownership from high school to higher education

The PIE News

This can range from using STEM skills to create solutions for issues around climate change, in the fields of medicine and engineering, or in the productive use of artificial intelligence – to the societal and economic challenges of a globalised society, where world conflict and economic distress can be felt across borders.

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Why not HE? The reasons those from under-represented backgrounds decide against university

SRHE

All participants were in the final year of their level 3 programmes and on courses that would qualify them for university entry, if they chose this option. They included concerns over the cost of university-level study. Neil Raven is an educational consultant and researcher in widening access. Online] Available at: [link].

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Is the future tertiary?

HEPI

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Alice Wilby , Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Access, Participation and Student Experience) at University College Birmingham. Widening participation: We can develop full pathway education, with progression mapped from Levels 1 to 7. How to do it?

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As microcredentials boom, employers' hiring platforms fumble

Inside Higher Ed

But it turns out that employers’ own hiring platforms and third-party intermediaries often act as barriers to matching the right talent to the right positions, according to a recent Northeastern University report. Of those that do, none afford recruiters the opportunity to verify the skills.

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Inside Higher Ed's best-read content of 2022

Inside Higher Ed

"UCLA Pummeled Over Adjunct Job Without Pay:" This headline largely speaks for itself: the University of California, Los Angeles, last spring announced its desire to hire an "assistant adjunct professor on a without salary basis. .' " That question loomed over federal higher education policy for much of 2022.

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

GlobalHigherEd

Post-EU Referendum turmoil in the UK (and the EU) continues, for all sorts of reasons, but soon more serious and sustained assessment of the post-Brexit landscape for UK universities will occur. In such a context here is the question to consider: is an Oxbridge-Lille (a joint Cambridge-Oxford university) or equivalent (e.g.,

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State of Black America Report Focuses on Extremism

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If we do not interrupt it, then our efforts to impact issues like economic policy and education policy will be academic exercises.” And although new laws create incentives to hire minoritized workers, a diverse workforce will have to be recruited and trained.

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