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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. Dr. Ivory A.

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The lie of the land in higher education policy as the 2022/23 academic year draws to a close – By Nick Hillman

HEPI

I started my remarks then by noting the level of flux in higher education policy. For example, back then there was considerable uncertainty over many higher education policies. Institutions responded by recruiting far more students from places like India and Nigeria.

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Experts Discuss Equity Practices in Higher Ed Recruitment and Admissions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Along that same line, experts spent the webinar discussing strategies and recent briefs on equitable admissions in higher ed, specifically on topics such as recruitment, legacy admissions, early action practices, test-optional and test-free policies, and holistic review of student applications.

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Lunchtime Reading: Communicating the value of higher education to government in a new political era

HEPI

For higher education, a political affairs reset began long before the polls concluded. University policy briefings written, risks registered and manifestos and speeches scrutinised. Funding, policy, recruitment and rankings are all part of the how , but they aren’t the why. The mantra is Actions Not Words.

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US seeks to connect entry points to boost recruitment

The PIE News

The other is “facilitating the connections between these entry points” AIRC president Derrick Alex said the recommendations encourage US institutions to “value and promote the enormous breadth of educational options” offer in the country.

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

HEPI

They are strong on critique: on the way the Conservatives’ focus on a “knowledge-rich” curriculum has had a narrowing effect, the challenges of recruiting and retaining a strong teacher workforce and on the relationship between poor mental health and barriers to learning. All these are serious issues. appeared first on HEPI.

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Doing the dirty work of academia? Ancillary staff in higher education

SRHE

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.