Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

AACTE officials said that this year’s theme, “Ascending New Heights: Propelling the Profession into the Future,” aligns with the association’s vision and mission “to revolutionize education for all learners by elevation education and educator preparation through research, professional practice, advocacy, and collaboration.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

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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The Guardian - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Vice-chancellors and admissions officers said a rise in the number of inquiries about courses and feedback from overseas recruitment agents suggested that the change in the government’s stance since the 4 July election had been widely noticed by potential international students and their families. Continue reading.

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

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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The PIE News

AUGUST 25, 2023

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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HEPI

JULY 24, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Sir Chris Husbands, Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University. Keir Starmer has committed Labour to five ambitious missions, of which the fifth is squarely focused on educational transformation. The post Labour’s education policy is brave, but can they fund it?

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

Staff at the Russell Group university were told: “In response to the current financial challenges, the university has decided to lower its tariff for all departments and programmes for overseas applicants,” according to an email reported by the Financial Times. Continue reading.

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The PIE News

MAY 2, 2024

Universities in the UK, Australia and Canada have announced staff layoffs and course suspensions as government policies limiting international student numbers cause increasing financial strain.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This book review was kindly authored for the HEPI blog by Obinna Okereke , Project Manager for Student Experience at Coventry University. How to Enable the Employability of University Graduates , edited by Saskia Loer Hansen and Kathy Daniels, presents a compilation of best practices for enabling employability within higher education (HE).

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The PIE News

JANUARY 15, 2024

On the heels of India’s National Education Policy 2020, a recent think tank run by the government of India highlights the country’s dedication to establishing the region as a leading global hub of education with an emphasis on continued internationalisation and collaboration with foreign institutions.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As a policy area, it has evolved to incorporate a wide range of both policy sectors and policy actors on the federal level: GAC; Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC); Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC); and Research and Innovation. Creating consensus among all those diverse actors is difficult.

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The PIE News

JULY 31, 2024

Emphasising the need to have patience while building partnerships between Indian and international universities, Meena Saxena, director, International Linkages, NMIMS, highlighted that the relationship would “never be equal from the very start” at The PIE in Mumbai conference on July 26.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Now, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce has released a report on the potential impacts of the decision and how higher ed and governments can react. Ultimately, the report says, such policies could help improve public support for colleges and universities. Money, again, is a problem.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students. Dr. Ivory A.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This discourse has been dominated by perspectives of the “winners and losers” across the public universities – where proposed caps maintain 2023 volumes of around 145,000 new international enrolments but seek to re-allocate these across the 38 university providers. What’s a NUHEP and how many are there?

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Lucette Roovers, director of global engagement at Breda University of Applied Sciences , told The PIE the “stay rate” of international students has been a focal point of the ongoing international student debate in the Netherlands. Previously, only around 20% of international students did so.

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The PIE News

APRIL 19, 2023

India’s National Forensic Sciences University has become the first state institution to launch a campus abroad in the East African country of Uganda. It comes just a month after it was announced that India was drafting regulations for universities on setting up overseas campuses in Africa and Asia.

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The PIE News

MARCH 22, 2024

New powers under Section 97 of the ESOS Act also come into force on March 23, which will allow authorities to suspend high risk education providers from recruiting international students. English language requirements for student visas will rise from IELTS 5.5 and graduate visas from IELTS 6.0

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The whole sector came together – universities large and small, ancient and modern, comprehensive urban institutions and specialist providers – to speak with one voice. Only the global tensions around immigration and the place of international education within that – which are certainly not unique to the UK – require ongoing vigilance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2023

Supreme Court eliminated race-conscious admissions policies at the end of June, colleges and universities began preparing for the inevitable blow to their on-campus diversity. So, a press release last week from the University of California (UC) system may have felt like a ray of hope. After the U.S. of admits).

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Image: After years of lobbying, the so-called 90-10 loophole that advocates argued encouraged some for-profit institutions to aggressively recruit military service members and veterans is closing under final regulations effective July 1 that were announced Thursday.

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The PIE News

APRIL 28, 2023

The University of Essex recently sent a delegation of its professional services staff to India for a unique immersion trip designed to develop a deeper understanding, knowledge and empathy of the challenges students face from the country.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

If the Bill doesn’t go through the Senate, then the de facto cap, which is Ministerial Direction 107, stays Jason Clare, education minister “If the Bill doesn’t go through the Senate, then the de facto cap, which is Ministerial Direction 107, stays,” said Clare.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 27, 2024

In a joint media release , ministers said that independent providers will be allocated 30,000 new student commencements, while public universities will receive an allocation of around 145,000. Education minister Jason Clare suggested providers in the vocational education sector will see the largest reductions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

“Black kids are underrepresented in gifted services and overrepresented in special education services,” said report co-author Dr. Cassandra Hart, an associate professor of education policy at UC Davis. school system to diversify its educator workforce more, Hart said. “I Most teachers are not Black.”

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The change of Government in July 2024 brought a new Secretary of State in the person of Bridget Phillipson but no fresh Letter of Guidance before she spoke in the Commons in a Higher Education debate on 4 November, 2024. That, she suggested, would be needed to ensure that universities would be ‘there for them to attend’ in future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. Black student enrollment, for example, went up 2.3% in Hispanic enrollment.

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The PIE News

JULY 5, 2024

“There are certainly UK universities that are very close to announcing their India branch campuses,” some being months or even “weeks away”, Avantika Tomar, partner at EY Parthenon Education Practice told delegates of India Week’s Education Innovation conference on July 3.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book brings together 55 different authors – including academics, a vice-chancellor and numerous education policy experts (such as Sam Freedman, Lord Lucas, Jonathan Simons , Ann Mroz and Tom Richmond). Another head, Jesse Elzinga, kicks out at universities’ entry procedures for encouraging depth over breadth.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. Colleges and universities that have received the Seal of Excelencia enroll 17% of Latino students in the U.S. and graduate 19%.

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The PIE News

APRIL 10, 2024

The latest release of immigration risk ratings for international education providers in Australia has raised questions about the best approach to ensure the sustainability of the sector. Reports have estimated universities are already out of pocket by more than AUS$300 million.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2024

The educational inequities they face continue to reflect broader societal inequalities, perpetuating a cycle of disadvantage and exclusion. To honor the legacy of Brown while addressing its shortcomings, we must advocate for educational policies that are truly inclusive and equitable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Now, the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), a nonpartisan nonprofit promoting post-secondary access and success, is publishing lessons learned from its ongoing attempts to build a better, more equitable transfer system.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 9, 2023

. “The SII Portal, a one-stop platform, will simplify a student’s academic journey in India,” said Dharmendra Pradhan, India’s minister of education. Pradhan cited the country’s balanced offering between affordability and quality education.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

What do I want to see from the Labour Government in relation to higher education? Firstly, I want a proper, grown-up conversation about what the UK Government wants the English higher education sector to look like. (As Do we want a world-class higher education system?

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by John Raftery, Principal of John Raftery and Associates and former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Wolverhampton and London Metropolitan University. English universities are, by many measures, consistently among the very best in the world, outperforming most if not all other competitors.

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