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UAE explores further educational ties with Finland

The PIE News

As the UAE has the largest network of private schools in the world, the country has invested quite extensively in raising the standard of research and higher education. “Policymakers are focused on creating high-quality education systems making them globally recognised,” Assmoull remarked.

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Challenging climate hypocrisy in higher education learning and teaching 

HEPI

Climate hypocrisy in Higher Education The climate crisis and global attempts at strengthening the sustainable and low-carbon transition is arguably the most critical issue we face and there is clear evidence to show strong Higher Education (HE) support for this twin approach.

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The Ofsted reports that raise questions about the wider tertiary system

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A special commission from DfE saw five colleges accused of “draining public money” in further education teacher training. Michael Salmon connects the dots with higher education

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Further education colleges in England face losing financial independence

The Guardian - Higher Education

Government likely to treat FE sector as ‘big schools’, removing autonomy over borrowing and investment Further education (FE) colleges are likely to be treated as “big schools” by the government and lose critical financial independence, after a ruling reclassified colleges in England as part of central government.

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Whatever happened to all those ‘alternative providers’ of higher education? By Nick Hillman

HEPI

If this is a tenet of the Conservative approach to education, then one might assume the lengthy period of Conservative-led governments since 2010 would have ushered in a more diverse higher education sector by stimulating more independent provision. Yet today there are only 422 registered providers.

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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That is largely because these justice-impacted students are often invisible to educators, their identities simply erased. Being members of an unprotected class (a term used by Dr. Joe Louis Hernandez ) limits the potential for higher education to transform the lives of people affected by the justice system.

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Walking down the road to Kingdom Come: some steps away from a Higher Education Funding Crisis?

HEPI

John Cater is the longest-serving Vice-Chancellor in UK higher education, having been in post since 1993. And every cost in higher education has increased, except the tuition fee. If we do not have a sustainable sector by the end of this Parliament, for higher education the next decade could be cataclysmic.