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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Yet the humanity of formerly incarcerated Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab students is too often marginalized, even overlooked, in campus programs addressing issues like food and housing insecurity. That is largely because these justice-impacted students are often invisible to educators, their identities simply erased.

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Challenging climate hypocrisy in higher education learning and teaching 

HEPI

For example, in UK tertiary education (further education and higher education), the largest sources of travel emissions are student flights , but there has been limited focus on the emissions stemming from learning and teaching, particularly fieldtrips, which this post is keen to reflect on.

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Turing funding timeline in UK causing participants to drop out

The PIE News

The research found that less than half of higher education participants – 45% – felt the funding provided by Turing covered at least half of their costs on placement. This figure was higher for further education and vocational education and training participants at 86%.

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Is England really the world champion in overqualification?

HEPI

If accurate, this statistic seems to reflect a substantial waste of human capital and raises questions about the state of the UK labour market and education system. England’s education system is not producing “too many” graduates. Simplistic diagnoses risk distracting from the real challenges.

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Who’s in the new UK cabinet – and what do they mean for intled?

The PIE News

And she said Lammy is known for his “progressive realism” “I think it’s a view of taking British human rights and all the best bits of the UK overseas, but with an eye on the reality of world and the global complexities of global security,” she explained. What can we expect? What can we expect?

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Greater width and greater depth: changing higher education in an electronic age

HEPI

In short, the world is fast-changing not only around higher education but in the depths of higher education in ways not yet fully appreciated. And some signs of change are apparent.In Now, life-long learning is more urgent than ever, but the necessary depth and width of the matters it prompts are hardly to be seen or heard.

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An Apology for the Liberal Arts

HEPI

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. A liberal arts education is what a society — a civilisation — ought to champion. Yet, this picture is a sham.