HEPI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

She has a BA in Classics and Economics from Brown University and an MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy from the University of Oxford. What is the purpose of a university education? A liberal arts education is what a society — a civilisation — ought to champion. Here, she writes about US liberal arts degrees.

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HEPI

MARCH 13, 2025

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. (Is Fundamental here is the idea of higher education. And some signs of change are apparent.In

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Robocolleges prioritize profit over pedagogy, churning out ambitious and busy working-class professionals in fields like education, medicine, and business and hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt. The Robocollege Model Robocolleges are characterized by their reliance on technology to deliver education at scale.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

John Holford reflects on the funding for adult education enabled by the first Labour government a century ago, and hopes for something similar today. Plus letters from Ian Barge, Jennifer Basannavar and Jenny Braithwaite Jonathan Michie is, as usual, spot-on in arguing for universities to provide adult education.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

by Rob Cuthbert The leader’s speech to Conference was expected to include far-reaching proposals for higher and further education. Universities are overcrowded, because too many students want to be in higher education. We obtained this leaked text of an early draft: “It is time for radical change.

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HEPI

MAY 27, 2024

The role that Higher Education institutions play in delivering the green skills needed to support the green workforce transformation.is However, Universities and our graduates have a crucial role to play and it is vital that we get this across. often not given much coverage. from QAA) and demand from students.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

HEPI held an event at the Labour Party Conference with kind support from the University of Nottingham and the University of Sussex. Having returned from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool and dried out our shoes, bags and umbrellas, we round up the higher education themes we heard from three days of debate and discussion.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

by Michael Shattock From decentralised to centralised Until 1919 UK universities, except Oxbridge and Durham, were primarily civic institutions created by wealthy citizens and governed by councils strongly represented by the founders and by local authorities and the local industrial community.

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WCET Frontiers

APRIL 20, 2023

Challenges to AI as a Tool for Equity Algorithmic bias and the “New Jim Code” In her 2019 work, Race After Technology , Princeton University sociologist Ruha Benjamin wrote about what she calls the “New Jim Code” and the problem of data and algorithmic bias. ChatGPT can be used to revise text for grammatical correctness and clarity.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The University of Texas at Austin advertises career transition guides designed to help graduate and post-doctoral students learn more about potential careers. The University’s guides can be divided and filtered by discipline, industry, and top skills, allowing students to learn about career options easily and in one place.

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Professional Development Arts And Sciences Recruitment Further Education 52

EAB

APRIL 17, 2023

Petersburg College and Monroe College ) reporting bachelor’s-level completions under the CIP code 52.2211 (“Health Services Administration”) and three reporting completions under 52.0701 (“Health Care/Health Management Administration”): Purdue University Global , Florida International University , and University of Central Florida.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

The British Academy points to ‘the impact and value research’ in the humanities and related disciplines ‘can deliver to policy makers and the wider public’. A Concordat and Agreements Review (April 2023) formed a joint attempt to define ‘research culture’ initiated by Universities UK, UKRI and Wellcome. Oxford and Cambridge took note.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

On 27 February 2023, students at the University of Oxford begin a referendum on whether their Students’ Union should disaffiliate from the National Union of Students (NUS). Over 30 years ago, I helped run an NUS disaffiliation campaign at the University of Manchester. Like all good political campaigns, it was huge fun.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Twenty-five years ago, I was a PhD student at the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, provided with access to ‘new Labour’ policymaking process by David Blunkett MP, then the Shadow Education Secretary and an alumni of our department. Lessons from the past. But this is not so.

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