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An Apology for the Liberal Arts

HEPI

Here, she writes about US liberal arts degrees. What is the purpose of a university education? If nothing else, the common wisdom is clear about what a student should avoid: a course in the liberal arts. What job could a person possibly get with an Art History degree, for instance?

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Flexible Learning Pathways – a new HE or something else?

HEPI

The ‘where’ question is also changing, partly because of the growth in providers of higher education, not just reflecting the arrival of many new universities, but also the provision of higher education in further education colleges and other institutions. Higher education is everywhere.

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Strikes disrupt undergraduate learning anew

Inside Higher Ed

We know our faculty wish to avoid any further educational disruptions to graduate students and undergraduate students who have experienced so many disruptions in recent years. But this, too, was voluntary and not part of students’ official coursework.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. The guilds all controlled their membership and awarded their own qualifications.

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Debt Collective Erases Nearly $10M of Morehouse College Debt

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The no-strings gift, which eliminates 2,777 accounts for the Fall 2022 term and prior, will enable thousands of Black men to receive their diplomas, access their transcript, pursue further education and move on with their lives, said organizers. The Debt Collective have called on the Biden administration to cancel all student debt.