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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. Among the issues addressed are reading academic text and managing assignments, which can be especially challenging when the students are still developing their command of English. Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino.

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Rising Inflation and the Impending Tuition Squeeze

Robert Kelchen

The higher education industry is far from immune from the effects of an inflationary cycle that was largely unexpected even a few months ago. Midyear adjustments in student charges are highly unusual and typically only happen if a state withholds previously promised funding during a recession. They’re stuck with what they can get.

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Irregulation: is the Office for Students fit for purpose?

SRHE

by Rob Cuthbert, SRHE News Editor The House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has decided to investigate the OfS. How has this framework developed over time, and what impacts has this had on higher education providers? What is the nature of the relationship between the OfS and the Government?

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The private ‘alternative providers’ encouraged by Governments in the first decades of the twenty-first century have rarely made a significant effort to be research-active so far. Governments have actively encouraged ‘Knowledge Exchange’. Providers were to ‘specialise in working with industry and employers’.

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The agreements raised questions, as the Times put it, “about whether promoting gambling on campus—especially to people who are at an age when they are vulnerable to developing gambling disorders—fits the mission of higher education.” Their contracts have raised a number of ethical and policy flags.

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Must do better:  making the Office for Students accountable

SRHE

by GR Evans The House of Lords Committee on Industry and Regulators pulls no punches in Must do better. These are far more extensive than HEFCE possessed in its role of ‘buffer’ between Government and providers of higher education and Must do Better is concerned that the OfS has been adding to them. Bloomsbury Institute Ltd.

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The Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Higher Education

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It’s these long-term developments, processes and trends, which take place under the surface, that even the most powerful politicians or institutions must respond to. million in federal relief funding. How about industry credentials: Are these replacing traditional degrees? But what government gives, it can take away.