Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Believe in Students , a national nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab, is providing faculty, staff and managers with actionable strategies to address college students’ basic needs. “How the new majority of students attends and experiences higher education is poorly understood by the American public and constantly given short shrift by mainstream media,” said Goldrick-Rab.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Updated accountability measures aim to get school leavers to look at wider range of institutions and vocational options The government will no longer measure schools in England on how many of their students go to Russell Group or Oxbridge universities, in an effort to encourage school leavers towards a wider range of universities and vocational options.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 26, 2024

The tenants of teaching and learning – formative assessment, discussion and teacher feedback – are as present in asynchronous online settings as in-person ones. Robert Zaretsky, in his recent article “The Absurdity of Asynchrony" (Oct.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Research and development is an investment, not a cost, and if the UK is to maintain its world-leading position it must commit to long-term funding The research sector has been a consistent, if sometimes undervalued, UK success story, with countless examples of breakthroughs that have transformed our understanding of the world and the way we live in it, and contributed significantly to our health and wealth.

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