Sun.Oct 13, 2024

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UK university cuts threaten to ‘wipe out’ black scholarship, academics say

The Guardian Higher Education

Critics say courses are being closed that played a leading role in addressing racial disparities in higher education Black scholarship in the UK risks being wiped out due to redundancies and course closures, leading academics have warned. Universities in England are engulfed in a financial crisis and have in response implemented a number of cost-cutting measures.

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Guild (Education) No Longer Glitters: Layoffs, Toxic Work Environment, Questionable Acquisition

Higher Education Inquirer

Here's our latest analysis of Guild (formerly Guild Education) based on a limited amount of publicly available data. Guild is a third party provider of adult education from a number of non-profit and for-profit companies connecting companies like Walmart and Target with schools like Purdue University Global (Purdue University's robocollege). At one time, Guild Education was receiving a substantial amount of positive press, which put them on our radar.