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Critical thinking skill: Challenges faced by international students in finance degrees

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Kalsoom is a Lecturer in Business Education (Finance) at Edinburgh Business School. In the face of the debate about students lacking critical thinking skills and business programs developing new frameworks to tackle the issue, it is necessary to understand the issue from the students’ perspective. Aug 8, 2022

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Unspoken Truths: Stakeholders Share on Reddit What they Won't in Surveys

Campus Sonar

While it’s the type of opinion I expect from someone without significant lived experience in the social media ecosystem, it’s wrong. We need to be more aware, nimble, and humble than ever as a concerted effort to devalue higher education plays out in our communities.

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Grad Students Should Consider Administrative Work

Higher Ed Connects: News

Program development and delivery can be another facet of these jobs. Higher education institutions are complex organizations that function because there are offices that handle matters from finance to athletics to classrooms to student life to alumni affairs.

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CPL for Incremental & Non-Credit Credentials

Parchment

It was composed of general education and technical faculty, student affairs, individuals, people that you would expect in this sort of initiative like IT, like finance and like the registrar’s office, which is a really critical office to be engaged in this conversation.

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Addressing the Changing Perceptions of Higher Education: The Challenges in Public Perception and Exploring Solutions to Ensure Sustainability

The Change Leader, Inc.

In response to this challenge, institutions have begun offering alternative forms of financing, such as income share agreements and employer partnerships. But student loans remain the primary way to finance a college education. This perpetuates the internal focus of curriculum development and programmatic outcomes.

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2023 Higher Education Year in Review and 2024 Predictions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 187 with Host Deborah Maue and Guest Dr. Drumm McNaughton

The Change Leader, Inc.

Student debt emerged as a pressing concern, with discussions about the affordability of degree programs and the reliance on financial aids like Pell Grants. The conversation highlighted the financial strain on students and the diminishing feasibility of self-financing education without accruing substantial debt. 00:05:48] Deb: Yes.