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‘To diary or not to diary’? – lessons learned from the SRHE workshop ‘Using Diary Method in Social Research’

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by Panagiota (Peny) Sotiropoulou At the beginning of February 2024, I attended the in-person workshop on Using Diary Method in Social Research , organised by the SRHE and facilitated by Dr Emily Henderson, Dr Zoe Baker and Dr Ahmad Akkad.

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College Sports: A Work in Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He says he also looks forward to collaborating with faculty on campus to pursue and publish research on issues related to student-athletes of color. In 2016, the NCAA created the Presidential Pledge, stating a commitment to promoting and achieving ethnic, racial, and gender equity in intercollegiate athletics. Four years later, 82.8%

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The ongoing saga of REF 2028: why doesn’t teaching count for impact?

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The initial decisions on REF 2028 (REF 2028/23/01 from Research England et al ), based on the report on FRAP – the Future Research Assessment Programme – contain one surprise and one non-surprise among nearly 40 decisions. by Ian McNay Surprise, surprise…or not.

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Exploring British Muslim transitions to PGT studies

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Transitions: British Muslims between UG and PGT studies will be of benefit to HE practitioners, researchers and forward thinking institutions willing to engage in an analysis of the granular experiences of discrete, minoritised communities. Amira Samatar, MA Ed.,

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Upward transfers still declining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Transfers between community colleges and four-year institutions continued to drop last fall, an ongoing trend since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Among transfer students who started at a community college in 2016, 69.2

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Mr Sherwood v The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation[1]

SRHE

Eventually this led to two careful and scholarly reports: Marking Consistency Metrics in 2016 and Marking Consistency Metrics – An Update in 2018. Dennis Sherwood , an independent analyst and consultant, interpreted Ofqual’s measurements of grade reliability as a consequence of what he termed ‘fuzziness’.

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

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The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 aimed to enshrine the market with students as customers, and established the Office for Students. Two Research Excellence Framework exercises continued the remorseless evidence-defying concentration of research funding. This is not paradox but consistency.