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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

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SRHE News is now 50 issues old, covering a momentous 12 years for higher education worldwide, but especially in the UK, and even more especially in England – an opportunity to reflect on what we thought and how we felt as it happened, and whether things seem different now. No 12 Hanging by a thread ). by Rob Cuthbert.

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As microcredentials boom, employers' hiring platforms fumble

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Most college students and recent graduates (90 percent) believe that earning an entry-level professional certificate will help them stand out to employers and secure jobs when they graduate, according to a February 2023 Coursera report. Also, most (86 percent) believe that a microcredential will help them secure a job.

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Report: U of Arkansas system may buy University of Phoenix

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In 2017, for example, Purdue University, a public institution in Indiana, produced a “tectonic shift” in American higher education when it acquired Kaplan University, including its roughly 32,000 students, 15 campus locations and 3,000 employees. The acquisition produced the nonprofit Purdue University Global.

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Higher education as a politicians’ playground

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For most of the Coalition period the Universities Minister was David (now Lord) Willetts, who was perhaps the main architect of the Higher Education and Research Act (HERA) 2017, eventually steered into law by Jo (now Lord) Johnson. HERA legislated for the HE ‘market’ and created a new regulator, the Office for Students (OfS).

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Can Connecticut College's embattled president hang on?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

was famously denied entry, Joseph Kennedy, the father of former president John F. Jafar added that faculty have been raising concerns about Bergeron to the Board of Trustees since at least 2017, complaining about her administrative overreach, micromanagement and lack of transparency. When singer Sammy Davis Jr. Adegbile said in a Feb.

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Memo to Universities UK: don’t let this crisis go to waste

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There is an unprecedented opportunity for UUK to reset the terms of engagement between government and universities, by asserting a new and better interpretation of what the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 should mean. As part of its response to the consultation, UUK has also raised issues with using minimum entry requirements.