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Costs and Benefits of Adding 30-units to Accounting Students' Requirements for Licensure as a CPA

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

One of the most talked about issues in accounting right now is whether the 150-hour requirement to qualify for licensing as a CPA creates a barrier to entry for many accounting students that should be revisited. Entry-level CPAs are performing more procedures that require deeper critical thinking, problem-solving and professional judgment.

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Exploring British Muslim transitions to PGT studies

SRHE

It indicates a drop off in British Muslim participation between the undergraduate and postgraduate taught level (from 12% to 8%)( OfS, 2021-22 ). The charity has awarded over 560 scholarships since its inception in 2016, and commenced surveying its candidates in 2019/20, subsequently undertaking this exercise on an annual basis.

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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Specifically, in comparison to 2019, the previous assessment year, average mathematics scores for grade 4 students were lower in 2022 for American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black, Hispanic, students of Two or More Races, and white students (see [link] ). My personal experiences continue to inform me professionally.

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Why not HE? The reasons those from under-represented backgrounds decide against university

SRHE

All participants were in the final year of their level 3 programmes and on courses that would qualify them for university entry, if they chose this option. Glass, GV and Worthen, BR (1972) ‘Educational evaluation and research: similarities and differences’, Curriculum Theory Network , 8/9: 149-165. Online] Available at: [link].

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How to engage more community college prospects amid the “great opt-out”

EAB

Since 2020, more than 8 million high school graduates, aged 18-24, have opted out of coming to college. -->. of students saying they relied heavily on a resource, 2019-2022. Identify prospect entry points. Source: EAB analysis of American Community Survey data. Trends in from-home sources. %

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

By January 2019 we had resorted to more football analogies (No 35 Academia: the beautiful game? ): … m ore research is needed. The HEFCE-commissioned evaluation tells us only that it was not very ‘useful’ in the terms defined by the current policy framework. The price of academic freedom is eternal academic vigilance. (No And more teaching.