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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

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. by Rob Cuthbert.

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‘Left without a voice’: October general election could leave students in UK unable to vote

The Guardian Higher Education

Universities fear an autumn election will not leave undergraduates enough time to register Hundreds of thousands of students could be left unable to vote if the government calls an October general election, because there may not be enough time to register them, universities and student unions have warned.

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Tory levelling up has been a scam. Here are three things Labour can do to make it actually mean something | John Harris

The Guardian Higher Education

If a new government is going to create a new kind of country, this is where a lot of its focus should fall. The UK – and England in particular – remains absurdly centralised and riven by a yawning economic gap between London and the south-east, and just about everywhere else.

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President moves: Resignations and early retirements reigned in July

University Business

Faculty expressed deep disappointment in the lack of transparency over the negotiation process—which saw McElroy’s offer dwindle from a tenured role to a one-year, at-will position—and the involvement of outside political pressures on the contract fiasco. Bank’s tenure lasted two years. “We Stepping Down Jason Adsit – Mt.

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President moves: hearty welcomes and rocky goodbyes

University Business

In his time at Coastal Carolina, enrollment grew and their first-year retention rate bumped up 6%, totaling 73%, according to AP News. The Benedictine president-elect holds a Ph.D. in American Government and Comparative Politics from Notre Dame, Indiana. Presidents stepping down Frederick G. Slabach Frederick G.

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Jamie Driscoll to stand as independent candidate for north-east mayor after quitting Labour and raising £30,000 – UK politics live

The Guardian Higher Education

Wallace has] been in politics and public service for a very long time, and, as he said, he wants to be able to spend more time with his family, and as a dad myself I completely understand and sympathise with that. He stressed that it would be for the Office for Students, not the government, to decide what might count as ‘rip off courses”.

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Sadiq Khan pledges new Erasmus-style overseas study scheme for London youngsters

The Guardian Higher Education

City’s mayor outlines ‘internationalist’ vision in manifesto as he bids for third term in May London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan is to offer young people studying in the capital a new version of the EU’s Erasmus scheme of student exchanges as part of his bid for a third term.