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International Universities issue warning over low applications from disadvantaged students | Universities don’t get enough qualified applicants from Scotland’s poorest communities to meet tough access targets, according to a new report. Student Loans in Brazil: Investment or Expenditure? | Brazil is on the cusp of the big social changes. TheContinue Reading

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International To grow, universities need radical changes | After two decades of politically-driven and uncoordinated expansion, Kenya’s higher education has hit a brick-wall, which is why we welcome suggestions by the Commission for University Education for a rethink of this sector with a view of carrying out radical changes toContinue Reading

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International Analytics is a priority among higher education leaders | Among the surveyed individuals were provosts, presidents, CFOs and CIOs. Sixty-one percent of them said that they have an analytics program at their college or university, and a half agree that their institution is investing the appropriate amount in analytics.Continue Reading

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International ‘Access to third level isn’t on merit. It’s a lottery based on which family you were born into’ | [T]he boards of Irish universities have taken this crisis as an opportunity to forge ahead with their ideological preference of a higher level system based on a ‘business model’ –Continue Reading

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International What could a new premier mean for higher education? | Dr Abiy Ahmed was elected chair of the ruling party, Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front or EPRDF, a few days before he was sworn in as prime minister. In his close to 40 minute inaugural speech, Abiy outlined theContinue Reading