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International Decode Data Science Speak With This Glossary for Higher Ed | Colleges and universities are awash in data and under increased pressure to quantify and improve student outcomes. As a result, higher-education practitioners and policymakers have, in turn, welcomed the application of data science in higher education. International Educators:Continue Reading

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International The ‘bona fide’ crisis in US universities that’s coming to the UK | With American staff living in poverty and students in ‘outlandish’ debt, ‘Dr Karen’ is touring UK campuses with a simple message: it could happen to you. Government should not cut funding for improving teaching | AnyContinue Reading

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International Grading Vietnam’s higher education reforms | Higher education reform has been recognised as a national priority since Vietnam’s successful reform or ‘Doi Moi’ policy in the late 1980s. Vulnerable Brits are facing a personal debt crisis | Back in 2010, reeling from a global financial crisis, Britain entered intoContinue Reading

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International Expert: Student Data Underutilized in Promoting Success | Colleges and universities must make better use of the vast amount of student data that is available in order to bring about more timely graduations for all students, a data mining expert exhorted his colleagues Monday at an annual gathering ofContinue Reading

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International Higher education loan fiasco sets $185bn time bomb | The Turnbull government ­admitted the risk from “ballooning” costs in higher education as polit­icians blamed each other for policies that will deepen the deficit while lumbering young Australians with bigger personal loans. Simon Birmingham promises more details of higher educationContinue Reading