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A ‘free mover’ refers to a student who chooses to study abroad outside of an official university partnership or bilateral exchange program such as Erasmus, Fulbright or Nordplus, which can be highly competitive and inaccessible due to high costs, said providers. “We wanted to make ‘free mover’ mobility – which used to be the…
On April 4, the general salary threshold for the Skilled Worker Visa rose to £38,700, while on April 11, the family visa sponsorship threshold will rise to at least £29,000 a year – the first of three hikes in the figure planned for the next year, announced by home secretary James Cleverly in December 2023….
In my (re)reading of Parker Palmer’s The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life (1997) and its iterations, it becomes more obvious to me that Parker is a paradox savant. “What makes a Rosa Parks?…What makes a Nelson Mandela? What makes these people is their capacity to take the inner life…
Dear Fellow Educators, As we near the end of another semester, I sense a rise in activity and busyness across campus. The stress is starting to seep in with many approaching deadlines looming. Many of us are intimately familiar with marathon grading sessions, hurried lesson planning, and feelings of exhaustion. Prioritizing stress management and self-care…
As international recruiters, I think we’re all still recovering from a bit of a shock to the system when recruitment conditions took a turn for the worse this January intake following the boom in demand for the UK which we had experienced since 2019/20. When there’s so much that is out of our hands –…
What constitutes protected free speech and antisemitism on college campuses were key topics discussed Thursday during a webinar hosted by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA).Dr. Lawrence Summers The event, “Antisemitism, Academic Freedom, and Board Leadership,” brought multiple scholars and higher ed leaders together to offer their thoughts on the current state of…
What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? That might depend on what type of reader you are or your line of work. When the first edition of what was then called Black Issues In Higher Education was published on March 15, 1984, it was two days before my 14th birthday, and I…
Karen NiemiKaren Niemi has been appointed executive director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. She served as a distinguished CEO and president for SEL and education publishing enterprises. Niemi holds a bachelor’s degree in speech/language pathology from Augustana University in Illinois and a master’s in speech/language pathology from Rush University in Chicago. #KAREN #NIEMI…
Figure1While 17.4% of respondents plan to decrease hires, nearly 83% of employers anticipate increasing (24.9%) or maintaining (57.7%) hiring for the college Class of 2024, according to research conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Planned cuts mean overall hiring projections are down 5.8% from last year, NACE’s Job Outlook 2024 Spring…
What Types of Technologies Are Covered by STOP Grants? The STOP School Violence Act of 2018 made grant awards available for a variety of public institutions, including local and state governments, and split the available funds into two buckets: the School Violence Prevention Program and STOP. SVPP grants cover a wider range of school…