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Ann Stewart; Nidhi S. Sabharwal; Renu Yadav – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
This article is concerned with an institutional initiative designed to encourage the development of an outreach culture which can support fairer, more equal, access to higher education (HE) in India. The initiative constituted the final impact phase of a 5-year Fair Chance Foundation (FCF) research project (2017-2022) which explored gendered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indians, Access to Education, Higher Education
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Patrick, Hosea O.; Abiolu, Rhoda T. I.; Abiolu, Oluremi A. – Transformation in Higher Education, 2021
Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic brought unprecedented changes leading to 'business unusual' in all facets of life and livelihood on a global scale. The restrictions on gathering, social distancing and lockdown measures necessitated by the need to curtail its spread, had, and still have an enormous impact on the educational…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Delivery Systems, Electronic Learning
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Kinser, Kevin – New Directions for Higher Education, 2014
Quality assurance is a key component of higher education systems around the world, and questions about its purpose and functions should be understood in both global and local contexts.
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Global Approach, Local Issues
Nielsen, Natalie; McCarthy, Kirstin – Business-Higher Education Forum (NJ1), 2009
Business-Higher Education Forum's study of the Seamless Education Partnership began with a theory of action for cross-sector efforts to increase alignment from Pre-K through graduate school (P-20) and improve educational outcomes. BHEF's theory of action posits that community leaders coalesce around a shared vision that is shaped by local context…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Alignment (Education)
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Quinn, Jocey – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2004
The "drop-out" of working-class students from universities has been identified as one of the most pressing issues for the higher education (HE) sector in the United Kingdom. This article draws on the initial findings of a major research project that explores the meanings and implications of such withdrawal from HE amongst young…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Working Class, Foreign Countries, Dropout Characteristics