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Postsecondary Finance and Student Success posting

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The Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education is inviting applications for a tenure stream position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialization in Postsecondary Finance and Student Success to teach in the Higher Education program. The appointment will commence on July 1, 2020 or shortly thereafter.

New Book Resisting Neoliberalism in Education Local, National and Transnational Perspectives Edited by Lyn Tett and Mary Hamilton

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Neoliberalism has been widely criticised because of its role in prioritising ‘free markets’ as the optimum way of solving problems and organising society. In the field of education, this leads to an emphasis on the knowledge economy that can reduce both persons and education to economic actors and be detrimental to wider social and ethical goals.

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Early bird fee eucen’s Autumn Seminar 2019 | Learning for Entrepreneurship: A Global Citizen perspective

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This year's seminar will focus on entrepreneurial thinking in lifelong learning that expands our perceptions of entrepreneurship for a more inclusive and sustainable future. University Lifelong Learning and Adult Education can play an important role in reaching the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

The great university con

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An interesting piece in the New Statesman on the ongoing degree inflation (with First Class degree awards being 7% in 1994 and 29% in 2019) and how it might have much wider implications and repercussions for the UK economy in comparison with its competitors. The author asks why such improvement has not been reflected in soaring productivity – instead of the UK having one of the lowest levels of productivity amongst its economic competitors.

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