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Some of you might have heard the discussion on RNZ Sunday Morning about university degrees and post-tertiary employment. This report is the basis of the discussion and it has some clear crossovers into the NZ tertiary education and post-tertiary employment context. If we say more and more people require tertiary education for employment, but we don't increase the number of tertiary-level education jobs then we have a broken system. Who gets left behind and why? https://lnkd.in/gm5mq9ry

A recent article from The Guardian revealed a troubling trend: More than half of UK students are working long hours in paid jobs. 👀 This reality brings to light the immense pressure students face as they balance academics with the need to earn money. 💷 It's a eye-opening reminder of the challenges young people encounter in today's economy and the urgent need for practical financial education and skills training. 🧠 This as a call to action to everyone in the education industry! 🤝 At Earniversity, we're committed to addressing these challenges by empowering students with the skills they need to navigate the complexities of the modern workforce and secure their financial futures. 🚀 #FinancialLiteracy #Education #StudentSuccess #ModernSkills #Earniversity #TheGuardian

Our students deserve better. We deserve better. Period. *Updated with petition link* In any other company where a department is only ~30-35 people deep and 18 employees resign (or do not get contracts extended with little to no notice) in the first 26 months of a new leader being hired, leadership would be examined and something would be done. If nothing is being done, why? If other management is not confronting that issue, why? If the only people staying are from the people hired on by new management, why? If there is a ratio of about 1 CAPS Counselor to about 2,471 students and it is deemed as “enough” but the team is telling management otherwise, why is nothing being done? Why are positions still left vacant? CSULB Student Affairs has a problem, and I can tell you it isn’t because our staff doesn’t care about students. It’s because leadership uses student wellness as a pawn for us to do more work, other people who have been hired through cronyism work, or a combination of both. Mildred García, Ed.D. Jane Conoley Beth Lesen Link to post: https://lnkd.in/ggTpbADA Link to petition: https://lnkd.in/gF3Y9swb #CSULB_DoBetter #mentalhealth #csulb #caps #SickOfHigherEdSellouts

More bad news for the U.S. Department of Education's arbitrary “Gainful Employment” Rule, and how it tries to punish nontraditional schools for giving more training than the bare minimum. We don’t know, but we sort of like the idea of our health care providers being the equivalent of doctors who got their MD in high school, don’t you? I mean, that sort of sounds like a good “bare minimum” standard. #HigherEdPolicy #HigherEducation

Reflecting on the Guardian article below highlighting the immense challenges students face due to the rising cost of living, it’s clear that the situation is tough. Many students are balancing demanding study schedules with extensive work hours just to cover basic expenses. The struggle to make ends meet often takes a toll on their mental and physical health, impacting academic performance and overall well-being. Initiatives like Santander UK funding are crucial in alleviating some of these pressures, offering students a chance to focus on their education without the constant financial strain. Supporting our students is not just an investment in their future, but in the future of our society. Let’s continue to advocate for and support measures that ease their burden. https://lnkd.in/esAFTSyC

🚨 Publication Day! 🚨 Thrilled to share a new paper with Dr. Hiba Hussein and Dr. Moustafa Haj Youssef: "Dabbled vs Sustained Self-Employment: Exploring Educational Returns within Dynamic Employment Groups" There's a wealth of research on how education translates into higher earnings, but we wanted to take it a step further—looking at how this relationship varies across groups with different experiences of self-employment. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society (1991–2022), we examined educational returns across three distinct employment groups identified by Hiba and Moustafa in earlier work: 🔹 Always employees – those consistently in paid employment. 🔹 Dabblers in self-employment – individuals alternating between self-employment and formal jobs. 🔹 Sustained self-employed – individuals with a long-term commitment to self-employment. What did we find? 📊 🔹 For traditional employees, education generally leads to higher earnings, though returns may diminish at higher levels. 🔹 Sustained self-employed individuals see the highest educational returns, especially those with postgraduate qualifications. 🔹 Dabblers with advanced qualifications also perform well, but those who leave education early often face challenges. There’s plenty more to explore in the full paper, available here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/dsH4YzwS Huge thanks to my co-authors Hiba and Moustafa, as well as Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool Business School, for their support! 🙌 Would love to hear your thoughts or answer any questions. 💬 #SelfEmployment #Education #HumanCapital #Research #Economics #ReturnsToEducation

A letter to the Secretary of State for Education on their first day in the new job. Dear Minister, just before you launch yourself into the cut (hopefully no pun I intended) and thrust in your new role - can I ask you to pause and reflect for a moment BEFORE you plough ahead and carrying on with the decades of wasted opportunities you are about to inherit in your department. We hope you might have enough creative imagination to recognise that if you keep doing what’s always been done - you’ll keep getting the same (poor) results. In case you may not have noticed it, the world is changing rapidly and profoundly. We hope you recognise that simply carrying on with the current policy (or should I say dogma) of industrialised examinations and an over-obsession in Science and Maths is not adequately preparing people for the road ahead. And in particular, large numbers of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are being bypassed. We need an Education Secretary that understands that we need a pluralistic education system that reflects the diverse learning needs of a changing society and economy - not a one size (barely) fits all approach. We understand that might require some bold and brave thinking to introduce new ideas and approaches into the mix. But fear not, this country is blessed with these attributes in bucket loads. We have an abundance of innovation, invention and outside-the-box imagination as a nation which can easily be deployed to help us see beyond the limitations of the straight-jacketed education strategies administered by several of your predecessors. We need someone who can see that teaching our young people to be ready to engage with the world is not like running a factory. We believe politicians like you take office in order to make a difference and deliver change. Well, here’s your opportunity to make a name for yourself and make history. If this all seems a little daunting and overwhelming - don’t worry. I am always at the end of the phone and happy to advise you. Deep breath. We can do this. Yours sincerely, Jeff Clark (business owner, entrepreneur, ADHD, dyslexic)

I was asked today if I would give a #PhDStudent feedback on the #Accessibility of their lectures. This is the absolute dream! I would love to do this! Sadly it's outside of my remit as a #StudentSupportProvider. So any advice I'd give as someone who works in my role would be unpaid by Ulster University and Education Authority (Northern Ireland). It's unlikely that I could submit an invoice and be paid as a #DisabilityConsultant. This is how fucked the system is. You have workers who want to help improve things, but we can't promote our private work. There are university staff who want to learn but will have to jump through hoops to make it happen and students ultimately disadvantaged because of that. I recognise that for every class of say 20, where I'm paid to support one student, there's probably at least 3 more that don't have the same level of support. I'm #MoreThanASupportWorker but I'm #LessThanStaff. I have skills, knowledge and expertise that would improve the #LearningAndTeaching experience for all. Yet I earn less than £10k per year. To boot, I do my tax return, keep my books, have no pension, sick pay or what I call a "luxury of employment". I'm a casualised worker pure and simple, something Ulster University committed to stamping out. By raising this publicly, I recognise that I'm at extreme risk of not being invited back to my role, but if that happens, the university will lose a vital asset who champions their students and works to be the most person-centred possible, often working well beyond the remit because it's the ethical thing to do. Paul Bartholomew I urge you to make Student Support Providers permanent staff. We can help make the whole experience more inclusive.

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