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• HOUSTON, Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The College of Health Care Professions (CHCP) announced today a unique partnership with Kidstown Dental to prepare aspiring registered dental assistants through on-the-job training.
• Kidstown Dental will offer externships and internships to learners at three Houston CHCP campuses, allowing for the pediatric dental office to become an extension of the classroom setting.
• "This new collaboration with Kidstown Dental embodies our shared commitment to helping aspiring professionals provide unwavering excellence in patient care.
• June 2023 data from the American Dental Association indicates that 89.1% of dentists find recruiting dental assistants extremely or very challenging.

• They can stand by while private businesses collapse and see the resulting loss of jobs and revenue.
• Or they can step in and use public money to prop up these firms.
• The UK boasts the second-largest collection of Nobel laureates and four of the world’s top-20 universities.

Financial woes

• The most recent data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency for the financial year ending in 2022 shows that (excluding pension adjustments, which can skew accounts for particular years) 24% of UK universities reported a deficit.
• The outgoing vice-chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University, Sir Chris Husbands, recently suggested that calls to increase fee levels could be perceived as being tone deaf.
• Of the brand names that collapsed during the 2008 global financial crisis, few will remember the Heritable Bank.
• The government, via the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, paid compensation to Heritable’s customers and, while some of these monies were recouped, the upfront costs were significant and the endgame did not see all of the cost recovered.

Consequences for students

• Despite a potential merger under consideration in Australia, there is little history of mergers between universities in the UK.
• Almost inevitably, a series of messy class action lawsuits would result, with students seeking recompense for fees paid, perhaps over multiple years, that did not result in the qualification advertised.
• Future students might become more interested in the annual financial reports of a prospective university than its traditional prospectus.

Pulling down communities

• This could range from housing, hospitality and retail being starved of income, to these and many other sectors suffering a shortage of a part-time, flexible workers.
• Somewhere between £0.5bn and £1bn is a reasonable estimate of the amount attributable to any one university.
• The university sector is not immune to the kind of industrial or technological revolutions that have swept through other industries.
• Some of our policymakers and regulators might regard a university failure as an indication that the market is working.

• Today, Citizens for Judicial Fairness announced the launch of a Labor Day print advertisement exposing Delaware’s “Jabba the Hutt-like” elites including Chancery Court Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick, former Chancellor and Supreme Court Justice Leo Strine, and longtime Chancery Court insider Kevin Shannon for enriching themselves while leaving working Delawareans behind.
• The advertisement calls out cushy conflicts of interest such as McCormick’s former representation of HIG before taking the bench and doling out judgements in the unsavory company’s favor.
• Citizens for Judicial Fairness released the following statement about the campaign: “Our campaign to expose Chancery insiders is just beginning.
• We can’t continue to allow insiders to control the system solely for their own benefit and enrichment.

• LONDON, Aug. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OhioLINK, Ohio's academic library consortium, announces the selection of Ex Libris Alma, part of Clarivate™ (NYSE: CLVT), as the consortium's next shared library services platform.
• The new cloud-based platform will enhance library user experiences and services, improve efficiencies for day-to-day operations, and streamline collaboration and consortial functionality.
• In addition to Alma, OhioLINK will implement Primo VE and a suite of related products, including Leganto, Rapido, and Library Mobile, that will enhance services for users, library staff, and administration.
• OhioLINK's Executive Director Amy Pawlowski led the creation of the consortium's selection and planning process and negotiated the contract for the new library services platform.