Wonkhe
APRIL 10, 2024
The government is proposing to abolish a central funding allowance that allows disabled students to access specialist nonmedical support. Jim Dickinson explains the justification The post Now DfE proposes to scrap a huge part of Disabled Students Allowance appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
APRIL 30, 2024
In approving the changes, the Iowa nonprofit’s board of trustees pivoted away from more significant cuts recommended earlier this year.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
MAY 6, 2024
Calling the police doesn’t dampen protests. It accelerates them, often with devastating consequences. By Thomas J. Sugrue Etienne Laurent, AFP, Getty Images Calling the police doesn’t dampen protests. It accelerates them, often with devastating consequences.
Inside Higher Ed
MAY 7, 2024
Universities Consider Divestment Demands Josh Moody Tue, 05/07/2024 - 03:00 AM As pro-Palestinian protests continue across the U.S., some colleges have struck deals with students to consider divestment in exchange for packing up encampments.
HEPI
MAY 8, 2024
We have – finally – today achieved something I have long wanted HEPI to do: we have taken a blank sheet of paper and worked out how much money students need to live on. By ‘need to live’ we don’t mean just avoiding poverty; nor do we mean living in plush comfort. We mean having around enough income to be safe, warm and decently fed, to be able to buy necessary course-related items and to be able to get involved with the non-academic side of university life, perhaps by joining a society or two.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 22, 2024
Activism is hardly optional in today’s world. I feel the calling in my bones. My family is deeply Jewish, with both Sephardic and Ashkenazic roots, and taught me the core lessons of tikkun olam (repair the world), tzedakah (create justice), g’milut chasadim (engage in loving kindness), pikuach nefesh (life matters), and ometz lev (courage). These values anchored my identity even as the academy challenged it, trying to make me quieter, smaller, and less effective.
Academe Blog
APRIL 19, 2024
BY HANK REICHMAN As a Columbia alum (College ’69), participant in that university’s 1968 student rebellion, advocate for academic freedom and free expression rights, and as a Jew, I have followed developments at Columbia over the past few days with great interest.
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The Guardian - Higher Education
MARCH 28, 2024
Fundamental restructuring must happen, along with an honest debate about what – and who – higher education is really for Imagine a beach before the tsunami. Out at sea, the wave is gathering force, yet on the sand people are still sunbathing, blissfully unaware. That’s how it feels, one professor tells me, to be working in higher education. Academics by their nature don’t look outwards much, he argues, so not all have registered the risk to their profession.
University Business
MARCH 25, 2024
Despite questions around the value of an English degree, graduates who earned one were found to possess similar rates of life satisfaction, peak salary earnings and unemployment rates to non-English degree graduates, according to a recent report by the Association of Departments of English (ADE), a subsidiary of the Modern Language Association. The Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on quantitative data from multiple U.S. government resources and contributions
Campus Technology
MAY 8, 2024
Since its launch in April 2023, Turnitin's AI writing detection tool has reviewed over 200 million papers, with data showing that more than half of students continue to use AI to write their papers.
Wonkhe
MARCH 26, 2024
It it is time for universities to stop the nonsense of participating in flawed research rankings exercises, argue Paul Ashwin and Derek Heim The post Rank hypocrisy – how universities betray their promises on responsible research assessment appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 19, 2024
The Education Department set a March deadline for the rules but hasn’t yet cleared a key procedural hurdle, potentially pushing their release back by months.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
MAY 1, 2024
By Erin Gretzinger Nate Swanson, Reuters, Redux Signs displayed at Northwestern University Some observers called the agreements, in which students scaled back or ended encampments in return for concessions, the best route forward, while others described them as a "betrayal.
Inside Higher Ed
MAY 7, 2024
A $237M Donation Draws Skepticism kathryn.palmer… Tue, 05/07/2024 - 03:00 AM Florida A&M celebrated a massive gift from a little-known donor announced at its commencement. But the lack of information about Gregory Gerami and his company has seeded doubts.
HEPI
JANUARY 13, 2024
HEPI Director Nick Hillman takes a look at PwC’s new assessment of the financial health of the UK’s higher education institutions. On Christmas Day, my family gave me a lovely new fountain pen (made out of plectrums by this master craftsman since you ask). There was one other thing at the top of my Christmas wish list too, although – unlike the pen – it has only just arrived.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 15, 2024
College students who graduate as English majors actually find jobs at about the same rate as those who major in other subjects, according to a recent report commissioned by the Modern Language Association (MLA). Dr. Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators.
Academe Blog
MARCH 25, 2024
BY LAUREN GUTTERMAN AND LISA L. MOORE On February 22nd, 2024, Dr. Paige Schilt, a social worker, author, and former lecturer and staff member at the University of Texas at Austin, was scheduled to give a talk entitled “A Queer Path to Leadership: Finding a Mentor to Help You Succeed in Higher Education.
The PIE News
MAY 1, 2024
The numbers of individuals intending to enter the UK using a study visa has dropped to record lows since the pandemic, new data for the beginning of 2024 shows. Statistics from the government show that applications for main applicants hoping to study in the UK have fallen to 34,000 in the first three months of 2024. Two years ago in 2022, some 46,900 applied for main applicant visas.
FIRE
APRIL 25, 2024
More than 50 arrested after state police storm protestors at University of Texas at Austin.
The Academic Designer
MARCH 26, 2024
Carlotta Berry, PhD a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics and owner of NoireSTEMinist, is dedicated to diversifying STEM through her Black STEM romance novels and extensive online presence. She creates her own GIFs, uses AI art to create visual representations for black and brown girls playing with robots, has websites, and is on social media.
Campus Technology
APRIL 2, 2024
OpenStax, the Rice University-based provider of free, peer-reviewed, openly licensed course materials, has expanded its content library with a new computer science textbook: Introduction to Python Programming.
Wonkhe
MARCH 27, 2024
Caron Gentry issues a plea for more widespread valuing of arts, humanities and social science education even - or especially - in times of financial pressure The post False economies – why cutting SHAPE courses is bad for HE and bad for the country appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
JANUARY 5, 2024
But those who initially attended a historically Black college also had higher debt loads than their similarly situated peers, a working paper found.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
MAY 8, 2024
An interview with Irene Mulvey, president of the AAUP. By Sammy Feldblum An interview with Irene Mulvey, president of the AAUP, about recent campus crackdowns on protesters.
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 26, 2024
Police Ratchet Up Use of Force on Campus Protesters Katherine Knott Fri, 04/26/2024 - 03:00 AM As colleges turn to police to suppress pro-Palestinian demonstrators, some are calling for the National Guard. Experts say history should be a warning.
The Guardian - Higher Education
APRIL 11, 2024
Arts education is essential – yet on both sides of the Atlantic, the humanities and critical thinking are under attack. With massive redundancies announced at this London institution, is it the canary in the coalmine? It is a couple of days before Easter, and the students who have been holding a sit-in in the Professor Stuart Hall building in Goldsmiths, University of London are packing up.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 24, 2024
The introduction and rollout of the new Better FASFA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) form has led to a multitude of challenges, setbacks, and concerns among students, caregivers, and educators. What began as a well-intentioned effort to simplify what has historically been a cumbersome process to apply for federal student aid has been made even more complex, resulting in delays in enrollment decisions for many students, particularly students of color who disproportionately rely upon st
Academe Blog
APRIL 15, 2024
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN On Wednesday, April 17 when faculty members nationwide will be observing a National Day of Action for Higher Education, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik is scheduled to testify before the House Education and Workforce Committee.
HEPI
APRIL 1, 2024
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Tim Blackman, Vice Chancellor of the Open University. Tony Blair’s commitment that his Labour government would achieve 50 per cent participation in higher education was made in 1999, although the participation rate did not start rising substantially until the coalition government of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats ended England’s student number controls in 2013.
FIRE
APRIL 10, 2024
IU’s postponement of an event featuring Hamas critic Mosab Hassan Yousef is the latest in a long line of recent free speech issues at the university.
Wonkhe
APRIL 23, 2024
Adding requirements for open access books and chapters to REF will massively increase costs - and there is no additional funding to cover these. Dawn Hibbert asks for a rethink The post Not everyone can afford open access monographs appeared first on Wonkhe.
Wonkhe
APRIL 18, 2024
There's a lot of focus on smoothing the transition into university - but what about how students make it through their experience? David Woolley and Jon Down describe the journey The post Students transition through, not just into, university appeared first on Wonkhe.
Wonkhe
APRIL 9, 2024
Hannah Cobb, and members of the national learning and teaching focused network, reflect on what universities can do to enhance the careers of education-focused staff The post Celebrating diversity and supporting progression in education-focused HE careers appeared first on Wonkhe.
Wonkhe
APRIL 8, 2024
Tony Moss demonstrates how attention to student outcome gaps across the whole student lifecycle sheds new light on the awarding gap The post It’s time to tackle all the gaps that surface in our student lifecycle data, not just the awarding gap appeared first on Wonkhe.
Wonkhe
APRIL 29, 2024
Assessment is learning, and students value it. Katy Burgess explains the psychology of testing The post Why we should test our students more appeared first on Wonkhe.
Wonkhe
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
Jonathan Grant traces the history of universities' role in securing social justice, arguing that neutrality on such issues undermines the sector's reputation The post Universities should never be neutral on the social issues of the day appeared first on Wonkhe.
Wonkhe
MARCH 5, 2024
Michelle Donelan pays costs and UKRI reconvenes EDI advisory group following minister's missive The post Michelle Donelan pays damages following freedom of speech fallout appeared first on Wonkhe.
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