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Credentials Awarded Drop for Second Year in a Row

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

More students earned certificates than any year in the past decade, while associate degrees awarded fell to its lowest point in a decade and bachelor's degrees awarded fell to its lowest since 2015–16 academic year. These drops “erase the gains made between 2015 and 2020,” said Dr. Pietro A. The decreases, he added, make him nervous.

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Lecturers urged to review assessments in UK amid concerns over new AI tool

The Guardian - Higher Education

ChatGPT is capable of producing high-quality essays with minimal human input ChatGPT: what can the extraordinary artificial intelligence chatbot do? Continue reading.

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Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

Inside Higher Ed

Given that the natural language model earned passing scores on the evidence and torts portion of the bar exam, among other feats, some in academe fret that the technology may facilitate widespread cheating. in 2015,” ChatGPT replied in a sample presented on the OpenAI website. Question How Writing Is Taught.

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Inspiring Your Students to Write, Cite, and Avoid Plagiarism

Faculty Focus

Research offered by Monceaux (2015) also supports a simpler strategy by: 1) engaging students in active research, 2) scaffolding the student’s accurate review of articles for pertinent source material, and 3) integrating that material into the student’s work to hone research and analysis skills, bolster writer confidence, and avoid plagiarism.

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TOEIC victims pitch Post Office-inspired TV Drama

The PIE News

Director of Migrant Voice, Nazek Ramadan, expressed her frustration about how difficult it has been to make politicians and members of the public understand the catastrophic human impact of the crisis. “For One of them is Dilshad Abdul, 44, who came from Sri Lanka to study IT at the British Institute of Technology and Commerce in 2008. “I

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Warning issued to Taiwan’s ministries over int’l student exploitation

The PIE News

A 2022 investigation by a national newspaper uncovered that Ugandan students at Chungchou University of Science and Technology were being forced to work long hours in factories as “interns”. The Control Yuan found that the ministry of foreign affairs had rejected 379 student visa applications since 2015 due to suspicions of human trafficking.

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Concerns over US visa rejections for African students

The PIE News

While appreciating that US visa issuances globally are still far below their peak in 2015, and that denial rates have risen from a low of 15% in 2014 to 36% in 2023 , they feel that the rejections disproportionately affected Africans. It is for this reason that we advocate that every student needs to be extremely well-informed.