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SE Asian STEM scholars awarded BC scholarships

The PIE News

Seven scholars from South East Asia have been chosen as recipients of the British Council’s scholarships for women in STEM for 2022/23, as the organisation continues efforts to enhance South East Asia-UK relations. Stellmacher said that such scholarships contribute to the overall perception and student consciousness of UK study.

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Navigating the AI revolution in higher education: a call to action

HEPI

Professor Guo spent 34 years at Imperial College London studying AI, data mining, machine learning, and large-scale data management before becoming Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2022. In academia we still place a great deal of emphasis in scholarship on the capacity to recall and recite.

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International student athletes in the US – a Global North affair?

The PIE News

Plenty of scholarships are indeed available, even down to activities like chess, esports and the non-contact version of American football, flag football. Those team sports generally provide more scholarship places to begin with but the competition is fierce. It’s not a cheap thing to do.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6%

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Does research provide insights to many of the global challenges we’re facing? A publisher’s view

HEPI

In June 2022, HEPI and Taylor & Francis hosted a successful dinner discussion around open access and evidence-based based policymaking which produced a co-authored Policy Note , and webinar. The UN’s Higher Education Sustainability Initiative sees a clear link between research and scholarship and building a workforce for the future.

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Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Dies at 67

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Whether in government or academia, she devoted her career to reducing inequality and increasing opportunities for others, and made everyone around her better." Former University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) Chancellor Dr. Rebecca Blank died Feb. 17 from pancreatic cancer at age 67. Department of Commerce. "Dr. UWM recently named the Rebecca M.

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The Promise and Challenges of AI in Higher Ed

WCET Frontiers

A year ago, in August 2022, several UM faculty within the Department of Writing and Rhetoric began piloting AI-powered assistants in first-year writing courses. Faculty at dozens of other institutions have been granted access to the course through course licenses and scholarships.