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What Tyler Cowen Gets Wrong About What’s Wrong with Higher Education

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation In a recent Bloomberg column, Tyler Cowen offers his diagnosis of what ails higher education. ” What does Cowen worry about when he worries about higher ed? Nothing about the shift of higher education from a public to a private good? Nothing about public disinvestment?

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Hard Truths That Higher Education Has Evaded for Too Long

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma There are harsh truths—lies and secrets, guilt and shame—that we generally don’t want to admit. That inequities pervade American higher education, including gates that restrict entry into high-demand, high-salary majors in computer science, economics, finance, engineering and nursing.

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Key Facts and Figures about the Graduate Technical workforce

HEPI

HEPI is running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. per cent of all employed graduates who lived in the UK before enrolling in higher education held technical jobs. . The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022. per cent).

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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you happen to see Malcolm Gladwell’s article “ Princeton University Is the World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine ”? The resounding demands for equity within higher education heard far and wide during the summer of 2020 have, I fear, faded.

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Announcing 8 degrees, 3 Professional Certificates, and a growing catalog of generative AI content to help learners build skills of the future 

Coursera blog

In addition to core courses in finance, marketing, and digital transformation, students can also choose from a variety of electives in AI, data science, cybersecurity, and more. Graduates will be prepared for data science careers in business or industry. “As The first cohorts are expected to begin in August 2023. ” – Geoffrey S.

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

From a childhood of pumping gas and bookkeeping for the family business to a career in software engineering, he developed a strong entrepreneurial spirit. We asked him how the college-to-careers pillar might have drawn on the unique vantage point of his software engineering background. Very similar to software engineering.

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In the Blink of an AI: Shifting Assessments in a ChatGPT World

Today's Learner

Scientific problem solving: In science or engineering courses, students can present a complex problem to ChatGPT and work collaboratively to explore potential solutions. Coding challenge and debugging: For computer science students, they can work on coding challenges with ChatGPT acting as a virtual coding partner.