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Book Review – The New Leadership Agenda: Pandemic Perspectives from Global Universities by Martin Betts

HEPI

The book is divided across five major themes, and across these themes almost every aspect of the university function within society, obligations to staff and students, how history has shaped the sector today, and what things might look like into the future is covered. No aspect of this book will foster sympathy for university leaders.

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To be part of the Pacific family, Australia must develop its educational engagement

The PIE News

In the early 1950s the Australian government offered some scholarships to Pacific territories (this is before they were independent states). This was not the only example I came across in researching Mandates and Missteps : Australian Government Scholarships to the Pacific – 1948 to 2018.

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Tributes paid to Chinese student killed in Sydney stabbing

The PIE News

It has sent up an online Bondi Junction condolence book for people to share messages and is providing support services for those affected.

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Who You Gonna Believe?

Inside Higher Ed

” The 2016 presidential campaign touched off an explosion of books and articles on disinformation, as well as widespread calls to combat misinformation and the supposedly growing contempt for verified facts in today’s posttruth moment. Books can be cooked. On many issues, our identity determines our personal truth.

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UK universities withdraw offers after Pearson cheating concerns

The PIE News

It’s not that easy to book a last-minute test,” she added, explaining that IELTS slots in mainland China are mostly booked up for the summer. Fang said she would also divert some of her students to Australian institutions for the spring intake.

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Endangered Indigenous Languages: Universities Advance Revitalization Efforts

Insight Into Diversity

By the end of the century, 1,500 languages could cease to exist, according to a 2021 study by a group of Australian researchers, “Global Predictors of Language Endangerment and the Future of Linguistic Diversity,” published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.

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It’s Time to Embrace the Emotional or Affective Turn

Inside Higher Ed

Two recent books that have received widespread attention underscore a much broader emotional or affective turn in humanistic and social science scholarship. Much of the book looks at how readers can better gauge their emotional makeup, helping them achieve a higher level of self-understanding.

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