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The Key to Generating More Equitable Results in Higher Education? Uniting the Faculty and Edtech Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over the last year, many consequential changes have been thrown at higher education – new legislation impacted DEI, artificial intelligence entered the classroom in a big way, and we’re still working through the residual effects of the pandemic. The lack of access to technology for some students has exacerbated existing equity issues.

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Delivering civic value to communities – the impact of UK universities’ social science research

HEPI

UK universities have increasingly had to speak the language of ‘impact’, which has become another addition to the sector’s lexicon of buzzwords. but what is laid bare by the data in the report and the accompanying dashboard is that this strength is spread across university social science schools and departments in the whole of the UK.

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Ethical Considerations for AI in Higher Education: Ensuring Fairness and Transparency

Liaison International

In this evolving landscape, higher education, too, is experiencing the transformative power of AI. But while many people may see the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT and think higher education is heading into unexplored waters, AI for higher education is not a new idea, and ChatGPT is just one tool in the AI arsenal.

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Furman University and 14 Others Collectively Awarded $8.625 Million to Improve Inclusion for STEM Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Furman University and 14 other institutions have collectively been awarded $8.625 million to improve inclusion for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Furman will receive $931,600 of the $8.625.

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What next for career planning for researchers?

University Business

And in some cases, an academic career might be the least likely of these potential outcomes, as researchers go on to deploy their skills in broader education and industry settings. Consequently, preparing researchers for a range of post-program trajectories has become common practice in universities and their faculties and schools.

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Beyond Groupthink: A Mixed Economy Model for Higher Education Funding

HEPI

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Peter Ainsworth, the author of Setting Universities Free: How to deliver a sustainable student funding system (2022) Picture the 1930s economic slump, absent Keynes’s challenge to prevailing thought.

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Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Emily MacLeod , Research Assistant, and Professor Louise Archer , Karl Mannheim Chair of Sociology of Education, at UCL. We know that women students and staff remain underrepresented in Higher Education STEM disciplines. These ‘Step Up!’ To request hard copies of these ‘Step-Up!’