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In the search for jobs, should disadvantaged students behave more like middle-class students … or should the labour market change?

HEPI

Plato around a seminar table this ain’t Wildavsky usefully nails the idea that higher education is contrary to skills-based learning, noting that even the ‘land-grant institutions’ founded in the US over a century ago provide practical experience. Learning begets learning. Many (most?) readers of this blog will be excluded altogether.

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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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Turing funding timeline in UK causing participants to drop out

The PIE News

The research found that less than half of higher education participants – 45% – felt the funding provided by Turing covered at least half of their costs on placement. This figure was higher for further education and vocational education and training participants at 86%.

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Three Stats That Signal the Transformation of Higher Education

Helix Education

Snapshot Data are used by almost everyone in higher education to help understand trends and dynamics. Where they are found is just one of the three statistics that I believe are key indicators of the transformational change that is afoot in American higher education. outweigh the disadvantages.

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Mobilities and the ‘international academic’ in higher education

SRHE

It was an interesting week full of presentations and discussions around the theme of Mobilities in Higher Education. In the opening plenary talk, Emily Henderson invited us to reflect critically on the different ways in which mobilities of academics and students in higher education are discursively constructed.

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Higher Ed Leaders and Scholars Discuss Promises and Pitfalls of AI Tool Usage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT can prove very valuable and promising in the realm of higher education but come with their own suite of issues that need to be considered, according to higher ed leaders and faculty who participated in a panel discussion on Wednesday.

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SOULS: The Academy’s Recipe for Transformation, Retention, and Creating a Better World

Insight Into Diversity

Interestingly, the veil that Du Bois wrote about still exists today, especially in the American Academy — the network of colleges, universities, associations, and organizations that provide and support higher education — despite the fact that some of America’s most illustrious educational institutions are headed by Black provosts and presidents.

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