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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

Many organisations work hard to tackle the reality that disadvantaged students tend to have less meaningful networks – in the past, HEPI has worked with some of them (such as JobTeaser, Gradcore and Handshake). Moreover, the pandemic increased isolation and worsened mental health.

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Turing funding timeline in UK causing participants to drop out

The PIE News

Aneta Hayes, dean of internationalisation in the faculty of humanities and social sciences at Keele University said many of findings of the report align with the experiences at Keele, and what she has heard across the sector. For Hayes, the major flaw is in the design of the scheme.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The fast pace at which AI tools can gather and process data and can develop early warning systems for student advisers to use is valuable, he said, adding that human analysts will still be needed to distinguish between patterns of correlation from causation.

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

Insight Into Diversity

In the Academy, one consequence is a revolving door of Black faculty and staff who have become homeless in an otherwise spacious Academy, as well as Black students whose academic careers are either undermined or cut short for lack of Black role models.

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Dismantling Global Injustices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. At URI, he teaches a wide range of classes on human rights, international relations theory, political violence, Black protests, and research methods. He later earned a master’s and Ph.D.

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Dismantling Global Injustices - Dr. Brendan Skip Mark

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. At URI, he teaches a wide range of classes on human rights, international relations theory, political violence, Black protests, and research methods. He later earned a master’s and Ph.D.

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Africa “can take the wheel” in global research shift

The PIE News

Higher education leaders are calling for a science and research “rebalance” to supercharge global scholarship and create a research ecosystem that doesn’t disadvantage Africa and the Global South. “In this way, Africa’s agency will be fully recognised, reinforced and protected for achieving the envisioned Afrofutures.”