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Regulatory burden could clog the lifelong learning revolution

Wonkhe

Fresh from her appearance at committee, Rachel Sandby-Thomas sets out the regulatory issues that could blunt the power of the lifelong loan entitlement The post Regulatory burden could clog the lifelong learning revolution appeared first on Wonkhe.

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1 in 4 Prospective Students Ruled Out Colleges Due to Their States' Political Climates

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Eva Surovell Racial equity and reproductive rights were the top policy issues cited by high-school seniors in weighing colleges, an Art & Science Group survey found.

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The Journey to a Million applicants to HE starts today

Wonkhe

UCAS is forecasting a million applicants to HE by 2030. Chief executive Clare Marchant introduces the data projections that will start a thousand conversations The post The Journey to a Million applicants to HE starts today appeared first on Wonkhe.

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My Second Conversation with ChatGPT: Can It Be My Teaching Aid?

Faculty Focus

Not long ago, I had a conversation with ChatGPT to find out how well it would do in a course I teach for professors at my institution. This was an interesting talk, where I experienced its great potential as well as the important limitations of the bot. Now the time has come for us to have a second conversation. Although I will focus on the same course (one about how to write multiple-choice questions), this time I want to find out whether ChatGPT can function as my teaching aid.

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Is everyone onboard the journey to a million?

Wonkhe

UCAS projects a million applicants by 2030 - David Kernohan asks if the government is ready enough to ensure providers can cope The post Is everyone onboard the journey to a million? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Hold Fast to Dreams: Parting Words from Dr. Charlie Nelms

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

"I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and learned how to serve." --Albert Schweitzer While growing up in the Arkansas Delta, my parents, preachers, and teachers agreed on one thing above all else: education is the engine of opportunity for individual success and the transformation of the Black community

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My Second Conversation with ChatGPT: Can It Be My Teaching Aid?

Faculty Focus

Not long ago, I had a conversation with ChatGPT to find out how well it would do in a course I teach for professors at my institution. This was an interesting talk, where I experienced its great potential as well as the important limitations of the bot. Now the time has come for us to have a second conversation. Although I will focus on the same course (one about how to write multiple-choice questions), this time I want to find out whether ChatGPT can function as my teaching aid.

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BBC rejects charge of elitist Oxbridge bias in University Challenge

The Guardian - Higher Education

Corporation denies breach of impartiality rules by ‘rigging’ show in favour of Oxford and Cambridge The BBC has rejected charges of elitism aimed at its University Challenge quiz show and defended allowing separate Oxford and Cambridge colleges to enter the contest while limiting other universities to one entry each. The long-running show, which will broadcast a quarter-final match on Monday in its 52nd series, typically includes at least 10 entries from Oxbridge colleges, with the remaining 18

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STEM innovation in constrained economic times – the UK in an international context by Professor Ian Walmsley, Provost of Imperial College

HEPI

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Ian Walmsley, the Provost of Imperial College London and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford. This year, 2023, began with both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition talking about Britain’s future. This focus has intensified with measures intended to ‘to cement this country’s place as a scientific superpower’ by 2030.

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Temple Strike Ends After Grad Students Accept Deal - Ryan Quinn, Inside Higher Ed

Economics and Change in Higher Education

The Temple University graduate student workers’ strike, which lasted over a month and got ugly when the university pulled tuition and health insurance benefits, has come to an end. Temple University’s graduate student workers have approved a new union contract that includes thousands of dollars in raises, ending a walkout that began Jan. 31 and had included the university temporarily axing strikers’ health coverage and tuition remission.

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Clusterluck: A Spark of Black Joy in the Academy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Clusterluck , a documentary short produced by Dr. Candace N. Hall, graduate program director and assistant professor for the higher education and student affairs program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), begins on a sobering note. White text on a black background tells us that African Americans make up only 5.4% of the full-time faculty in post-secondary education.

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Duke to Challenge Ph.D. Students’ Right to Unionize - Ryan Quinn, Inside Higher Ed

Economics and Change in Higher Education

The Service Employees International Union–affiliated Duke Graduate Students Union is currently trying to earn recognition after a failed attempt in 2016–17. Matthew Thomas, a Duke teaching assistant who co-chairs that union, told Inside Higher Ed that “Duke is declaring war on the grad union movement.” “Undergrads, postdocs, non-tenure-track faculty and academic researchers are forming unions,” Thomas said of the national picture.

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Climate Change, the University, and ‘The Great Displacement’

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle Published in February of 2023. I finished reading The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration the same day I received my copy of Bryan Alexander's new book Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis.

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Memorializing a Fraught Past

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Before he became among the latest symbols of corporate irresponsibility, Sam Bankman-Fried was a staunch advocate for effective altruism—the debts we owe to future generations. But what about the debts we owe the past? How should we commemorate events and figures when their legacies are fraught or at best ambiguous? In terms of memorials, this society is better at tearing down than building up.