The Guardian - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

From starter packs to fake plants, here’s how to turn your uni accommodation into a stylish and functional living space This month, hundreds of thousands of students starting university or going into their second or third year will move into the room that will be their home for a while. Maybe you are going to be living with eight flatmates in a huge house-share, or perhaps you are moving into a room in a hall of residence.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

If interviews with students tell us anything, it’s that an ever-growing number of students are turning to AI as a first resort for almost everything following OpenAI’s public release of ChatGPT in November 2022. All of this points to an “AI inevitability” in academia in terms of students assuming its fair use. The way students see it, many jobs and industries don’t care as much about the process—as opposed to the product—as we do in academia.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

In more normal political times, higher education advocates, experts and lobbyists might be expecting to see progress on a number of issues once Congress returns from its August recess. They’d be optimistic, for starters, about the prospects for doubling the maximum Pell Grant award for students, expanding Pell to cover short-term programs like job training classes or standardizing federal financial aid applications.

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