Wonkhe
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Jim Dickinson reviews a new report on "debate" on campus, and finds its assumptions about what "debate" is and where it happens troubling. The post Debate on campus must mean more than Punch and Judy appeared first on Wonkhe.
HEM (Higher Education Marketing)
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Reading Time: 10 minutes Creating the right content for social media can be a challenge for most schools. But an even bigger challenge is getting the response you want from your target audience. Some schools put a lot of time, effort, and creativity into their social media messages, but they just don’t seem to get the levels of engagement they want.
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Wonkhe
OCTOBER 12, 2022
A statistical quirk means the UK, without doing anything new, may have hit its 2.4 per cent R&D target. James Coe considers what happens next. The post Exploring the politics of hitting 2.4 per cent appeared first on Wonkhe.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Higher education institutions are in a vulnerable position when it comes to cybersecurity. In an alert issued by the FBI earlier this year, the nation’s top law enforcement agency warned that agents have identified U.S. college and university credentials advertised for sale on the dark web and publicly accessible internet forums. When breaches occur in higher education, more than just grades are at stake.
Wonkhe
OCTOBER 12, 2022
As the focus on student mental health becomes ever sharper, Chantel Le Carpentier outlines what's working in improving the support universities provide. The post How can we continue to improve university mental health support? appeared first on Wonkhe.
eLiterate
OCTOBER 12, 2022
I know I’ve been on a bit of a tear lately about artificial intelligence (AI). I promise e-Literate won’t turn into the “all AI all the time” blog. That said, since I have identified it as a potential factor in a coming tipping point for education, I think it’s important that we sharpen our intuitions about what we can and can’t expect to get from it.
The Berkeley Blog
OCTOBER 12, 2022
For over 230 days, Ukraine has been resisting Russian aggression. This war brings death and destruction at a scale not seen in Europe since WWII and the ripples of the war are felt everywhere—from the Ukrainian families who lost their loved ones to African countries that face the prospect of hunger. A long war rather.
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Coursera blog
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Meet Kira! She’s based in Salt Lake City, Utah. After being passed up for several promotions at her librarian job, she decided to invest in new leadership skills through courses on Coursera. After initial success with these courses, she then applied to the iMBA program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign through the Performance-Based Admissions Track (PAT).
FIRE
OCTOBER 12, 2022
After a student group’s messages including racial and homophobic slurs leaked on social media, students demanded the university take action.
The Guardian - Higher Education
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Union boss says workers are pursuing above-inflation pay rise after ‘real-terms cut since 2010’ Teachers in sixth-form colleges in England are the latest workers to be balloted over strike action in pursuit of an above-inflation pay rise. The National Education Union (NEU), which represents the majority of teachers in the sixth-form college sector, said members had voted overwhelmingly in an indicative ballot for a pay rise to exceed RPI, which was 11.7% at the time of the original claim.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Although Penn State has cut costs in a number of ways — with a “strategic hiring freeze” and a 3% rescission, or across-the-board cut — rising costs and surging inflation have helped to reduce gains from additional revenue. Still, with this fiscal year’s budget, the university’s general funds deficit is projected to shrink about 25% to $149 million, which will be funded by reserves.
The Guardian - Higher Education
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Jeni Larmour died hours after arriving at university having been given tranquilliser drug by another A university student from Northern Ireland who was found dead on her first night at university after taking a lethal combination of ketamine and alcohol was told “This is how we do it in England”, a coroner’s court heard. Jeni Larmour, 18, from Newtownhamilton, died hours after arriving at Newcastle University in October 2020, having taken ketamine given to her “by another”, in a case of misadven
Economics and Change in Higher Education
OCTOBER 12, 2022
In a Wednesday address to Western Washington University, president Sabah Randhawa reflected on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, discussed the university's strategic plan and looked to the future and its impending budget shortfalls. Randhawa reported that students of color represent 29% of the entire university this year and that first-year enrollment stands at its highest yet with 3,237 students.
HEPI
OCTOBER 12, 2022
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Lesley Dobree, Leadership Coach and Leadership Consultant/ Advisor with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). The blog is the fourth in our series on leadership in partnership with NCEE. Being a consistently good and effective leader is not easy. In recent months, there has been much media focus and debate about what makes a successful leader and, conversely, why leaders falter and become less effective in their roles.
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