Wonkhe
MARCH 3, 2024
Two years on from the report of the Student Futures Commission, rising costs are undermining efforts to build back post-Covid, warn Mary Curnock Cook and Richard Brabner The post The cost of learning crisis is creating new threats to students’ futures appeared first on Wonkhe.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 3, 2024
Most selective private colleges and universities in the U.S. still have disproportionately low enrollment numbers for Latino first-time, full-time undergraduate students, according to a recent report from The Education Trust. Sandra Perez The sequel to a 2020 report on Black and Latino enrollment at selective U.S. public institutions, the report turns its attention to the nation’s private schools, namely the 122 most selective private four-year colleges and universities in the nation.
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Wonkhe
MARCH 3, 2024
Jim Dickinson gets into the GTI/Cibyl polling underpinning the UPP Foundation's Student Futures 2 report - and finds collective strategic challenges for universities' growing group of Disabled students The post Disabled students need more than support plans and “fixing” appeared first on Wonkhe.
HEPI
MARCH 3, 2024
This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Ian Pickup , Pro Vice Chancellor, Students, at The Open University, and builds on opening and closing remarks made at a recent HEPI round table event. As I was leaving home to attend a recent HEPI roundtable event, my A-level-year-daughter asked where I was heading. On learning about the focus of the discussion, we chatted about the use of Generative AI tools amongst her peer group, and she wondered why my contemporaries were so flustered by this latest
Wonkhe
MARCH 3, 2024
The sector has relied on international fees for financial stability for years. David Kernohan plots what changing patterns mean for different kinds of provider The post Changes in international recruitment will have an impact on provider finances appeared first on Wonkhe.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 3, 2024
The National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) condemned the University of Florida's elimination of its diversity, equity, and inclusion staff. The elimination of jobs and programs "is evidence of the real effect legislative attacks are having on years of efforts to advance diversity and inclusion in higher education," said Paulette Granberry Russell, President & CEO of NADOHE.
The Guardian - Higher Education
MARCH 3, 2024
Parts of the structure are younger than expected while an east wind blows the whole thing across the desert, researchers find They are impressive, mysterious structures that loom out of deserts on the Earth and are also found on Mars and on Saturn’s biggest moon, Titan. Experts from universities including Aberystwyth in Wales have now pinpointed the age of a star dune in a remote area of Morocco and uncovered details about its formation and how it moves across the desert.
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Faculty Focus
MARCH 3, 2024
The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Campus leaders had to rethink the digital learning resources available, and faculty had to rapidly adapt to changes in delivery methods while keeping students engaged. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU).
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 3, 2024
How Presidents Could Take the Lead on Antisemitism Doug Lederman Sun, 03/03/2024 - 05:33 PM When students shout down a campus speaker, leaders should step up.
Faculty Focus
MARCH 3, 2024
The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Campus leaders had to rethink the digital learning resources available, and faculty had to rapidly adapt to changes in delivery methods while keeping students engaged. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU).
The Guardian - Higher Education
MARCH 3, 2024
Scheme allows three days off each term as high school stress and depression rates soar Taiwanese high schools will begin offering mental health leave to students this month, to address rising rates of youth suicide and high levels of stress and depression. Under the programme, high school students can apply for up to three days off each semester, taken as full or half days, without proof of need but with the permission of their parents.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
MARCH 3, 2024
Scores of students, faculty and admin testified into the night to Connecticut’s Appropriations Committee on Feb. 21 to ask the state for more funding in the 2025 fiscal year. The Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) system and the University of Connecticut were represented at the public hearing. The budget for the upcoming fiscal year would allocate $93 million less than what was provided to UConn in the 2024 fiscal year, and $64.2 million less than the university requested.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
MARCH 3, 2024
Were this any other year, the leader of Pennsylvania’s 10 state-owned universities simply might have needed to defend next year’s appropriation request and explain how it would enable a sixth consecutive tuition freeze. Instead, State System of Higher Education Chancellor Daniel Greenstein faced sharp questioning from state senators Wednesday about a more sweeping matter beyond his control — a proposed unification of the state’s two- and four-year campuses and all the details about it yet to eme
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