Wonkhe

JANUARY 22, 2023

Andy Westwood makes the case for a joined-up education system and a blueprint for policy that could be picked up by Labour for the next general election and beyond The post Why Labour should prioritise tertiary reform over tuition fees appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Just as pocket calculators, personal computers, and smartphones have posed threats to students learning math skills, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the new tool poised to undermine the use of writing assignments to assess student learning. In November 2022, a tool called ChatGPT made headlines for its ability to “write” any content. As an instructional designer, I immediately heard from worried faculty that the sky may be falling, wondering what chance they had in the face of robots th

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 22, 2023

Higher and further education providers urgently need to get better at measuring and reporting their carbon footprint. EAUC interim chief executive Fiona Goodwin introduces a new standardised carbon emissions framework. The post Accelerating the sector’s journey to net zero appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 22, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation How do academic libraries spend their money? The figure, created from IPEDS data collected in 2020, shows academic library spending in four categories across institution type. At four-year Title IV degree-granting non-profit institutions, the biggest expense is salaries, wages, and benefits. People costs. A close second is materials/service expenditures, with about 40 cents of every dollar in this category.

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Academe Blog

JANUARY 22, 2023

BY JENNIFER RUTH In April 2019, a friend and I visited the grave of Lin Zhao in Suzhou, China to pay respect to one of history’s bravest defenders of intellectual freedom. Scanning a hill dotted with around 300 gravestones, we saw three CCTV cameras trained on one spot and climbed to it.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Just as pocket calculators, personal computers, and smartphones have posed threats to students learning math skills, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the new tool poised to undermine the use of writing assignments to assess student learning. In November 2022, a tool called ChatGPT made headlines for its ability to “write” any content. As an instructional designer, I immediately heard from worried faculty that the sky may be falling, wondering what chance they had in the face of robots th

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

Caring Campus, a program to have faculty contribute to fostering a culture of caring for students at schools, is related to observable benefits, according to a recent report by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University. Dr. Elisabeth Barnett Caring Campus is a program that began in 2018 by the Institute for Evidence-Based Change (IEBC) to involve higher ed staff in improving engagement with students and creating a ‘culture of caring’ at community colleges.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 22, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma In 1934, a year after Hitler’s ascent to power, Ernst Jünger, a World War I storm trooper, published an essay rejecting liberal, bourgeois society’s embrace of security, ease, pleasure, and comfort. He called instead for a new man who was willing to accept pain and discipline and adopt a cold, detached outlook on human life.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

In a report this week, Gartner predicted that the most successful companies this year will be the ones “more comfortable assessing candidates solely on their ability to perform in the role, rather than their credentials and prior experience.” That translates to a de-emphasis on four-year degrees, McRae says: One of the most useful ways to attract “nontraditional candidates” is removing education requirements.

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HEPI

JANUARY 22, 2023

This HEPI blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Natalie Day, Johnny Rich and Professor Sir Chris Husbands. Writing for HEPI in December, Mary Curnock Cook and Malcolm Grant argued that the ways in which the Office for Students applies QAA methodology to new entrants to HE prevents the emergence of different forms of higher education provision. As a result, the vision of a more diverse higher education system which lay at the heart of Jo Johnson’s Higher Education and Research Act (2017) was n

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