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Comparison, clusters, or something else? The metric tide revisited and the future of research assessment

Wonkhe

The metric tide revisited could be the start of a revolution in research assessment. The post Comparison, clusters, or something else? The metric tide revisited and the future of research assessment appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Inspiring Your Students to Write, Cite, and Avoid Plagiarism

Faculty Focus

There may be no more serious issue for a student than facing an academic conduct hearing because of plagiarism. This certainly is not part of the expected college experience for students or parents. Faculty, however, often struggle with creating approaches that focus on why and how academic writing and the associated documenting guidelines enhance a student’s ability to communicate their thoughts and ideas.

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The Metric Tide, revisited

Wonkhe

The authors of The Metric Tide and today's long awaited sequel ask us to use data for good in research assessment, and to get league tables out of policy making. The post The Metric Tide, revisited appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Persuading Bryan Alexander (and Maybe You) to Read ‘The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future’

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future: What Yesterday’s Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow by Steven, Bob and Jay Novella. Published in September 2022. This post aims to persuade my friend Bryan Alexander (and maybe you) to read The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future. On March 28, 2023, Bryan’s new book, Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis (JHU Press), will come out.

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What should working in a university should look like?

Wonkhe

The pandemic enabled a more flexible, inclusive and connected university for staff. Sunday Blake and Mariella Brodersen consider how universities should take these values forward. The post What should working in a university should look like? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Unboxed: The Art of Fighting Off Limiting Labels

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What would happen if you gave yourself a chance to live out your purpose? When we allow external labels to restrict us, or we put ourselves in a box we are taking away that chance. The feeling of being confined to a certain title, role, or position is an issue that is often and chatted about behind closed doors but rarely addressed out in the open. This is not about being unappreciative for the role that you may have for it is true that a person can flourish in a position that is assigned to th

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A convent, two gangs, community organising, and a documentary

Wonkhe

James Purnell explains how university leaders can embrace the "effective power" of community organising. The post A convent, two gangs, community organising, and a documentary appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Fully automated luxury research assessment?

Wonkhe

The REF is hard work - so could we get machines to do it? David Kernohan looks at the latest evidence. The post Fully automated luxury research assessment? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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After Three and a Half Weeks, New School Strike Ends With Tentative Agreement

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Katherine Mangan. Nearly 1,800 part-time faculty members who have been on strike since November 16 will return to work at the New York City university following word that negotiators had reached a deal.

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Inspiring Your Students to Write, Cite, and Avoid Plagiarism

Faculty Focus

There may be no more serious issue for a student than facing an academic conduct hearing because of plagiarism. This certainly is not part of the expected college experience for students or parents. Faculty, however, often struggle with creating approaches that focus on why and how academic writing and the associated documenting guidelines enhance a student’s ability to communicate their thoughts and ideas.

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Discounted tuition by major devalues the humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

In response to Fidel Tavárez’s November 17 opinion piece, “ Humanities Majors Should Pay Lower Tuition ” and in support of Karen Spierling’s September 13 Letter to the Editor, “ ’Stop With the Academic Clickbaiting’ on the Humanities” : The argument for discounting humanities tuition is a slippery slope that is built on unchallenged and false assumptions.

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Schools in England face ‘significant squeeze’ on budgets, IFS report finds

The Guardian - Higher Education

Annual survey reveals further education and sixth form colleges could experience particular hardship Schools in England still face a “significant squeeze” on their budgets despite extra funding from the government, while colleges, universities and early years provision will have to account for rising prices without any additional help, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

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4 Keys to Getting Rural Broadband Right - Brent Skorup and Patricia Patnode, Governing

Economics and Change in Higher Education

It’s not just about the dollars but about spending the money effectively. The focus should be on reducing costs for the private companies that provide most of the investment, rather than propping up sickly projects. In our estimation, the main villain for states and Internet service providers is complexity. The Government Accountability Office recently reported that there are more than 100 federal broadband programs at more than a dozen agencies.

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Everything you need to know about an effective Faculty Management Solution

Creatrix Campus

Everything you need to know about an effective Faculty Management Solution. editor. Mon, 12/12/2022 - 01:57. Providing the best faculty management or faculty experience is as important as providing the student experience. Institutions are acting quickly now, more than ever, to ensure that faculty and staff feel safe, supported, and have the best employee experience possible — whether they are in a classroom or their living room.

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Comprehensive Learner Record Standard™ - IMS Global

Economics and Change in Higher Education

The Comprehensive Learner Record Standard™ (CLR Standard™) is the new generation of secure and verifiable learning and employment records supporting all nature of academic and workplace recognition and achievements including courses, competencies and skills and employer-based achievements and milestones. Recommended by AACRAO, the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, the Comprehensive Learner Record Standard™ from 1EdTech is a technical specification designed to

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Have the Higher Education & Research Act and the Office for Students delivered for new and ‘challenger’ providers?

HEPI

This blog is provided by Professor Sir Malcolm Grant and Mary Curnock Cook CBE. Sir Malcolm chairs the PLUS Alliance, which sponsors TEDI London; Mary Curnock Cook chairs the Council of the Dyson Institute and is a non-executive Director at the London Interdisciplinary School, and is also a Trustee of HEPI. The Higher Education & Research Act 2017 (HERA) was conceived in a different policy age.

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Why should Higher Education Institutes invest in Faculty Management Software?

Creatrix Campus

Why should Higher Education Institutes invest in Faculty Management Software? editor. Mon, 12/12/2022 - 01:06. All sizes of higher education institutions can benefit from having a single faculty management software where all faculty can view, and access essential data. The conventional, or outdated, method of meeting these communication needs requires faculty to regularly send and receive spreadsheets and documents, or even print out hard copies of the information.