Wonkhe
JULY 30, 2023
Jim Dickinson reflects on conversations with students about the state of the country and their education - and senses a dangerous alienation in their responses and outlook The post Welcome to the alien nation appeared first on Wonkhe.
HEPI
JULY 30, 2023
This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by John Raftery, interim Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton, and Gemma Kay, University of Wolverhampton, Aspire to HE. On Monday 14th August, 11am, we are hosting a webinar with UCAS Chief Executive Clare Marchant: you can register here. Where, and to whom, we are born are among the strongest forces affecting our life expectancy, our work careers, health outcomes, and the amount of taxes we pay over a lifetime.
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Academe Blog
JULY 30, 2023
By CHRISTOPHER ROBÉ AND DAWN L. ROTHE “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” Alice in Wonderland It is difficult for many of us in Florida to fully grasp how we have ended up as ground zero for the culture wars over gender, sexuality, Black history, and so much else.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
JULY 30, 2023
Last month, Progress Software announced that its popular file-transfer tool MOVEit was compromised by cybercriminals. The breach gave the attackers “unauthorized access to the MOVEit transfer database,” putting many large, sometimes sensitive files sent through the platform at risk. For colleges and universities that used MOVEit, including Johns Hopkins University, the attack triggered a campuswide security response.
Faculty Focus
JULY 30, 2023
Asynchronous online learning is gaining popularity with students from all walks of life to access academic programs from the comfort of their own homes. Similar to traditional classroom-based courses, one challenge students in an asynchronous online program face is fully understanding and meeting the requirements of assignments. While students can learn at their own pace, they have the disadvantage of limited contact with instructors and reduced opportunity of immediate feedback.
The Guardian - Higher Education
JULY 30, 2023
DWP asks one postgraduate to find £24,000 despite being told she was entitled to the universal credit claim Single mothers on postgraduate courses say they are being unfairly pursued by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over thousands of pounds in benefits which officials claim were paid in error. One researcher faces a demand of more than £24,000 after having been told she was entitled to claim universal credit.
Faculty Focus
JULY 30, 2023
Asynchronous online learning is gaining popularity with students from all walks of life to access academic programs from the comfort of their own homes. Similar to traditional classroom-based courses, one challenge students in an asynchronous online program face is fully understanding and meeting the requirements of assignments. While students can learn at their own pace, they have the disadvantage of limited contact with instructors and reduced opportunity of immediate feedback.
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The Guardian - Higher Education
JULY 30, 2023
President of Universities UK says ‘massive expansion’ of applicants after Covid will make places harder to secure Students could face tougher competition for places on some courses at leading universities this year after a “massive expansion” of applicants in the wake of the Covid pandemic, the president of Universities UK has warned. As A-level students await their results on 17 August, Sir Steve West said places on research-intensive courses such as medicine and dentistry at Russell Group univ
College Viability
JULY 30, 2023
Mapping At-Risk Metro Areas and Identifying Interventions to Sustain America’s Colleges and Universities
Economics and Change in Higher Education
JULY 30, 2023
For smart universities, the changes will allow them to focus on their unique selling points with high quality customer information about price, excellence and graduate employability. The onus will be on institutions to genuinely respond to student expectations rather than using rankings as a surrogate for quality. No need to pay middle men in the form of agents and aggregators because the students can do the searching for themselves.
The Guardian - Higher Education
JULY 30, 2023
Ron DeSantis’s slew of laws attacking teaching of race and gender issues sees state’s colleges struggle to fill faculty posts With the start of the 2023-24 academic year only six weeks away, senior officials at New College of Florida (NCF) made a startling announcement in mid-July: 36 of the small honors college’s approximately 100 full-time teaching positions were vacant.
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