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China: jobs of future require vocational ed

The PIE News

Although popular subjects among Chinese students generally include business, management and engineering, this preference could create “a mismatch” between the skills graduates gain and the immediate demands of high-growth industries in China, the organisation warned in a new white paper on the country’s international education market.

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Int’l education debates AI wins and warnings

The PIE News

Likewise, consultant and Education Rethink co-founder and managing director Anna Esaki-Smith highlighted both sides of the coin in her recent white paper, co-authored by Duolingo English Test’s senior strategic engagement executive Lindsay Addington. And if AI built into a high-touch, human-based advising service, then I’m all for it.”

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Interest rate changes could challenge universities, student loans and post 16 and vocational education

SRHE

Over the last hundred years all major changes of this type have proceeded in this way ( i.e. Smith Report 1919, White Paper on Education 1943, Robbins Review 1964, Dearing Review 1997 and Browne Review 2011). Employers in the UK spend on average 50% less than their counterparts in mainland Europe on workforce education and training.

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

HEPI

It was an enactment of the ideas put forward in 2016 by Jo Johnson, then Universities Minister, in the White Paper, Success as a Knowledge Economy. Among other things, the White Paper posited that allowing new challenger institutions to flourish would help drive up quality across the sector.

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ChatGPT: Post-ASU+GSV Reflections on Generative AI

eLiterate

If you want a better version of a search engine, use Microsoft Bing Chat. Socrates was a prompt engineer. If you doubt me, ask ChatGPT, “How might teaching students about Socrates’ philosophy and method help them learn to become better prompt engineers?” I don’t just play with it. Far from it.

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Beyond Ideas: Implementing Innovative Structures in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 179 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Philomena "Philly" Mantella

The Change Leader, Inc.

They’ve been spending less time, if you will, in, I think you teach engineering wrong, X course should come first versus Y course. This paper talks about four things that high-performing higher ed institutions are doing, both here in the U. What are the support systems that aren’t there? It’s not that.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

I recently ran across a white paper called Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution out of MIT’s J-WEL center. While the paper contains no groundbreaking new ideas, the gestalt of it is interesting and timely. Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution. But strikes me as coherent.