HEPI

JULY 30, 2023

This Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) paints a grim picture of the UK’s inequalities. 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. What do we mean by ‘disadvantaged’? months of learning behind their peers.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

However, promotions and kudos sit firmly in citations and h-indexes rather than short form communication. The event description pitched the former, in government, thinking that academic research is too narrow, theoretical or impenetrable for their purposes focusing on critique rather than practical solutions. More West Wing below.

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Academic Tech Tips

JUNE 8, 2021

Inspiring and motivating students to learn about a topic or subject matter. To accommodate the substantial number of students enrolled in your class you are assigned to teach in the large lecture hall and so, you rely on lecture as your pedagogical approach. Does this describe your situation? Or maybe, you prefer a lecture style of teaching.

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It has indexed large swathes of the internet and many books. Anyway, after a few days of intermittent tinkering, I was able to produce a chatbot that could carry out a sustained and informative conversation about David Hume’s theory of epistemology, to the point where it gave me new insights into the subject.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

That’s because optimizing for search engines means optimizing for both humans and robots—the internet user who inputs a search query and the Google bots that crawl and index websites. A lot happens behind the scenes to create a search engine results page (SERP), but it all boils down to three basic elements: crawling, indexing, and ranking.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In HEPI’s 20th Anniversary Collection , Dr Mark Corver, Managing Director and co-founder of dataHE , set out the status quo of university funding. Commenting on that piece, he wrote: ‘With the existing system now deep in crisis, policymakers might well find a rapid and bold resetting of the system is worth the risk.’

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Locating and updating a card index is time-consuming and labor-intensive. For example, a librarian who incorrectly files a borrower's records or indexes a book slows down the process and wastes employees' time. The processes of book indexing, cataloging, book reservations, and overdue notifications are automated.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

MAY 27, 2022

It's been a while since I wrote about diversity using Simpson's Diversity Index, which is an ecologist's way of looking at diversity of a population. Compare enrollment to population scatters the Simpson's Diversity of the state population (ages 17 to 24 are selected) to the public college enrollment, subject to your selections.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Images of student athletes and coaches jubilantly raising an index finger, pridefully owning their prowess in rugby, Ultimate Frisbee, high jump, hurdles or the like. Reminder: These numbers are subject to the audit, which could mean the institution had a big deficit or a big surplus. Previous Year Highlights. External Factors.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

In stark contrast to prevailing trends in higher education, colleges and universities have or are boosting their enrollment, retention, and graduation rates by improving their students’ sense of belonging, student support services, student-faculty relationships, and career readiness programs. Learn more at changinghighered.com.

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GlobalHigherEd

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Editor’s note: this guest entry has been kindly developed by Gisèle Yasmeen , Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Yasmeen raises a series of important issues in the build-up to a call for a “structured dialogue” on the nature and role of knowledge in society. ~~~~~.

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eLiterate

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In my last post , I introduced the idea of thinking about different generative AI models as coworkers with varying abilities as a way to develop a more intuitive grasp of how to interact with them. I described how I work with my colleagues Steve ChatGPT, Claude Anthropic, and Anna Bard. This analogy can hold (to a point) even in the face of change.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 2, 2024

Political leaders, organizations, and campus communities are calling on college and university officials to assess and find ways to improve the campus climate and protect students from antisemitism and Islamophobia amid a rise in tensions during the Israel-Hamas war. Violent attacks on college campuses are also making national headlines.

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