SRHE

MARCH 22, 2024

by Panagiota (Peny) Sotiropoulou At the beginning of February 2024, I attended the in-person workshop on Using Diary Method in Social Research , organised by the SRHE and facilitated by Dr Emily Henderson, Dr Zoe Baker and Dr Ahmad Akkad.

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The PIE News

APRIL 2, 2024

The granular approach allows institutions to tweak commission terms on a per-place basis, considering variables such as course demand, time of year, tuition fee and percentage commission share and global exchange rates. Feezy changes how providers agree commission and secure load pipelines with agents.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2024

Sidechat assured Harvard that it will monitor posts to ensure they follow its terms of use and community guidelines. The university reached out to Sidechat after student reports of “concerning” content.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Students’ retention and completion rates increased at the same rate as their average term credits. A part-time student taking nine to 11 credits per term had a 50% chance of completion, nearly double that of the student taking six to eight credits. jobs will require education or training beyond high school.” The reason?

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HEPI

JANUARY 13, 2024

The PwC report has just landed but the response to it has, so far, been muted (though the Times Higher Education and the Financial Times have run useful pieces). HEPI Director Nick Hillman takes a look at PwC’s new assessment of the financial health of the UK’s higher education institutions. So what does the report actually find?

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In terms of literature, 19% of articles on AI in ELT have come from China, with 72% coming from Asia as a continent. The superpowers in AI are the US, China and Europe, but the latter is probably a fair bit behind those two. But you can see why that is – that listening is nonexistent in terms of AI adaptation. “In

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The PIE News

MARCH 13, 2024

In a letter dated March 11, James Cleverly wrote to chair of the MAC, Brian Bell, outlining the terms of reference for the “rapid” review of the UK’s Graduate Route, commissioned by the government, requesting the findings be presented to him by May 14.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Skills-based hiring and the short-term certificates touted to help students gain industry experience and professionalism have gained a lot of momentum at the start of the new decade. The HEA Group used data from the U.S. It wouldn’t be incorrect to assume that the value of a college degree has come under fire.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Currently, women are underrepresented not only in terms of those pursuing degrees in tech-related fields but in the tech workforce as well,” said Dr. Judith Spitz, founder and executive director of Break Through Tech.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

What I think was really brilliant about the way the community colleges used the resources was they put students first,” said Dr. Karen A. Stout said that colleges with strategic financial plans were more easily able to invest HEER funds into long-term projects. Some colleges might have even shut their doors permanently. “We

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totallyrewired

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Join us from 1pm – 1:45pm for any of the following sessions this term. Join us from 1pm – 1:45pm for any of the following sessions this term. Martin Compton, Kings College 13 Oct How are university students using AI? Kristina Thiele, UAL 10 Nov Ethical curating using AL tools.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Using the University Mental Health Charter to improve student and staff wellbeing I was privileged to be asked to comment on the draft University Mental Health Charter (UMHC) with my transitions specialist hat on when it was being created. This piece is the second part of two discussing the rise in student mental health issues.

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Today's Learner

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

adults who have heard of it say they have used it, and those under 30 are far more likely than older adults to have experimented with the technology. I use [AI-checker] websites. Depending on who you ask, the use of AI in those contexts might sound daunting, exciting or something in-between. adults are familiar with ChatGPT.

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The PIE News

MARCH 21, 2024

The council’s introduction comes amid a dramatic increase in AI usage with research suggesting that more than one in every two students uses the tool in their learning journey. Already, governments are creating regulations and legislation for the use of AI in education. Where aren’t we looking? Where aren’t we looking?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. Others seek to protect public discourse from malicious uses of text generators that could undermine democracies. Bengio is a professor of computer science at the University of Montreal.

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HEPI

MARCH 4, 2024

The TEF has been criticised for its focus on short-term metrics, such as student satisfaction and graduate employment rates, which can lead institutions to prioritise these metrics in the interim, even if it means sacrificing long-term quality. This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Dr Helena Lim , Head of Opportunities at evasys.

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University Business

APRIL 18, 2024

Register Now Date & Time: Thursday, May 23rd at 2 pm ET Across higher education, institutions of every size and type are facing looming challenges posed by aging campus buildings and a growing backlog of deferred maintenance needs.

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ACRLog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Contract and term positions are all too common for early-career academic librarians. Lacey’s powerful final lines read, “[w]e need to hold each other accountable for how and why we use precarious work in libraries.” We were wondering if there was a better way to cover for librarians who go on leave than relying on term positions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Leyva’s research explores how interlocking systems of power, including racism and cisheteropatriarchy, impact classroom teaching and student support in undergraduate mathematics and STEM higher education. Congrats, colleagues!” Dr. Donna Y. Ford envisions him having an impact on recruitment and retention.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

Reuters reported that a proposal under consideration by the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar would require law schools to hire full-time legal writing instructors and other untenured full-time faculty on five-year “presumptively renewable long-term contracts.” The proffer — offered initially in a Nov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

HBCU endowment professionals participated in a focus group, providing deeper insights into their experiences and the ways in which they use their resources to uplift students and their communities. HBCUs are substantially more risk averse than non-HBCUs, 2.) smaller HBCU endowments limit infrastructure and capabilities, 3.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2023

It’s a short-term fix, not a long-term solution,” Bultas said. “I The dog used in this study was a three-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Integrating a therapy dog into the classroom increases mental health support for nursing students, according to a recent study from Saint Louis University.

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Today's Learner

JANUARY 24, 2024

Good stories surprise us. They make us think and feel. Historically, storytelling was used to pass along knowledge and values. When it comes to conveying new ideas, concepts, and information, the use of stories has pretty much always been used since the beginning of mankind.

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The PIE News

MARCH 13, 2024

Tell us about the key aims of the British Council in Malaysia. The third is connecting our institutions, in particular in terms of supporting research, initiatives such as transnational education and also supporting agendas such as women in leadership in higher education. What do you like most about your job? The people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One of the characteristics that sets this report apart is how it separates students not only by part-time versus full-time, but also by splitting within those two categories themselves in terms of annual credits taken, what the report authors refer to as ‘degree velocity.’ Sarah Collins Ad Astra’s 2024 Benchmark Report – released on Feb.

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ACRLog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s a word I use frequently: in conversation, in the classroom, in one-on-one consultations. I like the sense of intention the word engenders, the space it creates for reflection on process, how it helps us think about such work in terms of concepts, not just clicks.

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The PIE News

APRIL 4, 2024

“That could have put us out of business,” McGowan continued. “From a business perspective, we were able to reduce the initial investment needed in terms of building out a centre and operating it… The wider commercial catchment area makes the whole model more attractive.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

Dr. Mark Milliron The partnership, in the form of a pilot program which kicked off in 2021, has allowed NU faculty to use Riipen’s online platform to source employers willing to offer work experience and project opportunities to students and add these projects into their curricula. “As NU is one of over 430 postsecondary institutions in U.S.

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The PIE News

MARCH 27, 2024

Sweden’s Council for Higher Education (UHR) released the Integration in the Labour Market, Skills Supply and the Recognition of Foreign Qualifications report, showing recognition statements are significant for immigrants in both the “short and long term”.

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University Business

MARCH 7, 2024

Report: How Higher Education is Using Technology to Control Expenses and Accelerate Innovation As higher ed leaders consider their technology investments for the year ahead, they will need to balance the need to overcome immediate challenges with the imperative to strategize for their institutions’ long-term futures.

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The PIE News

APRIL 12, 2024

A target of sending one million US college students abroad annually by 2010 failed, with only 1% of all US college students doing so in the 2021/22 academic year – the equivalent of almost 188,000. South Korea, Bali and Indonesia are the most popular study destinations in Asia Exchange’s Asian portfolio.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Originating in chattel slavery and continuing through the Jim Crow era and into the present day, the benchmark for our collective societal participation has never been about who we are as individuals but about what we can provide to others in terms of economic value.

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Today's Learner

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The term “DFW rate” refers to the percentage of students in a course or program who receive a D or F, or who withdraw (W) from the course. Research has shown that courses with high DFW rates become barriers to long-term college completion and success. Online classes tend to have less completions than in-person classes.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The student housing company stated that the new round of funding will be used to continue efforts at global expansion, as well as for enhancing its AI-based pricing engine for property managers. Amber plans to use the funding for securing more suppliers and property managers, as it believes its current supply of 7.5

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

As a geriatric millennial with a 20-year career as an educator and scholar, I am thrilled for what navigating this exciting—yet challenging and daring—landscape of AI for educators can mean for all of us. AI has been making its way into our daily lives in a plethora of ways, even though we have not always noticed it.

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The PIE News

JULY 5, 2023

The use of branch campuses can minimise students’ flights over the short to medium term, longer term times for international students, together with better online teaching provision, can help, it maintained.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It was a little difficult, though, to find actual uses of the Metaverse, as opposed to vague speculations about its future benefits, on the Accenture website. Well, that’s what $36 bn (yes, that’s billion) buys you. So all good. But of course that was then, in the far-off days of 2023. Possible negative effects of AI?

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