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International graduates found to earn less than Canadian peers

The PIE News

However, [this] does not necessarily explain the difference in income observed at the masters and doctoral levels, wrote Etmanski, highlighting that a large proportion of international graduates at this level worked in the natural and applied sciences, where incomes are higher than average. Source: Statistics Canada.

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German language barrier stalls African nurse recruitment

The PIE News

The partnership between Koblenz University of Applied Sciences and Kenya’s Mount Kenya University , whichpiloted over 2023 and 2024, has slowed because few candidates meet the required language skills. Once we are including further professions, we will be moving to other countries in East Africa,” he added.

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India a ‘target country’ for Finland’s Talent Boost program

The PIE News

The program, coordinated by Finlands ministry of economic affairs and employment, and ministry of education and culture, encourages education-based and work-based immigration. I am glad that Finnish educational institutes are interested in setting up cooperation and research programs here to facilitate educational collaboration.

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Using Generative AI to “Hack Time” for Implementing Real-World Projects

Faculty Focus

In that article, we made a case for enabling real-world clients as partner educators. We piloted the two bots in a Strategic Communications course taught at the NYU School of Professional Studies, Division of Programs in Business, during the spring 2024 semester. Faculty Focus , March 2022.) So, how did the bots do?

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Ask not what you can do for engineering…

HEPI

To the age of 16, a pupil can pass through education blithely unaware that engineering exists, let alone what it entails. Thats quite an ask to make of a 15-year-old with no prior educational experience in engineering. i] On the contrary, engineering is almost entirely absent from the school curriculum. Thats a deeply reductive view.

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Not using AI is “disservice” to students 

The PIE News

According to a 2024 survey of nearly 3,000 students and instructors across North America, 45% of students currently use AI as compared to only 15% of instructors. However, 58% of students reported feeling that they do not have sufficient AI knowledge and skills, and 48% do not feel adequately prepared for an AI-enabled workplace.

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Netherlands records slowest int’l student growth in nine years

The PIE News

The decline is not surprising at all – none of the regulations changing English language programs to be taught in Dutch have actually happened yet – but this is a gut reaction by the market based on the perception of studying in the Netherlands,” Peter Birdsall, president of Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences, told The PIE News.