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Navigating the AI revolution in higher education: a call to action

HEPI

AI is not a mere accessory to the academic toolkit; it represents a fundamental transformation of the educational paradigm. Too much of our current higher education system is still predicated on memorisation, a relic of a pre-digital era. This is not to dilute the rigours of academia but to enhance them.

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US Higher Education's Move to the Right

Higher Education Inquirer

higher education has been perceived as a bastion of liberal thought. The overwhelming majority of faculty members, especially in the humanities and social sciences, lean left politically, and university campuses have often been hotbeds of progressive activism. The Rise of Conservative Voices on Campus Historically, U.S.

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UGC chair reveals committee to review Indian entrance exam irregularities

The PIE News

It is in synergy with the erstwhile Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) Centres and Human Resource Development Centres (HRDCs) of the UGC. Integrating skill, vocational, and experiential learning into general education is also something that we are very active about.

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Supporting Neurodivergent College Students with Dr. Liz Norell

Continuous Learning Institute

Human bodies were not meant to sit still for 90 minutes or 75 minutes or even 50 minutes. I think if we all just centered the humanity and gave people the benefit of the doubt in our educational settings, no one would ever need any accommodations because we would already have the structures in place to create a human education system."

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Chinese College Meltdown: Credential Inflation and the Crisis in Higher Education Employment

Higher Education Inquirer

China's higher education system is facing a profound crisis, marked by rampant credential inflation, a saturated academic job market, and growing inequality between domestic and international degree holders. Broader Economic and Social Implications The implications of credential inflation extend beyond academia.

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Bank Holiday Reading: Higher Education and the green workforce transformation

HEPI

The UK Government’s Green Jobs Taskforce highlights that it is essential for more young people to leave the education system with green skills in order to deliver on a green workforce transformation. Furthermore, a wide range of emerging higher education programmes focus on areas directly relevant to the green workforce transformation.

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Culture wars: contemplations of ‘class’ from an academic caught in between

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Glenn Fosbraey, Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Winchester. My qualifications and publications may be evidence to the outside world that I belong in my position here in academia, but that’s very different to feeling I belong. I shouldn’t, but I do.