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Higher degrees or higher ambitions? A new approach to PhDs

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Christopher Smith , Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. In 2020/21, there were about 18,000 arts and humanities doctoral candidates. The gap between supply and demand is inverse to the situation in parts of science, where jobs requiring a PhD exceed the supply.

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Asian universities compete as global educators

The PIE News

Definitely a very attractive point for Asian destinations,” said Josephine Phinith, business development manager at ICEF. ICEF hosted a panel ‘Beyond the Big Four: This rise of Asian study destinations’ at its conference in Berlin on November 3. To aid this, getting a visa is becoming increasingly easy.

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Institutional autonomy: does it need an ‘academic community’?

HEPI

Publishing its Second Report in July 2012, the Lords’ Science and Technology Committee said it had ‘received substantial written evidence on the recent HE reforms’. This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching? I still vividly recall C.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. Nevertheless, agreed definition seems elusive. The Royal Society adopts the same wording. The Royal Society adopts the same wording. Under the Oxford and Cambridge Act (1877).

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Believing, Teaching, and Evolving Pedagogy Beyond the Pandemic: Lessons from Ted Lasso

Faculty Focus

Despite these harrowing times, I often looked to the arts—TV, movies, and videos—for collective understanding and joy in difficult times. ” Ted Lasso Ted Lasso was speaking about warming up for exercise to prevent injury, but self-care can take on many definitions. .” One of those respites was a new show called Ted Lasso.

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

Colleges are under growing pressure to prove their value to students, parents, legislators and others. The scrutiny can be uncomfortable, but more are responding with serious efforts to measure and explain their value. An edited transcript of the discussions follows. We have data from the U.S.

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