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As we come to the end of a busy yet curiously unsatisfying year in higher education news, David Kernohan and Sunday Blake pick out the key themes from 2022. The post UK higher education’s 2022 in review appeared first on Wonkhe.
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The cybersecurity threat landscape in higher education is constantly evolving. According to VMware’s “Global Incident Response Threat Report,” emerging threats against APIs and containers have gained traction during the past year, as have attacks using deepfakes. Supply chain threats also have become a significant concern, and all signs say that they will get worse in the near future.
Author Linda Moore talks about her new book Attribution (2022) about a PhD student named Cate who finds a mysterious painting in her university's basement. We dive into how to get comfortable talking about your book too!
The article addresses the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. It elucidates the SMC background, key assumptions, and the main pillars of the model to form a a change agent who could be helpful with institutional in-service delivery.
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The challenges for faculty working with students in the 21st century are rising. How can faculty meet the many challenges facing higher education? In the past, faculty could stand objectively in front of the class and provide didactic information to students via lecture. Students came to the classroom expecting information from a book and verbal lecture covering the content.
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This blog was kindly contributed by Lucy Haire, Director of Partnerships at HEPI. On the eve of the publication of the HEPI Policy Note with Handshake , How can you help me? Students’ perspectives on careers services and employment , a group of university careers service and mission group leaders, an Office for Students (OfS) representative and senior executives from Handshake gathered with colleagues from HEPI, for a roundtable to explore the implications of the report’s findings and practical
The UK’s prime minister has acknowledged the “significant economic and cultural contribution” international students make to the country, but stopped short of saying the UK should be attempting to recruit more. Rishi Sunak said the UK will always want to recruit the “best and the brightest” “International students do make a significant economic and cultural contribution to the UK’s higher education sector and indeed the UK.
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