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Transforming Education in the Age of AI: Challenges and Opportunities

HEPI

I echo the sentiments of computer scientist Professor Argamon, who views AI as a technology that can make education more human-centred rather than replacing teachers. AI enables educators to focus on the most critical aspect of their workteaching and mentoring students rather than merely delivering courses.

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Did Egalitarians Wreck the British Education System? – Review of ‘A Revolution Betrayed’ by Peter Hitchens

HEPI

Review of Peter Hitchens’s new book ‘A Revolution Betrayed : How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System’ by Paul Ashwin, Professor of Higher Education, Head of Department and Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Higher Education, Lancaster University. The emphasis on the size of schools is telling.

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Rethinking the Financial Challenge of English Universities

HEPI

They introduced fees, first as a small proportion of the actual cost in 2006, and then to cover the entire cost in 2012 (at least for Business degrees, Humanities and the Social Sciences). Obviously, this will not be possible on the existing cost structures or business models of higher education. The challenge was how to pay for it.

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From Small-Town Roots to National Honor: SC Native Receives State's Highest Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

billion and nearly 200 employees, he helps to leads the largest federal entity dedicated to funding educational research. Service to humanity is the hallmark of philosophy, and in many ways, it shaped who I am and what I'm about in my day to day. With a budget of approximately $1.8

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AI cheating is overwhelming the education system – but teachers shouldn’t despair | John Naughton

The Guardian - Higher Education

And some university professors, especially in the humanities, will be apprehensively pondering how to deal with students who are already more adept users of large language models (LLMs) than they are. Parents are starting to fret about lunch packs, school uniforms and schoolbooks. They’re right to be concerned.

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How to integrate artificial intelligence into career and academic advising

University Business

Today, our higher education system needs to bridge the gap between college and the workforce, ensuring that graduates enter the job market with a clear career path and a good understanding of their options and opportunities. Defining academic and career advising as human-centered processes positions AI as a supportive resource.

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Is England really the world champion in overqualification?

HEPI

If accurate, this statistic seems to reflect a substantial waste of human capital and raises questions about the state of the UK labour market and education system. The nuances of national education systems can render such comparisons tenuous. Simplistic diagnoses risk distracting from the real challenges.