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The University Business Podcast: How to turn an evolution into a revolution

University Business

“It was great fun to come up with the idea and the model, but [the college] would have remained as a two-page white paper if we didn’t have innovative leadership, starting with our president to vice chancellor for research and our provost. The latter can be “stacked” to create a custom degree.

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China: jobs of future require vocational ed

The PIE News

Although popular subjects among Chinese students generally include business, management and engineering, this preference could create “a mismatch” between the skills graduates gain and the immediate demands of high-growth industries in China, the organisation warned in a new white paper on the country’s international education market.

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Have the Higher Education & Research Act and the Office for Students delivered for new and ‘challenger’ providers?

HEPI

It was an enactment of the ideas put forward in 2016 by Jo Johnson, then Universities Minister, in the White Paper, Success as a Knowledge Economy. Among other things, the White Paper posited that allowing new challenger institutions to flourish would help drive up quality across the sector.

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Int’l education debates AI wins and warnings

The PIE News

Likewise, consultant and Education Rethink co-founder and managing director Anna Esaki-Smith highlighted both sides of the coin in her recent white paper, co-authored by Duolingo English Test’s senior strategic engagement executive Lindsay Addington. And if AI built into a high-touch, human-based advising service, then I’m all for it.”

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ChatGPT: Post-ASU+GSV Reflections on Generative AI

eLiterate

If you want a better version of a search engine, use Microsoft Bing Chat. Socrates was a prompt engineer. If you doubt me, ask ChatGPT, “How might teaching students about Socrates’ philosophy and method help them learn to become better prompt engineers?” I don’t just play with it. Far from it.

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Is AI the New Homework Machine? Understanding AI and Its Impact on Higher EducationIs AI the New Homework Machine?

WCET Frontiers

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence group defines artificial intelligence as “a term coined by emeritus Stanford Professor John McCarthy in 1955, was defined by him as ‘the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.’

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Interest rate changes could challenge universities, student loans and post 16 and vocational education

SRHE

Over the last hundred years all major changes of this type have proceeded in this way ( i.e. Smith Report 1919, White Paper on Education 1943, Robbins Review 1964, Dearing Review 1997 and Browne Review 2011). Employers in the UK spend on average 50% less than their counterparts in mainland Europe on workforce education and training.