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5 ways to improve civic engagement among your students

University Business

Higher education plays a critical role in civic engagement and safeguarding democracy, a new white paper from Complete College America suggests. The report also contends that higher education is an “engine” for economic mobility as one’s median annual earnings increase with levels of education.

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Complete College America Offers Playbook on How Higher Education Can Bolster Civic Engagement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

released a white paper that outlines how U.S. Higher education is an engine for social and economic mobility. Hopefully, that will help policy makers reprioritize how funds are allocated to fuel that engine. Complete College America (CCA), which has the mission to raise postsecondary attainment in the U.S.,

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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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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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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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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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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

I recently ran across a white paper called Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution out of MIT’s J-WEL center. While the paper contains no groundbreaking new ideas, the gestalt of it is interesting and timely. Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution. But strikes me as coherent.