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January 31, 2019
News Items from the Week of January 11, 2019
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In Brexit uncertainty, universities face cash crisis as EU student numbers fall | The decline in EU student numbers, including a 9 per cent slump in postgraduates, has sparked fears that enrolments will be down across the rest of the sector which could push some universities closer to the brink of financial collapse.
Privacy Emerges as a Top Concern for Higher Education IT | As colleges increas...
News Items from the Week of January 4, 2019
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Nontraditional but More Collaborative: Edtech Trends for 2019 | One frustration frequently expressed by Top Hat customers has to do with a lack of coordination among edtech solutions. Because the tools have not been designed to work together, faculty often have to juggle several platforms at once.
Revealed: the universities most likely to award higher grades | The Irish Times has used a mix of...
January 24, 2019
News Items from the Week of December 28, 2018
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January 17, 2019
News Items from the Week of December 21, 2018
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Higher education’s role is to reassert universal values | Higher education has a key role to play in countering the spread of populism and nationalism and tackling global challenges such as poverty and climate change, by reasserting universal values of human dignity and the value of science and research, UNESCO’s education chief, Stefania Giannini, said last week.
December 14, 2018
News Items from the Week of December 14, 2018
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The Trump administration tried to save a U.S. university by playing nice with an autocrat. It failed. | In an interview this week at the U.S. Embassy, [Ambassador] Cornstein declined to directly criticize Orban — whom he described as his “friend” — and instead blamed Soros for not cultivating better relations with the prime minister…Ultimately, he said, the conflict is little more than a grudge...
December 7, 2018
News Items from the Week of December 7, 2018
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Government sets the stage for higher tuition fees | The Kenyan government has ruled out any future increase in funding to universities, setting the stage for a sharp rise in student fees. The country’s Cabinet Secretary for Education Amina Mohamed said the government can no longer afford to increase funding to state universities and institutions, which should come up with long-term plans for br...
December 6, 2018
News Items from the Week of November 30, 2018
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Higher education can take a lead in fighting inequity | The first World Access to Higher Education Day (WAHED) is being held on 28 November. The aim of WAHED is to act as a catalyst for regional, national and global action to address inequalities in access to higher education.
The destruction of higher education today | IT WAS recently revealed how British universities are imitating the Premier...
December 5, 2018
News Items from the Week of November 23, 2018
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Universities shouldn’t be playing the global rankings game | The ranking system is based on a snapshot of institutional performance in a given year. It’s a zero-sum game: a gain by one institution is necessarily a loss by another. And as Chris Brink, a former university vice-chancellor, shows, the rankings have no scientific validity. He points out that the different ranking systems – Times Hig...
December 4, 2018
News Items from the Week of November 16, 2018
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The making of university rankings – Has anything changed? | With the academic year now in full swing, and most university rankings published – the latest being the US News and World Report’s 2019 Best Global Universities ranking on 30 October – higher education leaders around the world are looking at where they stand in comparison to their peers. Each year some universities lose ground while ot...
November 16, 2018
News Items from the Week of November 9, 2018
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How artificial intelligence and virtual reality are changing higher ed instruction | Virtual and augmented reality tools can provide students with experiences that would be otherwise too expensive or even impossible to replicate in the real world, from exploring the inside of a cell to traversing faraway planets, said D. Christopher Brooks, director of research at the Educause Center for Analys...
