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Category: Worldwide PSE

Long-Term OECD Data on Institutional Financing

Just for fun, I went prowling through some back issues of OECD’s Education at a Glance (as one does), to look up how public financing of tertiary education has changed over time.  OECD specifically says you shouldn’t do this, which I see as an admission that they view the data submitted by national governments as either not particularly reliable or at least compiled by different people using different definitions/standards on an annual basis.   Having looked over the data, I can

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October 10, 2023 No Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Oct. 6th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, It’s great to see the 1,4k of you that opted-in to receive these AI-focused emails. If you know someone who’d like to receive them, please send them this link. We love to see the numbers growing. Quick update – We recently added a sub-section ‘Recommendations’ under ‘News & Research’ on our AI Observatory, where we gather recommendations on how to respond to GenAI from various types of organizations, including governments, coalitions of higher education institutions, interest-based

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October 6, 2023 No Comments

Brazilian Higher Education

Hello. I’m Alex Usher and this is the World of Higher Education podcast. Brazil’s higher education system is a lot like the country itself. Big. Complicated. Riddled with inequality. And above all – still growing fast. In some ways it’s a fun-house mirror of the American system. It’s highly stratified, but the prestigious institutions for the most part are public and free rather than private and expensive. There’s a huge chunk of the system which is access-driven, but it is

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October 5, 2023 No Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Sept. 29th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, Thanks to those of you who joined us for our AI Roundtable on Pedagogy and curriculum last Tuesday, and for sharing your knowledge and experience in the chat.  It was interesting to learn more about the possibilities of GenAI in developing teaching and learning materials. From drafting learning objectives and lesson plans to building rubrics and drafting quizzes, there are clearly a lot of ways GenAI could support instructors. However, many questions remain, notably with respect

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September 29, 2023 No Comments

Higher Education in India

Hi everyone. I’m Alex Usher and this is The World of Higher Education podcast. It’s something of a cliché to think of India as a “sleeping giant” when it comes to higher education. But in some ways the term fits. India is capable of truly impressive feats of applied science and Engineering – last month’s Chandrayaan-3 moon landing, put together by the Indian Space Research Organization on an absolute pittance is perhaps the example that comes to mind most readily.

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September 28, 2023 3 Comments

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