Category: Worldwide PSE

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Oct. 20th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon, Next Tuesday, we’ll have the pleasure of discussing with five students from across the country to hear their perspectives on GenAI in higher education: Beatriz Moya, PhD candidate, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary Justin Saint, Chair of Computing and Academic, BCIT Student Association Ken Hilton, Vice-President Academic, University of Toronto Engineering Society Laurence Mallette-Léonard, President, Fédération étudiante collégiale du Québec Tala Abu Hayyaneh, Vice-President Academic, Students’ Association of Mount Royal University Join us on October

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Oct. 13th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon, It has now been 2 months since we launched our AI Observatory and started sending these AI-focused emails. Thanks for tagging along! We’d appreciate if you could take a couple of minutes to fill this short anonymous survey. We’d love to hear from you to gauge if it’s been helpful, and how we could better support your institution moving forward. Thank you! Fill the short survey Next Roundtable Meeting Date: Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 Time: 12h00-1h00 PM

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African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA)

When it comes to higher education, Africa is in a dilemma.  On the one hand, there are enormous pressures to expand access to higher education, ever more so since most countries introduced Universal Secondary Education twenty years ago.  On the other hand, the resources available to satisfy this demand – either public or private – are extremely limited.  What gets sacrificed?   Too often, it is universities’ research missions, where the payout is both long-term and uncertain. But that is hardly

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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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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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