Category: Worldwide PSE

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Sept. 15th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, In the planning of our series of AI Roundtable meetings, we at HESA towers are currently hoping to host a session on student perspectives during the month of November. We’d appreciate your help in connecting us with student leaders from your institutions that would be open to share their views on how AI is impacting higher education. We’re looking for diverse perspectives, including voices from graduate students. Let us know if you think of anyone by

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Romanian Higher Education

Romania isn’t a country that gets a lot of attention outside southeast Europe.  But it should.  And I am not just saying that because of my well-known overfondness for the country’s sausage rolls and pufuleti. In terms of economic growth, it lies only slightly behind Poland in its performance over the last 15 years, and in terms of politics it has an admirably liberal president in Klaus Iohannis and a political culture which is remarkably calm compared to neighbours like

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Sept. 8th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, I hope that the first week back on campus was a good one.  Earlier in August, we, at HESA towers, sent a survey to provosts and VPAs to get a better sense of where institutions were at with respect to building policies and guidelines regarding AI. (We’re still collecting answers, so if you had forgotten about it and it’s been lying around in your email box, you can still get to it.) From the early answers

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Selective Schools and Holistic Admissions

Hi Everyone. I’m Alex Usher and welcome to the World of Higher Education podcast. This is our first pod back from summer break. And although it’s back to school time for the entering class of 2023, it’s also when final year secondary school students in North America have to start thinking about the process of applying for fall 2024. Even though the next class is a year away, the recruitment, application and admissions cycle is already in high gear. In most of the

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Back to School, September 2023

Good morning, and welcome back for another year.  I’m pretty excited for the next few months.  Let me take you through how things are going to go, both in Canadian postsecondary education and here on the blog. In an ideal world, the next few months would lead to an all-out push on new investments in scientific research.  The buying power of national investments in research – which were still pretty good as recently as 15 years ago – are now

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