The Fulbright Scholar Program was the brainchild of Senator J. William Fulbright who, based on his experiences in the Second World War, proposed a bilateral international exchange programme for US and foreign scholars. Ambitious in its aspirations, the Fulbright Program was conceived as one of the best ways to build a more peaceful world and […] … learn more→
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What would a post-Covid-19 Fulbright Scholar Program look like?
The four questions facing university leaders during the Covid-19 crisis
With continued uncertainty about the trajectory of Covid-19, there are four basic questions facing higher education leadership teams as they plan for the next academic year: will we open? If we do, who will come? How will we be financially? And how long will this last? Will we be open? Ideally, yes. But what “open” […] … learn more→
How to score an internship during the COVID-19 pandemic
1. Create your own virtual internships While a poll of 283 employers recruiting on college campuses found that 16% have revoked internship offers, the poll also found that nearly 40% of employers have moved to a virtual internship program. Although employers moving online means there is no office to go to anymore, this can open up […] … learn more→
5 ways parents can support their college-age children who’ve been forced to return home due to COVID-19
1. Empathize Whatever feelings of grief and fear are affecting you are also affecting your college students. Put yourself in their shoes – they are probably under just as much stress, if not more, as they try to complete the semester in unexpected ways. Also, many students might be questioning their decisions to go to college in […] … learn more→
Student feedback should change forever after Covid-19
Providing swift and useful feedback to students was a major challenge for academics long before Covid-19 upended higher education across the world. But the pivot to online teaching and assessment in recent months has underlined just how difficult this vital, but time-consuming, task has become. So is it time to reconsider the paradigm of teacher-student […] … learn more→
Australian universities could lose $19 billion in the next 3 years. Our economy will suffer with them
The university sector faces cumulative losses of up to A$19 billion over the next three years due to lost international student revenue. Modelling from the Mitchell Institute shows the next big hit will come mid-year when $2 billion in annual tuition fees is wiped from the sector as international students are unable to travel to Australia to […] … learn more→
Is student course evaluation actually useful?
‘I am always curious as to how students might react to what I have been trying to do’ I was somewhat sceptical when student feedback forms were first introduced, back in the Jurassic days before email. Not many students could be bothered to collect a physical form and fill it in, and some of those […] … learn more→
Students fight pandemic – and get real-world experience – by using 3D printers to make face shields
When high school teachers in Camdenton, Missouri, read about how personal protective equipment for health care workers was in short supply due to the COVID-19 outbreak – and how anyone with a 3D printer could help fill the void – they sprung into action. The educators asked their fellow teachers at Camdenton Middle School, which had already secured 3D […] … learn more→
Are we all part time now?
Being a part-time doctoral researcher is hard. Part-timers are generally already in work, professionals, “mature”, doing the doctorate to upgrade quals and/or further an interest. There’s a lot of part-time in my field of education, and in other areas like law, nursing, social work, business. Part-timers often self-fund. Getting the doctorate done part-time generally takes […] … learn more→
Students without access to distance education: the pandemic reveals great inequalities
Given the unstoppable advance of COVID-19 and its worldwide expansion, one of the first measures fell directly on the classrooms. From one day to the next, the approximately 10 million students in Spain, according to data from the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training , stayed at home. And along with that educational lock, the first doubts arose, […] … learn more→
