After two years very disrupted by the Covid-19 crisis, the international mobility of young people is on the rise again. Among the measures most popular with students who wish to spend part of their course abroad is Erasmus + . Why was Erasmus chosen as the tutelary figure of this program which, in 2022, celebrated its 35th anniversary? How does the […] … learn more→
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What Erasmus, patron of Erasmus, brought to the thought of education
Through role play and simulation, this course teaches strategic ways to strike business deals that do more than just make money
Title of course: “Negotiation Strategy: Fostering Collaborative Dynamics in Competitive Environments” What prompted the idea for the course? I designed this class to help undergraduate business students find the skills and confidence they need to develop solutions to better the world around them through business. Students arrive on campus with energy, ambition and an instinct that business […] … learn more→
‘May cause serious side-effects’: How medical school admissions can perpetuate inequality and reward privilege
Would-be physicians are often told that a winning medical school application requires stories about observing clinical care. Applicants’ quests to get clinical experiences — through, for example, physician shadowing, global health experiences or medical scribe work — can have harmful unintended consequences. Such activities can perpetuate inequality when they disguise privilege as merit, reinforce damaging narratives or […] … learn more→
How direct admission is changing the process of applying for college
What is direct admission? In direct admission, soon-to-be high school graduates can be accepted into a college or university without having to submit an application. This often happens during a student’s senior year of high school, but some colleges make these offers during junior year. Direct admission is one of several strategies colleges and universities use to […] … learn more→
6 of 8 Ivy Leagues will soon have women as presidents — an expert explains why this matters
Felecia Commodore, an associate professor of higher education at Old Dominion University, explains what this means for gender equity in the college presidency – and why U.S. colleges and universities still have a long way to go. Why does this matter? While women make up about 60% of undergraduate as well as master’s and doctoral students in the U.S., […] … learn more→
International students face exploitation in Canada and abroad
Up to 700 Indian international students were recently found to have allegedly arrived in Canada with fraudulent admission letters from post-secondary institutions. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada only discovered the letters were fraudulent years after some of the students graduated and had applied for work permits or permanent residence. The students have been accused of misrepresenting their […] … learn more→
Zombie projects and the ‘forever homework’ of academic life
Like many academics, I have too many things on. By ‘things’ I mean projects of all shapes and sizes, from ‘write a book on neurodiversity and the PhD’, to ‘Fix up the Bootcamp page on the ANU website’. Exhibit A: I’m going on Sabbatical in the UK from May to August. To minimise disruption to the team, […] … learn more→
ChatGPT: Student insights are necessary to help universities plan for the future
With the launch of ChatGPT to the public, post-secondary institutions are aware of the seismic impact this could have on both the business and art of education. Educators’ emotions have ranged from intrigue and excitement to panic about massive disruption. Public access to this large language model (LLM) raises important questions about teaching and learning, including the design of meaningful assessments, […] … learn more→
‘Some of them do treat you like an idiot’: what it’s like to be a casual academic
One of the priorities of the federal government’s sweeping Universities Accord is to improve employment conditions in higher education. This is long overdue. Australia’s university sector once set the standard for working conditions but sadly this is no longer the case. Now the sector is plagued by an over reliance on casual staff, stress, burnout and precarious work […] … learn more→
The National Skills Agreement needs time in the policy spotlight and it must include these 3 things
Australia continues to grapple with acute skills shortages. Businesses are struggling to find workers with the skills they need. Meanwhile, workers struggle to get jobs because of the mismatch between available training and occupations. There is currently a high-profile debate about the university sector’s role in this via the Universities Accord review process. But the role of […] … learn more→
