We lost the argument about having a set of equal institutions 800 years ago when Oxford was founded, for Oxford and Cambridge spent centuries discouraging the establishment of other universities. More...
Is your institution’s culture a ‘network of mutual non-aggression treaties’?
I’m an outsider. As neither an academic nor in HE administration, I have no right to interfere. But as an outsider, and one who has worked closely with many academic teams, perhaps I can act as an observer. If so, may I offer an observation about the culture I have often experienced at universities: a culture I describe as a ‘network of mutual non-aggression treaties’. More...
Les langues mahoraises : tables rondes thématiques sur le Kibushi
- d’arrêter officiellement une graphie homogénéisée et consensuelle du kibushi
- de permettre, d’ici la fin du premier trimestre début 2019, l’adoption d’une délibération sur la graphie du kibushi par l’assemblée départementale,
- de faciliter ultérieurement la vulgarisation, l'appropriation de ces graphies, par les institutions, administrations, collectivités et le milieu professionnel du privé
- d’aider le territoire de Mayotte à franchir un pas important dans la préservation de sa Culture, au travers des échanges attendus, mais aussi de la création de l’Institut des Langues et des Civilisations. Plus...
Five ways indigenous languages can be championed for learners
languages play a crucial role in the daily lives of people…
Indigenous languages tend to be spoken by politically marginalised groups whose nations were historically colonised and their languages sidelined in favour of the colonisers’.
There are over 7,000 known living languages; about one third of them are in Africa. Most African children grow up in multilingual environments, and are often familiar with more than one language before they enter school. More...
Traditional masculinity may keep English-speaking men from studying new languages
Māori loanwords in NZ English are less about meaning, more about identity
This increase in borrowing goes against observations in other language examples. Typically, most borrowing tends to happen from the dominant language to the minority or indigenous language. However, it is quite astounding to find a situation where the words of an endangered language (Māori) are productively adopted by a linguistic giant (English), and perhaps equally surprising to find the trend remains positively increasing more than two centuries after initial contact. More...
EEP 2019 Will Be Live Audiostreamed
By Michael Feldstein. Interest in the Empirical Educator Summit (EEP) has been off the charts. We want and intend to include everybody, but only when we can include people in a way that is useful to them. So we are being intentional about the pace and ways in which we are growing. More...
Could higher-ed bootcamps disrupt the industry?
Tech bootcamps have skyrocketed in popularity due to their focus on work-aligned skills–but now, this model for higher-ed bootcamps has the potential to expand beyond the programming industry and upend higher education. More...
Here’s how to help students hone soft skills
Ivy Tech Community College helps students tackle workforce readiness and soft skills with technology. More...
It’s time for social-media recruitment
TERMINALFOUR’s 2018 Global Higher Education Digital Marketing & Web Survey examines digital marketing, web, and social-media trends, along with their perceived effectiveness in engagement and student recruitment. More...