The #MeToo movement has led students who experience sexual harassment at university to call for better responses from their institutions. Students are demanding a shift in the ways in which their institutions tackle reports of sexual violence and harassment, including more proactive responses, greater accountability, and transparency in the actions that are being taken. More...
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...
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...
Avec la participation d’experts en sciences du langage et en culture, ainsi que le soutien de ses partenaires, ce second volet portera sur le kibushi et la mise en place de l’Institut des Langues et des Civilisations. L’objectif des travaux envisagés est :
Ask the average Kiwi on the street about Māori words in New Zealand English, and most will tell you that more and more are being used in everyday language.But in countries where English is the majority language, boys and men tend to drop out of foreign language study as soon as it is not mandatory. As well, in a host of global countries such as Turkey, Japan, China and Hungary, researchers have found boys to be less motivated in language learning than girls. More...The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages. In doing this, it says, it wants to acknowledge that
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...
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...
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...
Ivy Tech Community College helps students tackle workforce readiness and soft skills with technology. More...
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