Obtaining Permission to Blog With Students
Kathleen Morris, The Edublogger, 2017/08/29
I may sound like a bit of a crank when I say this, but I think it's ridiculous that you should have to seek permission in order to blog with your students. We (most of us) don't live in dictatorships. More...
Future Forward: The Next Twenty Years of Higher Education
Van Davis, Blackboard Blog, 2017/08/29
This post announces and summarizes a new publication (44 page PDF) of the same name. It's a bit of a misnomer, as it is in essence a set of thirteen interviews with academics on the future of education. More...
Although more than 80% of the country’s population is black, its academic sector has remained disproportionately white – a legacy of the apartheid era. But over the past decade, the proportion of black South African researchers has risen steadily: from 26% in 2005 to 35% in 2015, according to a study published in Higher Education last month, writes Sarah Wild for Nature. More...Alarmed by the rising trend of extremism in students, Pakistan’s top universities gathered in Islamabad to discuss their role in countering the threat of radicalisation and instilling peaceful ideology, writes Sana Jamal for Gulf News. More...Students of National Chengchi University and other universities have been protesting against universities in Taiwan setting English proficiency requirements as a threshold for graduation based on outside tests, prompting the country’s legislature to ask the Ministry of Education to come up with a comprehensive strategy to address the issue, writes George Liao for Taiwan News. More...Last week, Education Minister Janet Museveni launched four Africa Centres of Excellence or ACEs in Uganda – part of the Eastern and Southern Africa Higher Education Centres of Excellence II project that will see 24 centres in eight countries, including Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia, writes Mosel Talemwa for The Observer. More...Sexual harassment in universities is to be investigated by the National Union of Students, which is conducting the United Kingdom’s first survey of staff sexual misconduct in higher education, reports the Press Association. More...Academia is the latest industry to be shaken by widescale allegations of sexual assault in Sweden, with students and researchers raising their voices in a Facebook group aimed to draw attention to the problem, reports The Local. More...The beleaguered vice-chancellor of Bath University has made a public apology and narrowly survived a vote of no-confidence by the university’s senate, shortly after a packed meeting of staff called on her to resign over the lack of transparency in the way pay awards have been made, writes Richard Adams for The Guardian. More...In response to Beijing’s attempt to assimilate Taiwanese students while restricting the number of Chinese students studying in Taiwan, officials say the government of Taiwan has rejected academic exchange programmes that would result in an outflow of Taiwanese academics to China, writes Chung Li-hua for the Taipei Times. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
