Higher Education Whisperer
MARCH 22, 2025
Vocational Degrees were added to the Australian Qualifications Framework on 17 February 2025. These are at the same level as a university bachelor's degree (AQF Level 7), but deliver by Vocational Education institutions and with an emphasis on work sills, including those gained via an apprenticeship. It is not clear if this signals a Dedawkinsation of Australian higher education.
Higher Education Inquirer
MARCH 22, 2025
The Higher Education Inquirer has been ranked 14th in Feed Spot's 90 best higher education blogs , just behind a number of larger name brand blogs, including Higher Ed Dive, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Inside Higher Education, and Times Higher Education. While we appreciate the recognition, we consider HEI a different animal , creating content for higher education students, student loan debtors, and higher education workers that cannot be found anywhere else.
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Higher Education Whisperer
MARCH 22, 2025
I booked for EduTech Asia 2025 in Singapore 5 to 6 November, but then realised there is another conference much closer to home: EduTech_Au in Sydney 11 & 12 June. Last year at the Singapore event Professor Angela Lee from Sunway University Malaysia, and I talked about AI and education in a "silent disco" fireside chat. I don't know if Sydney is having equivalent activities.
Higher Education Inquirer
MARCH 22, 2025
On February 4, Nick Graetz joined the University of Michigan's Stone Center to present "Individualizing Climate Risk: Credit Score Penalties in the Home Insurance Market." Nick Graetz is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation. He is also a Fellow at the Climate and Community Institute, a progressive climate policy think tank developing research on the climate and inequality nexus.
The Guardian Higher Education
MARCH 22, 2025
Institutions must resist thuggish bullying. There is no satisfying Trump. He will move the goalposts again and again Since early 2024, Ive been running a journalism ethics center at Columbia University. So perhaps its no surprise that I see the universitys capitulation to Trump both in terms of journalism and ethics. Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading.
Higher Education Inquirer
MARCH 22, 2025
Ovidia Molina, president of the Texas State Teachers Association, says Donald Trump wants to close the Department of Education in order to privatise education in the United States.
Higher Education Inquirer
MARCH 22, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday instructing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to start dismantling her agency, although it cannot be formally shut down without congressional approval. Since returning to office in January, Trump has already slashed the Education Departments workforce in half and cut $600 million in grants.
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