Sat.Aug 03, 2019 - Fri.Aug 09, 2019

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Mini-series: Building capacity: Developing the confidence to make mental health everybody’s business

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Photo credit: Pixabay, pexels, CC0 In this mini-series blog post, Dr Rosie Stenhouse, a lecturer in Nursing Studies, reflects on the challenges staff and students can face in supporting mental health difficulties… Within the UK, there is an increasing incidence of mental health problems within the adolescent population. Students entering university are therefore more likely to have existing mental health issues than in the past.

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Neg Reg 2019 Washington Update with Tom Netting | Changing Higher Ed 025

The Change Leader, Inc.

Neg Reg 2019 Washington Update Podcast with Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Tom Netting. Federal legislators and policymakers continue to try to work through policy and legislative changes that will have significant impacts on higher education. These include efforts by the U.S. Department of Education to alter rules developed during the Obama Administration.

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Racial and gender biases plague postdoc hiring

Higher Ed Connects: News

This article originally appeared in Science magazine on June 3, 2019. Bradley Miller is more likely to be hired than José Rodriguez. Zhang Wei (David) is more competent than Jamal Banks. And both Miller and Zhang are more competent and hirable than Maria Rodriguez or Shanice Banks. These postdoc job candidates are fictional. But the differences in how they’re viewed based on name alone—despite identical CVs—by a sample of professors are real.

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Ed Tech Spotlight: GoCulture

Higher Ed Connects: Ed Tech

Go Culture International (GCI) exists to provide the most reliable intercultural competency assessment tool. With a reliability score of 93% (Cronbach’s Alpa.93), GCI offers industry-leading data accuracy for global citizenship aptitude. Began as a research initiative in 1998 by leading Intercultural scholar Dr. Carley H. Dodd, the GCI assessment and coaching program spent eight years in development, followed by 13 years of testing. .

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The Do's and Don'ts of recruiting a digital design partner

Terminalfour

How do you choose the right digital design agency to transform your website? And what should you do to make a digital design project run smoothly?

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Top 8 social media updates your university cannot afford to miss this summer

Terminalfour

Here is a short and sweet round-up of the changes coming through this summer to the platforms you use most.

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