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This week on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson assembles cross-national evidence showing Britain's shrinking graduate premium is a demand-side problem – and that closing courses won't fix it
But increases in young people going into HE was spread across Major, Blair/ Brown and Cameron. The drop in graduate premium is greater in the UK than other oecd countries - some with greater rates of massification suggesting a failure of the economy not an effect of massification
UK higher education student numbers fall for second year in a row | HESA
There has been a lot of talk about postdigital future classrooms, in and beyond the eponymous Special Issue published in PDSE last year. These insights have been masterfully curated and presented in a short encyclopedia entry by Ingrid Forsler :) Link in first comment
One of the cool things about organizing at a massive worksite like a university (or a hospital, or an advanced auto factory, or...) is that you get to meet people who have superpowers you do not understand in the slightest. Finished a walkthrough and a got a tour of the lasers.
What's on this month in ALDinHE. Image shows a clock face with the working cogs showing and the words Learning Development.
Here is your monthly guide to what's on in the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education this month. We look forward to seeing you at a future event. http://aldinhe.ac.uk/news/whats-on-this-month #LoveLD #LearningDevelopment #CPD #LearningDevelopers #ALDinHE
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A great paper on the state of academic publishing that is intensified by the GenAI in exploiting content and the generating slop
Are you studying for a doctorate at a UK university via a programme that is wholly or mostly online? If so, please take part in an anonymous, 10 min survey about the impacts of online doctoral study on wellbeing and share the link lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_....
The Marshall Islands Just Quietly Implemented the First National Universal Basic Income (UBI)
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Our annual Algerian Studies Master’s Dissertation Prize is now open for students at any UK university. If you get a high grade for a thesis related to #Algeria, apply & get your hard work recognised!
Deadline 30 November 2025, prizes announced January 2026, apply here: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Call for papers for the 2026 #Interdisciplinary #Learning and Teaching Conference at #Edinburgh Future Institute. Closing date for submissions is 16 Jan 2026 See interdisciplinaryuk.net/future-event...
Universities must become more open to non-academic talent: Both within management and the professoriate, the need for a wider range of experience and skills is only getting stronger, says Marcus Munafò
https://ow.ly/O8yL50X9Fjp
And so it begins.
My prediction:
1) ‘back-office efficiencies’ (aka cull of professional services and academic-related staff inc programme admin, student support, teaching/learning support / digital learning support /libraries / professional development etc)
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Strange piece on #ukhe finance. No mention of the tripling of fees by the coalition government, the removal of number caps nor the problems of focusing funding on HE rather than a coherent tertiary system
Nice trillions-dollar industry you got there. It would be a shame if anyone tested its claims empirically
Interesting summary of Skills England's latest report on priority #skills for 2030: especially that only 70% of computing graduates go on to #employment in IT. www.bcs.org/articles-opi... #employability #highered #tertiaryed #vocationaled
The AI Literacy Framework from @ec.europa.eu. @oecd-ocde.bsky.social, Code. org & others. Details key skills students need to navigate and shape a world with #AI.
The feedback survey is still open to help shape the final version.
👉See ailiteracyframework.org #AIEd #DigitalEducation
CfP for Nineteenth International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies at Rhodes. Proposals due by 16 September on the theme of human-centred AI transformations. See cgscholar.com/cg_event/eve... #DigitalEducation #elearning #AIED #higherEd #education
"By positing superintelligence as the future goal, and in repeating over and over again that it will absolutely, positively be here almost immediately, Altman and Zuckerberg can then just take it as read that what we are dealing with today is 'AI', artificial intelligence."
For the USA, it looks like students studying wholly online will outnumber on-campus students www.npr.org/2025/07/11/n... #highered #digitaleducation
Special issue of New Media & Society on digital twinning at journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8 #digitalTwinning
#Edinburgh Critical AI in Education Network event on 1 September, 1 - 4 pm, to organise for a more critical voice on AI-adoption within #HigherEd. Book a seat at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edinburgh-... #AIEd #UKHE
New #open access book on Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online available as part of the excellent Issues in Distance Education services from @aupress.bsky.social at www.aupress.ca/books/120334... #pedagogy #DigitalEducation
Yes, a techno-optimism combined with a large dollop of naivety
