Sun.Jan 01, 2023

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Community engaged learning can help fix recurring issues - James Kennedy, University World News

Ray Schroeder

Increasingly, universities are being asked to prove their contribution to society. Many citizens, aided by social media, have become more overtly critical of science and the democratisation of knowledge has challenged higher education as the sole proprietors of knowledge. Just as important are doubts about the legitimacy of the university that are coming from within.

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Christopher Allmand obituary

The Guardian Higher Education

My fellow medievalist Christopher Allmand, who has died aged 86, was a historian of the hundred years war, especially during and after the reign of Henry V, to which Christopher devoted a major study in 1992. He was an important figure in a golden generation of British scholars who made a substantial contribution to the study of later medieval French history, notably Peter Lewis, Richard Vaughan, Kenneth Fowler, Michael CE Jones and Malcolm Vale.

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Edtech’s brightest are struggling to pass - Natasha Mascarenhas, Tech Crunch

Ray Schroeder

We now know that the startups that most enjoyed a pandemic-era boom are now the same startups facing difficult questions about how to navigate a not-so-looming downturn. But edtech is a sector that rose to an entirely different stratosphere in 2020 and 2021, as the demand for remote learning skyrocketed. As demand grew, so did investor appetite. The same venture capital rounds that allowed companies to expand their idea of what a total addressable market could look like, are the same tranches th

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60 Awesome Icebreakers for college students

Modern Campus

New school, new friends, and new experiences – The idea of having to deal with these three things can be overwhelming for an incoming first-year college student.