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3 Questions for a Retired Academic Librarian

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation In an email response to my piece “ How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? ” David Lewis took me to task for not doing the necessary research to answer the questions posed. As David spent the last 40 years working as an academic librarian and the last 20 years as a library dean, his critique carries some weight.

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Back to the Campus Says Chinese Government

Higher Education Whisperer

Greetings from the Coffee Grounds Cafe, at the Australian National University, on a wet monday morning. According to media reports, the government of China has placed restrictions on its citizens studying online at foreign universities (Australian universities welcome snap decision by China to ban online studies, The Guardian, 29 January 2023).

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UK business groups call for more foreign-language teaching in colleges

The Guardian Higher Education

Exclusive: Report reveals postcode lottery as barely half FE institutions offer some form of language teaching Business groups and language experts are calling on ministers to make linguistic skills a core part of vocational training, after research found young people are unable to study languages at large numbers of further education colleges. A report by the British Academy published on Monday, shows that despite t he importance of linguistic skills in many jobs , the ability to learn French,

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What is China's Tech Policy?

Higher Education Whisperer

Greetings from the Australian Centre on China in the World,at The Australian National University, where Rogier Creemers from Leiden University i speaking on China’s Techno-Developmental State: Achieving the Future. He began by noting there were few China tech policy watchers, despite there being plenty of Chinese government documents available to work from.

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‘We’re on permanent catch-up’: how Covid has changed young Britons’ lives

The Guardian Higher Education

Young people across the UK reflect on how the pandemic affected them – and continues to shape their futures In the next phase of the Guardian’s Covid Generation series, young people from across the UK continue to analyse how the pandemic is still affecting their lives and their plans for the future, 18 months after the end of the third national lockdown.

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Ocean Classroom: A Day in the Life Aboard Harvey Gamage

Proctor Academy

Proctor’s Winter Ocean Classroom program is in transit from St. Augustine, Florida to the Florida to Key West and the Dry Tortugas. The program brings twelve Proctor students together with seven students from the MET School in Providence, Rhode Island for a one of a kind immersion learning experience at sea. As the group continues their voyage, students reflect on the learning - both in their classes and in their daily life aboard Schooner Harvey Gamage.

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Former UK education ministers attack plan to reduce vocational qualifications

The Guardian Higher Education

Coalition fears DfE may break pledges that only small percentage of qualifications will be replaced by T-levels A coalition of former education ministers has attacked the UK government’s “disastrous” plan to scrap dozens of popular vocational qualifications and push students into taking its favoured new T-levels. David Blunkett, the former Labour education secretary , said he feared that widespread scrapping of qualifications such as BTecs from 2025 could backfire and pead to more 17 and 18-year

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‘They miss out’: soaring rents and insufficient support force more uni students in Australia to live with parents

The Guardian Higher Education

‘Generational shift’ in share accommodation as housing crisis puts young people under ‘enormous pressure’ Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast When Amelia Grace Wilson-Williams started her university degree, she didn’t imagine it would be spent bunkering down in the family home. But when the undergrad law student at the University of Technology in Sydney began hunting for rental properties in which to live alone or share with fellow students, she realised it

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Fresno Pacific University students protest program cuts, faculty layoffs - Shayla Girardin, ABC30

Ray Schroeder

Fresno Pacific University students are speaking out amid university budget cuts. To save money the college is reducing faculty and staff, which means several university programs could also be at risk. It was a protest of "Tents and Togas" at Fresno Pacific university today. Tents to protest the loss of the Sierra program, a month long summer course for students in the Sierra Nevada, and togas in opposition to the university cutting the schools philosophy major.

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36% of higher ed supervisors are looking for other work, study finds - Laura Spitalniak, Higher Ed Dive

Ray Schroeder

Over a third of higher education supervisors, 36%, are likely to look for a new job in the next year, according to a new survey from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, CUPA-HR. And only 40% said they were interested in finding employment opportunities at their current institution. Almost three-fourths of supervisors said the job expectations heaped upon them increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.