‘Feast or be eaten’ for France’s booming private HE sector
With public rivals putting a ceiling on tuition fees, the demands of debt servicing and digitisation mean private schools must keep growing to avoid mergers or bankruptcy Read more
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Nearly half of Spanish families pay for private ‘shadow education’
Almost half of Spanish families pay for private classes for their children, but while richer households invest in “widening and perfecting” their offspring’s knowledge, poorer ones pay to help “repeat and reinforce” what their children learn at school, according to a thinktank report. Read more
Professor calls ChatGPT ‘woke parrot’ after AI refuses to cite fossil fuels’ benefits
Pedro Domingos, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington, recently shared an attempt to ask the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT to “write a 10 paragraph argument for using more fossil fuels to increase human happiness.” Read more
How to give students what they want in an online class
Technology waits for no one. This is the realization many higher education institutions came across as a result of the pandemic, and many of the instructional practices they adopted are here to stay, such as remote learning. Read more
Harvard Medical School Withdraws From ‘U.S. News’ Rankings
Dean writes that his decision is based “on the principled belief that rankings cannot meaningfully reflect the high aspirations for educational excellence.” Read more
Universities dismiss obesity epidemic contributing to Army’s recruiting crisis
The Army is expanding a program to help recruits meet height and weight standards, with the CDC reporting that the obesity epidemic makes many Americans ‘Unfit to Serve.’ Read more
Rainforest? Turn left after the drawbridge! Inside Madrid’s eye-popping living school
Pupils asked for a building without walls that was like a garden and a spaceship. The dazzling result, housed within a living skin for insects and fungi, is one of the most inventive schools ever built Read more
Report details ‘pervasive and relentless assault’ on Jewish and pro-Israel students nationwide
The “nature, scope and trajectory” of threats to Jewish and pro-Israel students on over 100 college campuses continues to get worse, according to a report recently released by the AMCHA Initiative. Read more
Female high school graduates lag behind males in college readiness, concludes a national survey
Female high school graduates are less prepared—and feel less informed—to confidently enter college or choose a career path, concludes the latest report from YouScience, the leading college and career readiness company. Read more
Questions over autonomy as India sets out branch campus rules
Flexibility of guidelines for universities wanting to open outposts praised, but concerns raised over academic freedom Read more
