(1 May 2025) Two and half years after ChatGPT’s commercial release, the higher education community is still coming to terms with how generative AI technology is impacting teaching, learning, and research. Universities, publishers, and other stakeholders in and around higher education have been obliged to react quickly, creating task forces, new guidelines and policies, and other…
(25 Mar 2025) Taiwanese universities this year canceled 86 programs, Ministry of Education data showed, with educators attributing the closures to the nation’s low birthrate as well as shifting trends. Fifty-three of the shuttered programs were part-time postgraduate degree programs, about 62 percent of the total, the most in the past five years, the data…
Higher education institutions are uniquely positioned to evaluate AI ethics and explore safeguards to promote responsible use at colleges and universities. (18 Mar 2025) When it comes to the ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence, colleges and universities are out in front. Many schools already look to AI to support teaching, learning, research, back-office functions…
(5 Feb 2025) Abstract: The paper presents the most comprehensive and large-scale global study to date on how higher education students perceived the use of ChatGPT in early 2024. With a sample of 23,218 students from 109 countries and territories, the study reveals that students primarily used ChatGPT for brainstorming, summarizing texts, and finding…
(5 Feb 2025) On the last day of 2024, Vietnam’s prime minister approved a new Education Strategy for 2030, with a vision for 2045 through Decision No 1075/QD-TTg. In higher education, the strategy sets several targets for 2030 in terms of accessibility, quality, research and internationalisation. In summary, these targets include: • Accessibility: At least…
(19 Dec 2024) In 2023, much of the conversation about AI centered around academic integrity and fears that students would use AI as another cheating tool. In 2024, more universities started thinking about adopting these tools, though an Inside Higher Ed survey of chief technology officers showed that just 9 percent said they believed higher education is prepared for AI’s rise. …
(22 Nov 2024) China will further expand its Double First-Class initiative to develop world-class universities and excellence in specific academic disciplines on par with the best in the world, Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng told a recent meeting of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s legislature. The new phase of the initiative will include…
(5 Sep 2024) In the first half of 2024, institutions of higher education in the United States closed permanently at the rate of one per week, according to one estimate, with little sign of slowing down. Where the author lives in Pennsylvania, eight colleges have closed, consolidated, or announced plans to do so since January 2024…
(21 Aug 2024) Japanese universities are at a critical juncture as the rapid fall in the number of children nationwide has sparked discussions on the need for consolidation, downsizing, or potential closures. A task force of the Central Council for Education, which advises the education minister, is currently deliberating the future of universities in response…
(20 Mar 2024) Elsevier today launches ‘View from the top: academic leaders’ and funders’ insights on the challenges ahead’, a comprehensive report that investigates the complex issues academic leaders and funders face and their preparedness to tackle them. The report also explores the strategies senior leaders are developing to leverage the opportunities that will ensure long-term success for their…