Plus: Higher education and international student recruitment may be affected by the rise of nationalist governments.
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Indigenous ▪ TikTok ▪ Vaccination
Plus: Global ad spending could reach $1 trillion for the first time in 2023, according to WARC.
Cold War ▪ Diversity Factor ▪ Polarization
Plus: US and UK universities educated senior leaders of 1/4 of the world’s countries
Wikipedia ▪ Enslavement ▪ 11.5 billion hours
Plus: The United Nations demands an increase in global spending on education and science
Affirmative action ▪ Microcredentials ▪ Zzzuckerberg
Plus: Douglas Hofstadter reflects on what ChatGPT (wrongly) suggests was his motivation to write “Gödel, Escher, Bach”.
Indian students ▪ Privacy inspector ▪ LGBTQ+
Plus: International students want 1/3 of lectures taught online, according to the latest International Student Barometer
Free tuition ▪ Virtual learning ▪ Branding
Plus: How a British for-profit college made millions by not providing good quality education to its foreign students
Rise in working students ▪ AI tutors ▪ SciHub
Plus: 51% (51%!) of students are reconsidering their decision to study overseas, according to a report by IDP