Course decolonization ▪ Smarter ads ▪ Micro-credentials
Higher Ed
AFRICA: Courses fail to meet local skills needs, need decolonization 🔒
DENMARK: Report exposes shocking extent of sexism in academia
EGYPT: Currency devaluation hurts students and universities 🔒
EUROPE: 50% int’l professionals believe unis’ goals not clearly defined
FRANCE: Country hosted 412,000 foreign students in 2022/23, up 3%
MOROCCO: Quarter of university graduates were jobless in 2023
RUSSIA: Centralized governance, brain drain, decline in cooperation
SOUTH KOREA: Association agreement to join Horizon Europe programme
UNITED KINGDOM: 2/3 of students say unis should integrate AI tools more
UNITED STATES: Why higher ed is scared of a second Trump term
Digital marketing
ADVERTISING: The next era of digital advertising includes smarter ads
ADVERTISING: 12 important Facebook metrics to measure ad quality
SEO: 19 best tools for every use case in 2024
SOCIAL MEDIA: Threads may now have more daily users in the US than X
VIDEO: Short-form and long-form video marketing: their pros and cons
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BOOK: ‘The Rise and Fall of International Education Exchange’ in the US
LEARNING: Micro-credentials could be a threat to universities
RESEARCH: Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance
TECHNOLOGY: Synthesia’s hyperrealistic deepfakes so good they’re scary
TECHNOLOGY: Social media makes domain names increasingly irrelevant
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