It is unusual to find a football manager who has yet to kick a ball professionally or an orchestra conductor who has never played a note. But a study of those overseeing the quality of teaching at UK universities has found that they seldom have an academic background in education – with many pro vice-chancellors for education even viewing this kind of expertise as unhelpful to their jobs. According to the paper, titled “Does educational expertise matter for PVCs education? A UK study of PVCs’ educational background and skills”, published in the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, less than one…
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University of Tulsa names provost The University of Tulsa has named Janet K. Levit provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. She replaces Roger Blais, who is retiring after more than 40 years at TU. Levit is the first woman to serve as provost of Tulsa’s flagship comprehensive research university. Levit has served as the university’s vice president for strategic initiatives since January 2017. Before that, she served as the first female dean of the TU College of Law, where she continues as a professor. During the past year, she successfully structured and garnered board approval for TU’s five-year…
Rhode Island has awarded about $1.2 million in grants to give more students access to career education programs. The state’s Department of Education says the innovation and equity grants will be used to expand access for historically underserved students. Eight schools will receive about $150,000 each over two years, using existing state funding for career and technical education. Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo says this will help ensure every student is exposed to these learning opportunities. The awardees are Chariho Tech, Exeter-West Greenwich High School, Warwick Area Career and Technical Center, Rhode Island Nurses Institute charter school, the MET School, Smithfield…
One of New Zealand’s top secondary school teachers knows first-hand the power education has to change someone’s life. Tarewa Williams is the head of science at One Tree Hill College in Auckland, and recently was awarded the National Excellence in Teaching honour for his contribution to education. “I’ll preach until the cows come home that education for me is the key to opportunity,” says Tarewa. But his path to success may not have happened had it not been for his older brother Noho and the sacrifices he made for his little brother. When Tarewa was 11 years old, Noho raised…
Canada will invest $400 million over three years to provide numerous new additions and advancements to international educational programs for women living in crisis-affected areas. The funding will contribute to a collective $3.8 billion in support from the European Union, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the World Bank, the G7 allies announced Saturday in Quebec. Canada’s $400 million will be in addition to the $180 million in funding provided to the Global Partnership for Education in January 2018. The funding to support women and girls’ education is in coordination with the theme of gender equality and women empowerment, one…
“See, this is our school. You can see where the girls are.” Sixteen-year-old Mahnoz Aliyar is one of the 14,000 students of Kabul’s Sayedul Shohada school. The road leading up to the school gate is not paved and potholes full of muddy water make it difficult to navigate. Conditions are little better inside the gates. Mahnoz points to a big open field. “You see? We don’t have any classrooms, we don’t have any buildings, and we don’t have enough facilities for the girls.” Some classes are held under makeshift tents; others are held out in the open, with nothing to…
Google is blaming “vandalism” at Wikipedia for search results that incorrectly said the ideology of the California Republican Party included “Nazism.” The results appeared in a Google information box screen-captured by Vice Media on Thursday. Google quickly removed the section on ideology. Wikipedia’s publicly available change log shows that an anonymous user added the term “Nazism” to the entry for the California GOP on May 24. The change was reversed by another editor a week later. A second, similar change on Thursday afternoon was reverted a minute later. The California GOP has formally repudiated US Senate candidate Patrick Little, who has praised Adolf Hitler…
Walmart is starting a new same-day delivery service where customers can place orders using a text message, another step in its effort to scale up its e-commerce offerings and compete with rival Amazon.com. The service, called Jetblack, allows shoppers to order items from Walmart.com and even websites of rival retailers. It is a part of Walmart’s internal start-up incubator, Store No. 8. Jetblack has been launched in parts of New York City, with plans to roll it out to the rest of the United States over time. “The goal is to think about game-changing technologies that will change the way people shop,”…
Social media sites’ responses to the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal and new European privacy regulations have given users much more control over who can access their data, and for what purposes. To me, as a social media user, these are positive developments: It’s scary to think what these platforms could do with the troves of data available about me. But as a researcher, increased restrictions on data sharing worry me. I am among the many scholars who depend on data from social media to gain insights into people’s actions. In a rush to protect individuals’ privacy, I worry that an unintended casualty could be knowledge about human nature. My…
The next entry in the massively popular Assassin’s Creedfranchise has been revealed by Ubisoft: it’s called Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. The announcement was made via the game’s official Twitter account, as part of a five-second clip that ended with the logo and the words: “See you at E3.” The reveal video for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey shows one character kicking someone off the edge of a cliff, which is most likely a reference to the famous scene from Zack Snyder’s historical fantasy war film 300, where the Spartans kicked the Persian messengers into a well when they demanded a token of submission to a new…