The author welcomed a protest by thousands of students outside the Dáil, saying they had called for the abolition of college fees, affordable student accommodation and proper funding for third-level education. They argued that the government should not put financial barriers in the way of higher and further education, and used profanity to condemn fees. https://t.co/pqQEXJRKW0 #StudentProtests #HigherEducation #AbolishFees #IE
We used to joke that mathematicians are very cheap, just paper and pencils, not much more needed. Universities should start preparing for whipping up huge computing budgets to compete for the best of them #MathHumor #HigherEducation #ComputingBudget #Nospecificcountrycodesmentioned.
State laws bring censorship to US universities, professors fear they could get in trouble for what they teach — Nearly half of college students attend institutions in states with at least one law or restriction censoring topics to discuss in the classroom https://t.co/nU9UY8Thxj #Censorship #HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #US
Canada is hiring dozens of researchers from US universities, including top research institutions such as Harvard https://t.co/LUthvRxeJy #CanadaJobs #ResearchCareers #HigherEducation #CA #US
The role of education organizations today has never been more important! https://t.co/RsyYojufbl @ChuckCascio #Educators #educationews #highereducation #TransformEducation #Schoolsofeducation @educationweek #educators #teachers #schools #principals https://t.co/ThhM4KFJLz #TransformEducation #highereducation #educators #Nospecificcountrycodescanbeidentifiedinthetweetprovided.
Strong words in @insidehighered about @UGent's letter suspending @nathancofnas: "Ghent argues that Cofnas’s criticism of Arday as “mentally disabled” and a "worthless scholar" was “an intentional and serious disturbance of the peace” that may violate “the Belgian Criminal #HigherEd #FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom #BE
I promised to give Ghent University the “benefit of the doubt” before writing a full piece about the Cofnas affair, by waiting for the temporary suspension to expire and hoping they’d come to their senses. Reliable sources now tell me that @UGent has extended @nathancofnas’s #CofnasAffair #UGent #HigherEducation #BE
Fifteen colleges, universities and university systems submitted testimony explaining how the rule, which allows international students to stay in the U.S. for only four years without an extension, is already impacting their campuses. https://t.co/hy2ddcqD1S #InternationalStudents #HigherEducation #USImmigration #US
This internal email from a tenured professor at Nathan Cofnas’ department shows not only that the “barrage” of complaints about the “negative effects on well-being” was perfectly coordinated, but that it was explicitly encouraged by rector Petra De Sutter herself. If this is https://t.co/AUwzygmP8y #HigherEducation #AcademicFreedom #FreedomOfSpeech #BE
Harvard closed its writing center and layed off the center’s longtime director for financial motives, a decision that could trigger other universities to follow suit, concluding than original writing –by extension, original thought– isn't worth the cost https://t.co/ux0NOjVZml #Harvard #WritingCenter #HigherEd #Nocountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.
UK universities face financial crisis amid collapse in international students, down 11% to 30%, that would deprive the sector of vital income and undermine its future https://t.co/MwyY3gPNKS #HigherEducation #InternationalStudents #FinancialCrisis #UK
As was inevitable, the Arday Affair is moving on from the examination of one fabulist and plagiarist to the rot that has consumed much of the higher-education sector. These clowns oversee the step from childhood to adulthood for approaching half of all young people - and pretty #HigherEd #ArdayAffair #Plagiarism #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.
As was inevitable, the Arday Affair is moving on from the examination of one fabulist and plagiarist to the rot that has consumed much of the higher-education sector. These clowns oversee the step from childhood to adulthood for approaching half of all young people - and pretty #HigherEducation #Accountability #EducationReform #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.
True. Without @nathancofnas, the fraudster Jason Arday would still have his plush Professorial Chair at @Cambridge_Uni and continue to mismanage students and disgrace his field, and everyone would still be fawning over him. The academic mob who has doggedly tried to exclude https://t.co/bmJlMY3vuM #AcademicFraud #CambridgeUni #HigherEducation #GB
Academia is either meritocratic or it isn’t. It either takes its rules seriously or it doesn’t. It is a moment to realize that higher education institutions have strayed too far from their core mission and that there really is no substitute for meritocracy https://t.co/PYw4VRMguU #meritocracy #highereducation #academia #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.
Big tech companies are poaching the best professors, educating postdocs and now founding humanities journals. Copying is flattery, but academia has a lot of thinking to do. #AcademicIntegrity #TechAndHumanities #HigherEd #Nospecificcountrycodescanbeidentifiedinthegiventweet.
Some of the leading research universities in the U.S. are admitting fewer students to their doctoral programs amid widespread concerns about federal funding cuts and uncertainty. Admissions to top PhD programs down 15% https://t.co/RhrkchLmkp #PhD #HigherEducation #GraduateAdmissions #US
The students most hurt by not requiring admission tests at universities are those the policy was thought to help—first-generation, low-income, underrepresented. Weaker students drown in material they were never prepared to learn, stronger students tune out https://t.co/r0xleKtaAj #HigherEd #CollegeAccess #EquityInEducation #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.
New op-ed for @timeshighered : universities hire for "fit": cheapest, least disruptive, easiest to slot in. But fields advance through disagreement, not consensus. Hiring should be a bet on who carries a discipline forward, not who unsettles it least. https://t.co/QE00opG7aR #HigherEd #AcademicHiring #DiversityInAcademia #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.
