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What Netflix’s dystopian thriller reveals about the misguided purposes, ethics and direction of elite higher education.

Published 26 February 2021 Welcome to series 2 of the Brighter Thinking Pod! In this episode, we’re discussing how teachers can help students look after their wellbeing and mental health. As well as the video and transcript below, you can listen to this and other episodes by going to the website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, or Google Podcasts. Please like, subscribe and review if you like what you hear – it really helps us to reach more teachers with our podcasts. Introductions Georgia: Hello, welcome to the Brighter Thinking Pod from Cambridge university press. I’m your host f...

  The pandemic-driven switch to remote learning alerted many faculty members to the importance of course design. In an online course, keeping students on track requires clarity and structure; it also demands that instructors think intentionally about how to motivate and engage students, prompt interaction, and assess student learning without the crutch of in-person proctoring. One can only hope that the pandemic is nearing its end, and hope, too, that the budding concern with course design will persist. So let me take this opportunity to discuss seven innovative learning- and learner-centere...

  Contrary to what many undergraduates think, a bachelor’s degree in a high demand field is not a golden ticket to career success. As my "Higher Ed Gamma" partner in crime Michael Rutter has observed, it is simply not true that vocationally aligned bachelor’s degrees, even in the sciences, will get graduates hired in their field of study. To wit … "If anything, the numbers point to an oversupply of skills, says Hal Salzman, a sociologist at Rutgers University. In a 2018 paper, he and colleagues showed that only about 60 to 70 percent of U.S. computing and engineering graduates land j...

A Travis County judge has declared that Rosa Jimenez, serving a 99-year sentence for the death of a toddler in her care in 2003, should be released from prison while she awaits a new trial that was first ordered a decade ago. At a Jan. 26 hearing, District Judge Karen Sage ordered the release on bond, saying, “I do not believe that Ms. Jimenez should spend another night in jail if it can be prevented.” Her attorneys say she could be free by the end of the week. Jimenez, an unauthorized immigrant, was 20, a mother of a one-year old daughter, and seven months pregnant when 21-month-old