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THE Campus: Making the case for better faculty training

In this show we're discussing the elephant in the classroom: the big gap in basic pedagogical knowledge among academic faculty. How should instructional designers work with faculty? And how can universities encourage superstar researchers to also be excellent teachers?

Bringing in their expert opinions are: Brian Schmidt, a Nobel Laureate in Physics and vice-chancellor and president of the Australian National University; and Alexandra Mihai, a learning designer with over a decade of experience in European HE.

Sara Custer, THE's associate editor, curation and Miranda Prynne, content curator for THE campus are the hosts.  

 

THE Campus: Caring for staff and student well-being during the pandemic

What can university leaders and academics do to take care of themselves and their campus communities during the Covid-19 crisis? What role does kindness and compassion play in university leadership?

Join THE's Sara Custer and Miranda Prynne as they discuss these questions with Thuy Thi Nguyen, president of Foothill College and June Gruber, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado and director of the Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Laboratory. 

Explore the resources in the THE Campus spotlight "Helping staff and students avoid burnout"

 

THE Podcast: Long-haul community engagement

When it comes to community integration, is your institution in it for the long haul? That’s Johns Hopkins University's intention with its Live Near Your Work scheme. The nearly 12-year-old programme provides grants to employees to buy homes in deprived neighbourhoods around east Baltimore. 

According to Alicia Wilson vice-president for economic development at Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System, the success of an organisation is boosted by the health of its community. 

“We value our stake here but we also want the folks who work with us to benefit from being in this city and we’re willing to put dollars behind that,” said Ms. Wilson. 

She also gives tips for how institutions that might not have Johns Hopkins' resources can anchor themselves in their local communities. 

THE podcast: After the election

Boris Johnson soared to victory with a landslide win in the General Election, putting Brexit and the Conservatives’ vision for science and research very much back on the agenda. But what does a now inevitable Brexit mean for universities and those working in higher education, and has the election highlighted a graduate, non-graduate split among voters?  THE deputy news editor John Morgan and THE data editor Simon Baker speak to Naomi Firsht about the election results and discuss what the future holds for HE under Boris Johnson’s government.

Read more: 

Tory election victory sets scene for UK research funding battle

Tory campus free speech bill would ‘stoke new culture war’

Split between graduate, non-graduate voters has bearing on universities

UK universities face up to Brexit after Tory election win

THE podcast: General Election 2019 – students talk tactical voting, climate change and goats

Do students see this as the Brexit election or are issues like climate change and the cost of living more important – and is the promise of zero tuition fees all it’s cracked up to be? Has the drive for student voter registration worked, and what do goats have to do with it? Will there be some tactical voting on 12 December, and how will students be celebrating/commiserating as the election results roll in?

To discuss all of this and more, Naomi Firsht speaks to: Joe Vinson, commercial services officer and director of Queen Mary students’ union service; Atyab Rashid, student at King’s College London and vice-president of KCL’s Liberal Democrat Society; Carol Paige, ­democracy, operations and community officer at UCL Students’ Union; and Bo Jacobs Strom, student at the London School of Economics and Political Science and volunteer with the UK Student Climate Network.

Find out more:

A student’s guide to the UK general election

UK general election 2019: where could students impact the vote?

THE podcast: General Election 2019 – can students swing seats?

Student populations can make a big difference to a constituency’s make-up, and with the 12 December election taking place during term-time, we may see the student vote having an impact on certain seats.

THE’s data editor, Simon Baker, has crunched the numbers and come up with a student impact score for each constituency. In this General Election 2019 special podcast, he explains how this works and discusses which seats might lead to some surprising results.

Read more:

UK general election 2019: where could students impact the vote?

Students risk missing out on votes as universities lag on registration

Labour support among UK students nearly halves in 18 months

THE Podcast: Is technology neutral? The ethics of AI

Two experts in AI discuss the big ethical questions about the technology that are keeping them up at night. Plus, they consider how universities can be a driving force for ethical AI development and what, if anything, can be done to develop global AI regulations. 

At the THE Live in November, Sara Custer, digital editor at Times Higher Education, sat down with Kate Devlin, senior lecturer in social and cultural artificial intelligence at King's College London and Nathan Lea, a senior research associate in clinical epidemiology at the Institute of Health Informatics at UCL. This is a recording of that panel. 

THE Podcast: General Election 2019 – what are the parties pledging for higher education?

The General Election is fast approaching and the party manifestos are finally out. Labour is promising to cut tuition fees, the Conservatives want more of a focus on science and the Liberal Democrats would rather not mention HE at all. But what are all of the parties really offering for higher education and how are they proposing to achieve their aims? 

THE’s deputy news editor, John Morgan, talks us through the main parties’ manifestos, providing an essential breakdown of what they are pledging and where they are lacking, and analyses what such promises could mean for higher education.

Read more:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/tories-may-make-universities-share-risk-low-quality-courses

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/labour-commits-ps72-billion-axeing-fees-and-reviving-grants

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/lib-dems-seek-sidestep-fees-trauma-he-review-pledge

THE Podcast: Leading with David Llewellyn

In the first episode of our series spotlighting university leaders we speak with David Llewellyn, vice-chancellor at Harper Adams University a specialist agriculture institution in the UK. 

He tells us about how coming to the role with no agricultural or academic background has influenced his leadership style of spotting talent and giving people space to expand their abilities. 

And of course with farming expected to be the sector hit hardest by the UK leaving the EU, we asked about how he is preparing the agricultural community for Brexit. 

THE Podcast: Is 'genius' a bad word?

At the recent World Academic Summit at ETH Zurich, Nobel laureate astrophysicist Brian Schmidt interviewed rising star physicist Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski about her career and the notion of "genius". 

In this interview they talk about their successes and failures and what environments need to be created to encourage genius moments more than geniuses. 

Find more coverage of the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit here https://www.timeshighereducation.com/policy/world-academic-summit