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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · 1d

Today's complex challenges call out for interdisciplinary thinking - and such courses are growing in popularity. But great interdisciplinary teaching is about much more than adding disciplines and stirring, says LSE100 co-director Jillian Terry blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · 15d

The awarding gap is not a neutral metric, says Josephine Gabi. Racially minoritised students are structurally marginalised by the metrics used to assess their success – but shifting from gap-thinking to debt-thinking could make a difference: blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · 29d

How free are academics? Katrin Kinzelbach, principal investigator of the Academic Freedom Index, addresses the current state of academic freedom and the threats it faces in this stimulating interview with Tamas Dezso Ziegler blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

‘The biggest danger for universities comes from autocrats, wannabe autocrats, anti-scientists, and pseudoscientists’ - LSE Higher Education

In a conversation with LSE HE Blog Fellow Tamas Dezso Ziegler, Katrin Kinzelbach, principal investigator of the Academic Freedom Index, addresses the current state of academic freedom and the threats ...

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you @moesz.bsky.social

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Sep 2

Universities collect student voice through surveys but ignore it when it challenges their decisions, says Moé Suzuki. Is there another way?
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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Jul 31

Have we reached PhD saturation point? With doctoral student demand outstripping supply of academic jobs, it’s time for governments, universities, and prospective PhD students themselves to take action to avoid regret, says LSE HE Blog Fellow Huw Morris blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Jul 29

Confessions of a Luddite teacher: Anna Lukina sets out the case for edtech pessimism as she swims against the tide in a higher education environment replete with learning technology blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

An image of Raphael's 'School of Athens' altered by ChatGPT to show the characters in the image using laptops and tablets

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Jul 24

Is the lure of AI blinding universities to the power of the tools already in its pockets, Nick McIntosh asks. Perhaps higher education needs a reality check when it comes to tech
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Dr Risheka Walls shares a patient interaction with students virtually using the Microsoft HoloLens headset at Imperial College London, UK

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Jul 17

Tamas Dezso Zeigler says we must understand the gravity of government interventions in higher education in order to resist
“[government] efforts to impose a uniform ideological framework within academia."

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Big brother, ombudsman, dictator: the role of the state in fostering pluralism in the academy - LSE Higher Education

As the tension between academic freedom and governmental intervention grows, LSE HE Blog Fellow Tamas Dezso Ziegler outlines the measures governments have at their disposal to encourage heterodox voic...

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Jul 3

Has speculative fiction challenged your thinking or world view? Explore some fresh spec fic campus novel reviews in Ijeoma N Njaka's new blog post, and expand your summer reading list!

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#SpecFicSummer

Five book covers organised into a partial pyramid shape. A yellow umbrella on a beach with a blue sky lies in the background of the book covers.

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Jun 26

Chen-Ta Sung explains that the "recruitment of international students to maintain financial stability...risks reinforcing existing social inequalities. It privileges those who can afford elite global credentials" in this new blog post.

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Jun 17

How radical is your imagination? Capital R or lower-case r? From campus facility plans to humble textbooks, subverting the status quo can happen in the most unlikely places, says LSE HE Blog Fellow, Ijeoma N Njaka blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Jun 5

How do you talk to a populist? With populism on the rise, educators need to understand how to respond when populist discourse finds its way into the classroom. Edda Sant debunks three common myths about populist challenges to higher education
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Images of Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy, Brothers of Italy; Hugo Chávez, former president of Venezuela, United Socialist Party of Venezuela; Donald Trump, 45th and current President of the United States, Republican Party; Alexis Tsipras, former Prime Minister of Greece, Syriza; Mamata Banerjee, eighth and current Chief Minister of West Bengal, All India Trinamool Congress - in front of a university building

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · May 27

Is AI to the 2020s what calculators were to the 1980s? Listen to Maurice Chiodo (@cser.bsky.social) draw a comparison between these two tools in Episode 1 of our podcast on the ethics of AI in teaching.

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · May 21

In Episode 2 of our podcast on the ethical use of AI in teaching, Claire Gordon, Maha Bali, Maurice Chiodo, and Emma McCoy debate the issues they encounter integrating AI – consistency, AI skills development among faculty, disciplinary identities and values. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · May 20

In our latest podcast, Claire Gordon discusses the ethical use of AI in teaching, learning and assessment with @mahabali.bsky.social, Maurice Chiodo, and Emma McCoy. What responsibility do educators have to their students, the institutions, and themselves?
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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · May 6

Meet the LSE HE Blog Fellows – four academics from across globe who will be sharing their insights over the course of 2025, covering the internationalisation of HE in Asia, HE policy, radical imagination in the US, and heterodox perspectives in authoritarian times
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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Apr 7

As we consider approaches that range from a warm embrace to cautious acceptance to resistance to AI in higher education at the #LSEPKUAI conference, we need to recentre our humanity and question the tech inevitability narrative, says @mahabali.bsky.social.

A decorative box graphic enclosing 3 bullet-pointed statements: "Focus on caution and care. Humans are losing their human side. Deconstruct the tech inevitability narrative." An animation of a Rubik's cube is on the corner of the box graphic.

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Apr 3

How do you approach accountability and transparency when using AI in your academic practice? @mahabali.bsky.social brings together a range of voices to contribute to a more nuanced ethics of AI in education. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

Graphic showing a frame with a red and white Rubik's cube in one corner and inside the frame are four bullet points with the words: 'Build trust through transparency'; 'Model transparency to avoid eroding trust'; 'Resist adversarial pedagogies' and 'Transparency is necessary but not sufficient for accountability'

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Mar 28

How do you start a new university and create an appealing brand when nobody knows who you are? Bryan Penprase and Noah Pickus consider some of the tricky issues founders face, focusing on new unis from Minerva and NYU Abu Dhabi to Ashesi University in Ghana blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Mar 20

What is the impact of authoritarian regimes on universities in Türkiye, Hungary, and the US? @seckinsertdemir.bsky.social, Tamas Dezso Ziegler, and David Swartz discuss on our latest podcast episode. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

Left: Image of student being dragged and carried away by two police officers. Right: text fading into the image stating “The authoritarian grip on HE tightens: a podcast with academics from Hungary, Türkiye, and the US”

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Mar 4

Still time to apply (closing date 10 March)! Are you a scholar interested in drawing attention to important issues in higher education? Could you share your specialist insights with a global audience? The LSE HE Blog Fellowship could be for you. Application details: blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Feb 27

We have ruined essay writing by forgetting about it as a process and treating it as a product. It's time to rethink writing (and how we teach it) and, ironically, the challenge of AI can help, writes Alicja Syska blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

We tried to kill the essay – now let's resurrect it | LSE Higher Education

Writing teaches us how to think, so let's rethink, reframe, and reposition the essay to bring it back into the light, writes Alicja Syska

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Feb 21

How can academics use autoethnography to voice criticism of HE without falling foul of the law? Margaret Merga explains the implications for researchers, educators, and supervisors.
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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · Feb 11

Are you a scholar interested in drawing attention to important issues in higher education? Could you share your specialist insights with a global audience? The LSE HE Blog Fellowship could be for you! Application details here -
blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat... - closing date 10 March. Please share!

Apply for the LSE HE Blog Fellowship 2025 | LSE Higher Education

Are you a scholar interested in drawing attention to important issues in higher education? Could you share your specialist insights with a global audience through blog posts, podcasts and more? Our Fellowship could be for you.

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