Category: Higher education
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In an age of climate change, technological disruption and shifting social expectations, universities need to evolve. The future of higher education will be shaped by those institutions that embrace both their civic and global roles, invest in inclusive and flexible learning, and lead with purpose.
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A programme in Chile that expanded access to higher education for disadvantaged youngsters has been delivering on its objective. But it has also had unintended consequences for students’ efforts, reducing their study hours, grades and other measures of endeavour in the final year of high school.
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Economists in business, policy and academia are deploying artificial intelligence across a wide range of cognitive tasks. The most important employability skill in this age of AI is not a single fixed capability, but the broader, layered meta-competence of ‘learning to learn’ with the new tools.
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A co-ordinated effort across the UK higher education sector will make it possible to integrate artificial intelligence into economics education in a way that enriches students’ learning experience while maintaining the rigour and value that makes degrees in the subject so much in demand.
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The discipline of economics lags behind other social sciences in its engagement with issues of racial and ethnic inequality. Strengthening the scientific foundation of race-related research is essential if economists are to contribute meaningfully to public debate about racial justice.
