Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.nudecri.unicamp.br/@Damny/116252305478921141

The article (🇧🇷🇵🇹) from @Damny how European #governments and #universities are using #Mastodon as an alternative to #socialmedia like Twitter/X to reduce dependence on Big Tech.

It clearly shows how this shift supports greater control over data and communication as part of a broader push for digital sovereignty in Europe.

A very well-written piece that thoughtfully presents multiple perspectives (also mine 😬) while clarifying the goals, means, and necessary conditions behind this transition‼️

ABC Feeds 7h ago

Country kids face battle to get to university amid cost-of-living crisis
By Anita Ward, Matt Stephens, and Jackson Byrne

Pursuing higher education is difficult for regional students who uproot their lives, with advocates calling for support to level the playing field.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-19/regional-metro-higher-education-divide-cost-of-living-crisis/106457504

#Education #HigherEducation #RegionalCommunities #CostofLiving #Universities #RentalHousing #DiversityEquityandInclusion #AnitaWard #MattStephens # #JacksonByrne

Country kids face battle to get to university amid cost-of-living crisis

Pursuing higher education is difficult for regional students who uproot their lives, with advocates calling for support to level the playing field.

Bruce Mirken 9h ago

In #Florida #Universities, faculty members fight #censorship. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/florida-colleges-push-back-race-gender-restrictions

Florida professors quietly defy restrictions on race and gender: ‘This is how authoritarianism works’

Sociology faculty are refusing to alter syllabi, even as state targets how race, gender and inequality are taught

The Guardian

The Daily Perspective 18h ago

The Debt Relief Paradox: Why Wiping $16bn in Student Loans Masks Universities' Real Crisis

#AusEducation #Universities #UniversityFunding #HigherEd #AusNews #AIGenerated

https://thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-18-the-debt-relief-paradox-why-wiping-16bn-in-student-loans-masks-universities-real-dc200d85

The Debt Relief Paradox: Why Wiping $16bn in Student Loans Masks Universities' Real Crisis

Australia's universities are collapsing financially while the government wiped $16bn in student debt. Federal funding is at historic lows and international student caps deepen the crisis.

The Daily Perspective

quackademic 1d ago

Trashing the common good: how neoliberal ideology forked tertiary education* while generating huge salaries for those who enabled it.

*See also health care, schools, income support, disability & employment services. Oh, and water, electricity & gas supply. And housing.

#universities #Australia #neoliberalism #CommonGood #profit

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/australias-universities-have-found-themselves-in-crisis-but-it-has-been-decades-in-the-making?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Australia’s universities have found themselves in crisis. But it has been decades in the making

Rather than a set of teaching and learning relationships, universities have become a bunch of metrics to be gamed. Unwinding these systems will take effort

The Guardian

The Japan Times 1d ago

Jobs had been informally offered to 92% of employment-seeking university students in Japan scheduled to graduate this month as of Feb. 1, the labor and education ministries have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/03/17/economy/job-hunting-university-students-offers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #jobs #jobhunting #universities #students

92% of job-seeking university students held offers as of Feb. 1, data shows

The rate at which the students secured job offers remained high due to labor shortages, though it fell from a year earlier in the first decline in five years.

The Japan Times

Opinion | The Guardian US 1d ago

There are key questions about how well the meningitis vaccine will work - but still there is no need to panic | Devi Sridhar https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/uk-meningitis-vaccine-panic-public-health #Meningitis #VaccinesAndImmunisation #Kent #Health #UkNews #Students #Universities #Society #Nhs #England

Meningitis is back – and here is why

After two deaths, it’s right to be concerned and to discuss investment in public health. But our system is good and it’s working, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

The Guardian

Ⓐ Consciousness Revolutions 🏴1d ago

@CornellonFire Meditation action at Cornell: imagine a university degree that is fossil-free. Imagine, resolve, act.

https://www.cornellonfire.org/actionsevents/meditation-action-3-20-2026

#climate #climatecrisis #nvda #action #activism #cornell #highered #universities #ithaca

Meditation Action — Cornell on Fire

Get enlightened at an unusual meditation for a fossil-free degree. Super exclusive, but you’re invited! Join a contemplative satire of Cornell’s morally reprehensible ties to fossil-fuel funding and call for Cornell’s dissociation from corrupting fossil-fuel money in research, donations, and retirem

Cornell on Fire

Emeritus Prof Christopher May 1d ago

A simple prediction:

Use of AI by university students has already seen a return of focus on exams as the key way of testing student abilities & learning;

for courses that include projects, long-form research reports or dissertations, we will now see the expansion of the use of the in-person verbal examination.

While this has always been used for PhDs, the use will now likely reach down into assessment of any undergraduate long-form work, expanding staff work-loads (again).

#universities #AI

Leon Furze Apr 28, 2023

The AI Assessment Scale: From no AI to full AI

AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT have kicked the hornet's nest in education. From articles declaring the "end of everything" (writing, the English classroom, the entire education system...) to claims that AI will revolutionise education, we've seen the full spectrum of hype. What we're yet to see much of, however, are practical solutions for dealing with these new technologies. I'm a PhD student, studying AI in education. I'm also a former secondary school teacher, Director of Learning and […]

https://leonfurze.com/2023/04/29/the-ai-assessment-scale-from-no-ai-to-full-ai/