How to be a good mentor and mentee
Contributors from across the globe offer their advice on how to make these critical relationships work for everyone involved
Will the promise of lifelong learning – to extend access to higher education to more people while at the same time creating a highly skilled and relevant workforce – ever be realized? On the whole, university systems remain set up to educate 18-year-olds studying full-time degrees. And how many working-age adults are really able to take time off to go back to study and to take on more debt?
David Latchman, vice chancellor at Birkbeck, University of London, is optimistic that universities and the public have woken up to the importance of lifelong learning. In this interview, we talk about why he thinks England’s Lifelong Loan Entitlement program is the right one to unlock the benefits of lifelong learning, the sticking points of the policy and how employers should get on board.
Contributors from across the globe offer their advice on how to make these critical relationships work for everyone involved
Ngiare Brown is the first female and the first indigenous chancellor of James Cook University. Here she shares what she hopes to achieve during her tenure, including making higher education a place for indigenous students
Eve Riskin, dean of undergraduate education at Stevens Institute of Technology, talks about the power of mentorship, diversity in excellence and what she, as an electrical engineer and computer scientist, thinks about the emergence of generative AI
AI expert Ashok Goel is back on the podcast to help us understand the implications of ChatGPT for higher education and what will happen next
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