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A helpful quick read for anyone in the higher ed world!

At New Jersey Institute of Technology for the Creating Smart Cities conference. President Lim dropping some wisdom: running a university is like running a city. They are charged with making the interaction of users and the campus smooth and valuable. The campus is a fractal of a city.

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Admitted to the second stage On December 10, the registration for the Open Doors 2023 Olympiad closed. The overall number of participants is more than 67, 000.They registered from 190 countries and completed more than 110 000 portfolios. The results of the first stage will be announced on December 22 and will be published in the participants' accounts. On the pages dedicated to the subjects, there are also lists of participants who advanced to the second phase. In total, 9,631 individuals were granted admission to the second phase. 2023 Clinical medicine and Public health: 1,319 people admitted; vs Urbanism and Civil Engineering: 311 people admitted https://lnkd.in/efZTex7r

Every year we put together some tips for incoming graduate students who are moving to the Twin Cities for our program. What's your favorite arts- or culture-related metro area gem that you'd recommend to a new Twin Cities resident?

Last week I co-presented a talk with Prof Jan van Driel (Melbourne Graduate School of Education), "Aiming Higher: Improving Science Education in Victorian Schools." Thanks to The Royal Society of Victoria & Australian Academy of Technology & Engineering (ATSE), Alex Abela (Science Teachers Association of Victoria (STAV)) and Dr Brendan Rigby (Director Tech Schools, DET) for a great discussion. Link to the video can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gwnrKThx Key messages: How to make science more attractive to students? -      Use the curriculum flexibly, avoid 'one size fits all' -      Inspire students by providing them with choices -      Reduce amount of content, focus on big ideas to go deeper -      Shift the culture of lecturing and testing towards a culture of questioning and investigating   How to make science teaching more attractive? -      Value science teachers for their specialist expertise -      Provide teachers ‘professional space’ to develop their practice -      Let teachers focus on students and their learning and appreciation of science RMIT School of Education

Did you know that implementing retention strategies at the graduate level helps to retain and complete graduate students too?