Tag Archives: Education

What The Best AI Use Cases In Education Have In Common(Forbes)

​In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning World Chess Champion. It was a defining cultural moment, offering proof, at scale, that machines could outperform humans in a complex domain. Nearly three decades later, AI has become far more practical and far more present. In education, institutions are experimenting with generative and agentic AI […]
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Shaping Ethical AI Leadership In Education From The Global South (Forbes)

As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes economies, labor markets, and learning systems, education has become one of the most consequential arenas of the digital age.  The central question is no longer whether AI will transform education, but whether institutions, particularly in the Global South, can shape that transformation in ways that advance equity, justice, and inclusive development.  Within this context, LinkedIn’s Top […]
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NEW GIBS article: Stepping stones across a fast-flowing river: supporting emerging scholars from merging markets by Prof Helena Bernard

Abstract International business as a field values perspectives from various contexts, but scholars from emerging markets face a number of often-unseen challenges preventing them from fully contributing to the field. This study aims to explain those challenges and what the author has done to manage them. Design/methodology/approach This is a Reflexive piece in which the […]
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Universities ready to take up generative artificial intelligence, but say guidelines are needed (SB)

As AI becomes a daily helper for research managers, institutions are awaiting EU guidelines and learning from one another. Universities are slowly adopting generative AI in their work, but in depth guidance is still missing for many institutions, with some waiting for the European Commission to set EU guidelines for safe use. AI tools are […]
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The Human Capital Index 2020 update: Human Capital in the time of COVID-19 (World Bank)

The World Bank has recently published “The Human Capital Index 2020 Update: Human Capital in the Time of COVID-19”.  This report presents an update to the Human Capital Index (HCI), using the most recent health and education data available as of 2020. It documents new evidence on trends over time in the HCI, examples of […]
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Education at a glance 2020 (OECD)

The OECD has just released “Education at a Glance”, that is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. It provides data on the structure, finances and performance of education systems across OECD countries and a number of partner economies. More than 100 charts and tables in this publication – as well […]
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Latest publication from Prof Helena Barnard on the value of a foreign PhD

Research Policy, 47(5), pp. 886-900 Abstract When seeking to improve science in emerging economies, uncertainty exists whether PhD training in an emerging economy can yield comparable results to PhD training in the developed world. Scientific achievements may vary because of excellent training at good universities, but also because excellent students select (and are selected by) […]
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Parents in these places spend the most on their children’s education

By: Alex Gray August 02, 2017 Source: https://www.weforum.org

Why disappearing jobs keep students out of college (Weforum)

By: Alison Jones June 22, 2017 Source: https://www.weforum.org

These are the world’s best executive education programmes (Weforum)

By: Laurent Ortmans November  17, 2016 Source: https://www.weforum.org