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• Why more employers are hiring workers without college degrees - Heather Olinger, Maura Barrett - Scripts News
  A growing number of employers are prioritizing skills over college degrees, opening new career paths for workers with experience and certifications. As companies struggle to fill jobs and industries evolve faster than traditional education systems can keep up, more employers are shifting toward skills-based hiring — focusing on experience, certifications, and practical abilities instead of […]
• Five design principles for meaningful online global learning - Marcia Cross, Times Higher Education
  As digital technologies transform access to both information and education, how can universities offer distinctive educational value for professional learners online? Online programmes that bring together professionals from different organisations, sectors or countries can distinctly support this sense-making process. My department does this by starting from a simple idea: online learning does not happen in isolation […]
• City Colleges sees shift from in-person to online enrollment -the Channels, Luz Elena Del Pielago, Santa Barbara City College
  The numbers show that the challenge of filling classes has extended to departments across City College. While the reasons behind the decline are not completely clear yet, the difference between online and in-person enrollment has become noticeable.Van Arsdale said that one possible factor could be for the growing use of artificial intelligence. “It’s a response […]
• Want to be a lifelong learner? Don’t go it alone - Celine Nguyen, Psyche
  The history of autodidacticism shows that learning has always been social. The right relationships open intellectual horizons. The internet is full of resources for self-directed learning: for any subject, you can easily find blog posts about essential texts, links to university syllabi, and hours of YouTube lectures. When I attempted to make use of these […]
• What Does the Credential Still Certify? Cognitive Stewardship for AI-Mediated Education - Kai Yao, AIES 2026
  Generative  AI  is  changing  a  basic  premise  of  educationalassessment:  that  submitted  work  can  reliably  evidence  thehuman  capacities  a  credential  claims  to  certify.  The  chal-lenge  is  not  simply  whether  students  use  AI,  but  what  re-mains  inferable  about  learning  when  some  cognitive  workhas been delegated to a system. This paper developscogni-tive  stewardship,  a  framework  for  AI-mediated  assessmentthat […]
• 64 Online Learning Statistics for 2026 - Toya S., National University
  Who Is Enrolling in Online Education? The typical online learner is not a recent high school graduate experimenting with digital formats. Most are what NU calls ANDers: working adults balancing careers, families, and education. This demographic shift is reshaping how institutions will deliver instruction.As of Fall 2023, approximately 54.3% of all U.S. college students took […]
• Workforce in motion: Skills and pathways to future jobs in the United States - María Jesús Ramírez, Kweilin Ellingrud, Tanguy Catlin, Diego Castresana, and Anna Kortis, McKinsey
  The US economy could create more jobs in the next decade than will be replaced through automation, but the change may require the largest and most sustained workforce transformation in US history. We estimate that roughly 11 million workers in declining occupations may need to transition to new jobs, ranging from six million to 16 […]
• The ‘AI and Future of Work’ Series — How the University is preparing students for what is next - Lidia Zur Muhlen, Cavalier Daily
  According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, college graduates of the last three years are entering a challenging job market. The unemployment rate for recent college graduates was 5.7 percent in Q1 of 2026, compared with 4.23 percent for workers overall. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, in June 2019, the unemployment rate for recent […]
• New AI Framework Teaches Robots to Choose Their Own Skills and When to Use Them - Bioengineer
  One of the most stubborn problems in artificial intelligence is teaching an agent to carry out tasks that stretch far into the future, where rewards arrive rarely and the path to success is measured in hundreds of small decisions. A robot asked to stack blocks into a pyramid or open a microwave must chain together […]
• Building digital skills and career opportunities - Age UK
  At 60, Mahmoud is exploring a new career direction after spending several months unemployed. With support from Age UK Islington, he is developing his digital skills, improving his ability to search for work and exploring the possibility of becoming self-employed. He was particularly interested in digital marketing, including content creation, website development and building applications. […]
• The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind - the Guardian.org
  Women made up only about a quarter of new hires in AI roles in the last year, compared to 50% of new hires in non-AI roles, according to a recent report from LinkedIn. In executive roles, that number drops to just 13%. At the same time, LinkedIn’s research shows that women are more likely to […]
• Universities urged to build coalitions to address SDGs - Kalinga Seneviratne, University World News
  Universities should take part in growing “multi-stakeholder coalitions” in society to strengthen education for sustainable development (ESD). That was the key message of a two-hour webinar organised on 30 September by the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) of the United Nations and attended by over 150 participants from across the world, many of whom were […]
• Community knowledge belongs at the heart of higher education - Jack Layton and Sue Griffiths, University World News
  In recent years, universities in the United Kingdom have scrutinised their relationships with neighbouring communities – exploring what these should and could look like. That requires asking what it takes to undertake meaningful community engagement, how their research can contribute to local economic growth and how their facilities can be repurposed to support local health […]
• College Leaders Are Using A.I. Students Call It Hypocrisy. - Mark Arsenault and Alan Blinder, NY Times
  College professors and administrators have been busting students for cheating with artificial intelligence for several years. Now, the professors and administrators are getting in trouble, too. Dartmouth College last week announced it was investigating its provost, Santiago Schnell, after the college’s student-run newspaper found that some of his published writing appeared written by A.I. Dr. […]
• Career Prep When No One Knows What’s Next - Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed
  Cameron Sublett, senior director of innovation and incubation at FoundationCCC, which supports California’s community colleges, explained that job forecasting—with its direct implications for the postsecondary mission—has “always been a mad science,” and that AI disruption has added “so many more layers of complexity, confusion and noise.” Citing the economist David Autor, Sublett said that society […]
• Can GenAI actually help build better learning modules? - Toni Jones, et al; RMIT Australia
  Building a high-quality online learning module is a substantial undertaking that involves a range of tasks, such as writing and organising content, developing activities, sourcing multimedia, structuring pages for accessibility, and aligning it all with learning outcomes. At GAILE, we've been curious about where Gen AI might help in that process, and where it does […]
• From AGI to ASI - Tim Genewein, et al; arXiv
  After characterizing ASI, the report discusses four potential pathways from AGI to ASI: scaling AGI, AI paradigm shifts, recursive improvement, and ASI emerging from large-scale multi-agent collectives. The report then discusses possible frictions and bottlenecks along these pathways. Determining whether the impact of these frictions will be negligible or substantial raises a number of concrete […]
• How one president is creating new pathways for older students - Alcino Donadel, University Business
  The Western New Mexico University president has a personal stake in this mission. A GED graduate, Coll was a firefighter and Marine before he entered college. His work portfolio and community college certificates helped him earn his associate degree, a critical moment that propelled him into higher education leadership. “I see my own lived experience […]
• Friendship is built over time, through ordinary moments – I teach lonely college students to notice them - Justin Vaughn, the Conversation
  Many new students want close relationships, but feel anxious about initiating them and have had little practice sustaining them.I realized that my students rarely spoke to one another, and went entire semesters without learning their classmates’ names. Many students seemed unsure how to cross the few feet between them and their peers and make the […]
• Education agents are coming. Prepare now for international recruitment’s new chapter. - David King, University Business
  U.S. universities and colleges, however, have chosen to go it alone. Many build international recruitment infrastructure themselves, relying on international travel, admissions staff and direct marketing. This stance is the result of a number of factors: regulatory history, institutional caution, and a belief that their brand strength alone is sufficient. Here’s the thing. Many international […]