Kooperationen zwischen Unis und Wirtschaft, längere Praxisphasen im Studium: Bachelor-Studenten sollen mehr Erfahrungen in Unternehmen sammeln, haben die europäischen Bildungsminister beschlossen.
Bachelor-Absolventen seien nicht fit genug für den Arbeitsmarkt, monieren Unternehmen immer wieder. Das soll sich nun ändern: Hochschulen sollen stärker mit Unternehmen zusammenarbeiten. Zudem sollen sie Studiengänge anbieten, die praxisnaher sind. Darauf haben sich die europäischen Bildungsminister auf ihrer zweitägigen Konferenz im armenischen Eriwan geeinigt. Mehr...
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Miami U disability discrimination lawsuit could have major effect
By Phil Hill. This week the US Department of Justice, citing Title II of ADA, decided to intervene in a private lawsuit filed against Miami University of Ohio regarding disability discrimination based on ed tech usage. Call this a major escalation and just ask the for-profit industry how big an effect DOJ intervention can be. More...
Collaboration Critical for System-Level Online Aggregators
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Next-Gen Institutional Management Systems: Empowering the Front Line and Evolving IT’s Role
By Vi Bergquist - EvoLLLution. Colleges invest heavily in institutional management systems. Many of the aging institutional management systemsareoverly complex and expensive to maintain. Meanwhile, the higher education environment has changed markedly. Institutions are being forced to do more with fewer resources. More...
Making Enrollment and Student Success Everyone’s Job
By Carolyn Callaghan - EvoLLLution. Changing demographics, increasing price competition, rising student debt, shrinking state funding and questions related both to graduates’ job prospects and the market relevance of certain degree programs are fundamentally changing the nature of enrollment operations at many colleges and universities. More...
Five Ways to Succeed in the Growing Adult Student Market
By Carolyn Callaghan - EvoLLLution. Spend an evening watching television or surfing the net and count the number of commercials and ads targeted to adults returning to college with a promise of personalized education, offering flexible pathways, self-paced and competency-based options, acceptance of prior learning, and everything else. More...
The Impact of Institutional Bureaucracy on International Recruitment
By William Gaskill - EvoLLLution. The international English language program marketplace was always immensely competitive, and the growth of proprietary language program providers—private companies that offer English language programming across the US and internationally—is only turning up the heat on universities. Cost and customer experience are significant differentiators in this space, and institutional bureaucracy often hampers universities when it comes to competing with proprietary providers on these issues. More...
A CIO’s Advice on Staffing in the Age of the Cloud (Part 2)
By Deborah Gelch - EvoLLLution. As I wrote about last week, the new generation of cloud-based, configurable solutions empowers a new level of ingenuity and connectivity between IT and business partners. However, just because you can do anything in the system doesn’t mean you should. More...