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28 juillet 2013

Is there a link between flexible access and ‘productivity’ in higher education?

By Tony Bates. This is the third in a series of posts about ways in which learning technologies and online learning could improve educational productivity in higher education. The first two posts were:

In response to my first post on this topic, Stephen Downes commented. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

What does the university of the future look like?

By David Evans. Conference organized by U of A brought leaders together to seek answers. “These things always start with budget cuts, don’t they?” Baroness Diana Warwick said with a wry, not-quite-cynical smile over a cup of tea in the restaurant of an Ottawa hotel. She was starting an explanation of how tuition fees of more than $15,000 a year became the poster child for change in higher education in a country once known as the birthplace of the welfare state, and still famously associated with the origins of the modern university. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

SIAST sees boom in international students

By Jonathan Charlton. About five years ago, SIAST had just 30 international students across its four campuses.
Last year, it had 194.
Now, the college conservatively projects teaching around 300 international students next year, and double that number within two years.
"That's ridiculous growth," said Jason Mazzei, manager of international education.
Hosting international students is new for the college, he said. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

UW had no business being in Dubai

By Luisa D'Amato. Don't be fooled by Dubai. Yes, the United Arab Emirates city has flashy shopping malls, a dynamic economy, and the world's tallest skyscraper. But at its core, the place is still cruelly medieval. And University of Waterloo is fortunate to have stepped away from it. Eager to establish an international presence, the university opened a campus there in 2009, to teach undergraduate math and engineering courses. Three years later, with student enrolment far below expectations, the board of governors voted to close it. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

Humanities are not in decline in Canada. Math is

By Simona Chiose. Canadian universities often complain that the problems of the United States are unfairly tagged onto our institutions even though this country does not share many of the issues – student debt, for example – across the border. Here is another interesting difference. If a new number-crunching exercise is correct, female students in Canada follow a more “traditional” gender route in their education. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

Incredible promotion tool: student and postdoc outcomes

By David Kent. ast month, I found the best “come to my lab” sales pitch. After my jaw was set back into place at the numbers, I soon realized the broader implications of such a web page and its power as a general tool for academics. It takes virtually no effort to create and is something that every academic could (and should!) do. In fact, it is one of few things in this world that costs no money, takes no time, and could single-handedly alter the lives of a vast number of current and future trainees. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

The PhD Placement Project

By Jonathan Thon. Last week Dave wrote a post on how universities can begin keeping track of graduate student and postdoctoral fellow outcomes. With blogs such as “100 reasons not to go to graduate school” popping up online, as well as many articles increasingly critical of the state of higher education, it warrants that prospective students think long and hard about pursuing a career in academia. It is therefore imperative that accurate and unbiased information be available for each stage of academic career advancement for every field. One solution with which I wholly agree is that academics publicly disclose the career progression of their former trainees online, and pursuant to this theme I wanted to make our readers aware of a fact-finding survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education titled the Ph.D. Placement Project. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

War of attrition – Asking why PhD students leave

By Melonie Fullick. The Times Higher Ed in the UK had a hit this past week, regarding the issue of doctoral supervision, with an article by Tara Brabazon titled “10 truths a PhD supervisor will never tell you”. Worth noting alongside that one is a recent article by Leonard Cassuto that appeared in the USA’s Chronicle of Higher Education, regarding doctoral attrition, which has long been notoriously high (at least in the United States – an average of around 40-50 percent). Attrition rates in Canada are, as far as I know, not generally available though some numbers from eight of the “U-15″ were published in this article from Margin Notes blog (and a longer discussion of completion rates and times to completion is here). Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

Why are you publishing?

By Jo VanEvery. Everyone knows that you have to publish. And yet, many academics struggle. Even if you don’t struggle with the actual writing, you may find it hard to submit your work. Sometimes your fears about submitting lead you to publish in not quite the right places, affecting your ability to secure a tenure-track job, a grant, or a promotion. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

The value of a degree earned in Canada vs. one earned abroad

By Léo Charbonneau. Statistics Canada’s recent release of education data from the 2011 National Household Survey had many journalists, public policy analysts and others scrambling to interpret how the country is doing in this important area. Among the key findings: women are earning degrees in ever greater numbers, including in the STEM disciplines, while most apprenticeships are still held by men. Read more...

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