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22 décembre 2013

How about dropping the term MOOCs?

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Nic Mitchell. Higher education is still grappling with how to determine a successful outcome from the explosion of interest in massive open online courses – MOOCs – this month’s conference of The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education heard. One international higher education expert said the generic term MOOC was part of the problem. Read more...
22 décembre 2013

Affordability is the key to expanding international HE

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Nic Mitchell. Huge new markets for international students are opening up in Asia and the Middle East as parents search for affordable, quality higher education for their offspring and question the wisdom of sending them to Western universities for three of four years of study.
That is the view of Ashwin Assomull, a partner with Parthenon Group’s international education practice, who has worked with government ministers and foundations in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and India. Read more...
22 décembre 2013

Higher cost no guarantee of higher education quality

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Nic Mitchell. The former education advisor to Tony Blair's Labour administration told an international higher education conference in London that higher prices for a university degree should not be seen as any guarantee that students were getting better quality education.
Sir Michael Barber, co-author of the far-reaching report An Avalanche is Coming: Higher education and the revolution ahead, was speaking at the opening of a conference on “The International Higher Education Revolution: Impacts on mobility, qualifications, networks”, staged in London by The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, or OBHE, from 11-12 December. Read more...
22 décembre 2013

Productivity Commission calls for overhaul of education

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Jan Petter Myklebust. A major investigation by Denmark’s high-level Productivity Commission has proposed an overhaul of higher education funding, the introduction of tuition fees for students, quality improvements and degrees of greater relevance to the labour market. Universities are prepared to constructively debate the recommendations but want a “more thorough analysis”. Read more...
22 décembre 2013

Concern over abolishing the student numbers cap

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Peta Lee. The British government’s announcement on 5 December that the cap on student numbers in higher education would be abolished, has had a lukewarm response from the influential Higher Education Policy Institute, or HEPI.
The institute said last week that although the abolition would extend opportunities for more people to benefit from higher education, it was concerned about “cost implications that cannot be sustained in anything other than the short-term; and so any benefits may be short-lived”. Read more...
22 décembre 2013

Employers to monitor efficiency in universities

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Eugene Vorotnikov. Russia’s government plans to more actively connect employers to the activities of national universities, in accordance with a special resolution signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Employers will be involved in the process of monitoring efficiency at national universities and the formation of admission quotas for state-funded places. Read more...
22 décembre 2013

New international publishing platform

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgElsevier – the global publisher of scientific, technical and medical journals – has joined with the China Science Publishing & Media company to set up an international publishing platform for English-language journals. Elsevier CEO Ron Mobed said the new platform would bring “the expanding wealth of research originating from China to the world”. Read more...
22 décembre 2013

Efficiency key to HE funding in Europe today – Report

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Alan Osborn. An interim report from the European University Association, or EUA, on the pattern of public funding for universities has highlighted how the character of higher education funding is changing – largely but not entirely as a result of economic pressures facing governments. The key to getting adequate funds these days is efficiency, says the report. Read more...
22 décembre 2013

World-Herald Editorial: College costs pose a challenge

New numbers about college costs and student debt provide a sobering reminder of the importance of planning for college and informing students about the realities of those costs. The numbers also provide a caution for college leaders to redouble efforts to hold down costs. The average student debt of a graduating college senior in 2008 was $23,450, the Institute for College Access & Success says in a new report that looks at public and private nonprofit four-year institutions. By 2012 the average debt load for new grads had climbed to $29,400. More...

22 décembre 2013

How A For-Profit College Created Fake Jobs To Get Taxpayer Money

businessBy Chris Kirkham. Eric Parms enrolled at an Everest College campus in the suburbs of Atlanta in large part because recruiters promised he would have little trouble securing a job.
He'd seen the for-profit school's television commercials touting its sterling rates of job placement, and he'd heard the pledges of admissions staff who assured him that the campus career services office would help him find work in his field.
But after completing a nine-month program in heating and air conditioning repair in the summer of 2011 -- graduating with straight As and $17,000 in student debt -- Parms began to doubt the veracity of the pitch. Career services set him up with a temporary contract position laying electrical wires. After less than two months, he and several other Everest graduates also working on the job were laid off and denied further help finding work, he says. More...

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