By Elizabeth D. Capaldi Phillips - EvoLLLution. The standard degree pathway creates numerous opportunities for repetition of material and is more suited to faculty and facility management than maximizing student learning outcomes. More...
By William Ryan - EvoLLLution. Roughly 600 colleges are in the design phase for a new competency-based education (CBE) program, are actively creating one or already have a program in place. That’s up from an estimated 52 institutions last year according to a recent post by Paul Fain. More...
By . Businesses have a pretty good way of knowing when to offer more or less of a good. It’s encapsulated in the equation MC = MR. More...
By . I see that one of my favourite student groups, the Ontario Undergraduate Student Association (OUSA), has come out in favour of a tuition freeze. Fair enough; not many students endorse fee increases, after all. But the stated rationale for wanting one is a bit disappointing – mixing, as it does, poor historical analysis with poor generational politics. More...
By . Among the many things that drive me completely crazy about discourse in higher education is the mythologizing about “the olden days”. You know, before “neoliberalism” came along, and research was non-instrumental, people “valued knowledge for its own sake”, classes were tiny, and managers were things that happened to other people. More...
By . Short answer: not really, no. But judging by this Chronicle Herald article last week entitled “Eliminating Tuition Fees would Buoy Bluenose Economy“, bad ideas die hard. So let’s think this one through. More...
By . A couple of big events occurred internationally over the last few weeks, which will matter to folks in the international recruitment field. Briefly, they are:
1) The Saudis are pulling back. Things are moderately bad in the kingdom right now. Their gambit of driving down the price of oil in order to run the American fracking industry out of business is not working as quickly as they hoped, and may have re-established an era of cheap, $50 (or sub-$50) oil for the foreseeable future. More...
By . Issues run in cycles. Remember the skills gap? It was a big deal back when the price of oil was over $80 a barrel. We haven’t heard so much about it since – and judging by the way oil futures markets are behaving, it may be awhile before we hear it again. More...
By . Many of you may have already seen this piece from the Guardian last week entitled “My students have paid £9,000 and now they think they own me”. The details are obviously England-specific, but it’s basically a riff on that oft-heard complaint: if the cost of education gets too high, and students start thinking of themselves as – shock, horror - consumers, then higher education is definitely dead, bring back the dark ages, etc., etc. More...
By . Here’s the thing about universities in developing countries: they were designed for a past age. In Latin America, the dominant model was that of Napoleon’s Universite de France – a single university for an entire country, which was all the rage among progressives for the first half of the nineteenth century. More...
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