On 7 June, HEPI will host its 2017 Annual Conference at Regent’s University London. The conference will provide a timely opportunity for senior leaders and policymakers from across the sector to come together to reflect on what it takes to create a university for students. More...
26 mai 2017
**Why you shouldn’t miss the HEPI Annual Conference 2017**
Hey, big spenders!
It was a busy weekend for higher education announcements. First, the Green Party announced a plan to pay off all outstanding student debt on graduates’ behalf. The details were sketchy but there is over £75 billion worth of outstanding debt in England alone. So it is a big policy whichever way you look at it. More...
Students support Labour but don’t trust them on fees, according to HEPI / YouthSight poll
Last week, HEPI and YouthSight polled over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students entitled to vote. More...
Recommended Reading: With or Without EdTech
By Michael Feldstein. A few weeks ago, I recommended an EdSurge piece by the Clayton Christensen Institute’s Julia Freeland Fisher. It featured this graph of refrigerator vs. washing machine diffusion. More...
Barnes & Noble Education’s Predictive Analytics Deal With Unizin
By Phil Hill. Barnes & Noble Education (BNED) announced today that they have a deal with Unizin to provide predictive analytics services through the LoudSight platform to the consortium’s member universities. More...
State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: Spring 2017 Edition
By Phil Hill. This is the ninth year I have shared the LMS market share graphic, commonly known as the squid graphic, for US and Canadian higher education. The original idea remains – to give a picture of the LMS market in one page, highlighting the story of the market over time. The key to the graphic is that the width of each band represents the percentage of institutions using a particular LMS as its primary system. More...
Movement of Canvas LMS to Global Markets
By Phil Hill. We’re coming up on our one-year anniversary of the e-Literate Big Picture: LMS market analysis service and getting our Spring 2017 report ready. One of the things that I love about working with LISTedTECH as our partners for this service is that their data goes beyond a snapshot in time and well beyond the North American market. Not to mention their skills with visualization of data. More...
Do For-profit Institutions Converting to Non-profit Affect Distance Education Enrollment Numbers?
By Phil Hill. To get a list of the major cases where for-profit institutions have successfully converted to non-profit status, I used the cases listed in Bob Shireman’s 2015 article on just this situation. While this list might not be exhaustive, it does cover the major cases from 2015 and prior – trust me, Bob would not miss any big ones given his angle. More...
Guide emploi et handicap : Handi Cap ou pas Cap ?
Édité par le Club Handicap & Compétences avec le soutien du MEDEF, ce guide emploi et handicap propose des conseils pratiques à l’attention des dirigeants et responsables de PME pour faire rimer emploi et handicap, propose de nombreux conseils et des informations pratiques sur le thème de l’emploi et du handicap.Entre tableaux, chiffres et diagrammes, il illustre également les différentes situations possibles à travers des cas pratiques mettant en scène des salariés ou candidats en situation de handicap. Voir l'article...
Quelle intervention publique pour favoriser le transfert des résultats de la recherche publique vers les entreprises ?
Le transfert se définit comme l’ensemble des processus permettant de transférer les résultats de la recherche publique vers les entreprises, où ils pourront donner lieu à la commercialisation de produits ou services innovants ou à une modification des procédés de production. Il se compose de différents canaux, qui peuvent être informels (contacts entre les laboratoires publics et les entreprises au cours de conférence ou par le biais des publications) ou formels (recherche contractuelle ou collaborative, commercialisation des résultats de la recherche publique (brevets, licences, …), mobilité des personnels de recherche entre les laboratoires publics et les entreprises, ou encore création d’entreprises par des chercheurs publics). Voir l'article...
