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24 août 2014

Teaching Is Not a Business

Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. David L. Kirp, The New York Times, August, 16, 2014, Teaching Is Not a Business (signalement par Samuel Bliman).
TODAY’S education reformers believe that schools are broken and that business can supply the remedy. Some place their faith in the idea of competition. Others embrace disruptive innovation, mainly through online learning. Both camps share the belief that the solution resides in the impersonal, whether it’s the invisible hand of the market or the transformative power of technology. Suite...

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23 août 2014

peerTransfer surpasses $1bn in payments

By Beckie Smith. US-based online payment platform peerTransfer has this month reached its $1bn milestone in international education payments. After a concerted push for global expansion in 2014, the company, which is backed by Spark Capital, Devonshire Investors, and QED Investors, among others, recently welcomed its 500th client when it signed up Bournemouth University, home to 2,000 international students. More...

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23 août 2014

Place Your Bets

By Carl Straumsheim. Can the billion-dollar ed-tech industry, flush with funds from venture capital firms, keep up its record-setting investment pace, or is it setting itself up for a massive crash?
It was a question floated at this year’s Education Innovation Summit, the marquee event for ed-tech companies -- startups and established players alike -- to woo investors eyeing the industry. Read more...

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10 août 2014

Business office efficiencies for better financial health

By John Lenckos. To confront today’s financial challenges, every college and university needs to create more operational efficiency. Some of these efficiencies start in the business office.
For instance, key aspects of higher education financial management are paper-intensive and outdated —a stark contrast to the first-class technology used in campus classrooms. A primary target for business officers should be eliminating paper checks, which simply are not efficient -- in terms of money or time -- for vendor payments, student tuition refunds, or employee payroll. More...

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10 août 2014

Linking Business and Budgets

By Paul Fain. Business leaders have been vocal in their criticism of higher education for not producing enough skilled workers. Yet corporate types rarely stand up for public colleges during funding battles in state capitols. That may be changing in Louisiana. A recently enacted law in the state requires colleges and private industry to team up on workforce-related academic programs. Read more...

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4 août 2014

Lessons Higher Education Could Learn from the Real Estate Industry

By Cynda Alexander - EvoLLLution. The real estate industry is not unlike higher education in that both primarily sell an “intangible” service and require clients (sellers or buyers or students) to make money. Plus, both industries are the first victims during a downturn in the economy. It’s during these times they have to stand above the competition to stay in business. More...

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13 juillet 2014

US ideas have a disproportionate influence on business schools

By David Collinson. Desire to publish in top, US-based journals has a homogenising effect on research. The changing nature of research evaluation in UK higher education is creating perverse and damaging consequences. UK higher education research is increasingly characterised by “McDonaldised” audit cultures that reduce complex issues of quality to quantified assessment measures. More...

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6 juillet 2014

‘We Are Creating Walmarts of Higher Education’

By Timothy Pratt. Original Article. As colleges feel pressure to graduate more students for less money, professors worry that the value of an education may be diminished. Universities in South Dakota, Nebraska, and other states have cut the number of credits students need to graduate. More...

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6 juillet 2014

More university-business collaboration needed – Study

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By Peta Lee. The business sector should be more involved in designing higher education curricula and universities should work more closely with industry partners to promote entrepreneurship, mobility between business and academia and lifelong learning. There should also be more assessment and better monitoring of university-business collaborations and programmes. Read more...

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5 juillet 2014

Discount Escalation

By Ry Rivard. Private colleges are continuing unabated their strategy of setting high sticker prices while giving most of their students steep discounts, according to the latest survey of private colleges by the National Association of College and University Business Officers. The colleges, many of which are struggling to meet enrollment goals, are taking in only 54 cents for every $1 they claim to charge in tuition. Read more...

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