In fact, a new study suggests many people across the world are instead embracing a hodgepodge of do-it-yourself learning options. To collect the data, Pearson conducted an online survey of 11,083 people between the ages of 16 to 70. More...
For the past two years as many as 1 million tech jobs remain unfilled. Tech executives on the CNBC Technology Executive Council say it has become harder to fill tech positions, so candidates with liberal arts degrees, or no college degree, are now being hired. More...
An educational imperative: Our students must know how to live and work in a world that is dictated by data. Our youth are inheriting the future in real time. More...
College officials and researchers share initiatives that institutions can use to help admit and graduate a more diverse student body. College can be a springboard to success, yet its doors often aren’t as easy to open for many low-income and underrepresented minority students. More...
The colleges and universities that are furthest along in their accessibility efforts tend to have IT leaders and staff who share certain practices. More...
For years, big tech companies have used huge salaries, bonuses and stock packages to lure artificial intelligence experts out of academia. Now, a study released on Friday says that migration has hurt the post-college prospects of students. More...
Dix-neuf familles ont décidé d’attaquer l’Etat en justice pour protester contre le non-remplacement de professeurs absents. Elles estiment qu’environ 17% des heures de cours sur l’année 2018-2019 n’ont pas été assurées. Plus...Cela fait de nombreuses années que la restauration scolaire est pointée du doigt, à la fois par les enfants, mais aussi par leurs parents. Soucieux de la qualité des aliments que consomment leurs enfants, ils cherchent à trouver le moyen de comprendre concrètement quel est le problème de la cantine et bien souvent, ils décident d’agir. Plus...« Il faut tout un village pour élever un enfant », dit un proverbe africain. Il faudrait que tous les adultes s’entendent pour y contribuer sans se dire que cela relève plus du travail des parents ou de l’école. C’était davantage le cas dans les années 50 où tous les adultes avaient les mêmes références, les mêmes règles. Si une personne ne les respectait pas, elle était exclue. Plus...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Understandable Hypocrisy
I need to reserve some time for a longer response to Paul Capon's response to my criticisms of the CCL report. But for now, as a reaction to the methodology employed by the report (and endorsed my various EU and OECD organizations) I offer, as an outline, this post. It is a summary - an all-to-brief and possibly incomplete summary - of the sorts of errors these organizations make. My difficulty - and I easily confess it here - is that in such matters the scientific converges with the political. It is difficult to criticize such a report without seeming political even if the criticisms are exclusively scientific; and this is compounded is the bases for the methodology employed in the report are in fact political. More...
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