Many of the people heading to the gym at this time of year will be told that developing a strong core is key to maintaining good physical fitness. It’s the core muscles that stabilise the whole body. I would argue that the same principle applies to technical education. Without a strong core of qualifications at the mid-level – in education terminology, that’s levels 4 and 5 – we will always struggle to develop good technical education at both the top and the bottom of the system. Without a strong core, students enrolling on courses at levels 2 and 3 will find their route of progression blocked. More...
17 janvier 2018
To build a better skills system we need a strong core
Fall 2016 Top 20 Largest Online Enrollments In US – With Trends Since 2012
The National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) and its Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) provide the most official data on colleges and universities in the United States. This is the fifth year of data, and we have an opportunity to view trends over time. More...
College Rankings Revisited: What Might an Artificial Intelligence Think?
Ranking colleges has become a bit of a national pastime. There are many organizations that publish “overall” rankings for our institutions of higher education (such as Forbes, Niche, Times Higher Education, and US News & World Report), each with their own methodologies. More...
Fall 2016 IPEDS Data: New Profile of US Higher Ed Online Education
The National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) and its Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) provide the most official data on colleges and universities in the United States. I have been analyzing and sharing the data since the inaugural Fall 2012 dataset. More...
Taking a Hard Look at Teacher Training
At the corner of a busy intersection on the southern edge of Beirut, behind mirrored glass and a towering razor-wire fence, a group of researchers gathered inside Unesco’s Beirut office last month for a two-day conference that focused on the challenges faced by teacher-education reformers across the Arab world. More...
3 best practices from VR implementation across departments
While many professors recognize virtual reality (VR) as an emerging classroom technology, some still struggle with how to incorporate it into their curriculum. There’s a default view that VR is only good for virtual field trips or in specific departments like computer science or media production. More...
Here’s why user experience is absolutely critical to higher education’s future
Harnessing user experience is the most powerful tool higher-education institutions have to transform learning–but user-experience design is mostly foreign in higher education. More...
5 key steps in developing a system for digital credentials
The guide, “Partnering with Employers to Create Workforce-Relevant Credentials,” is intended to steer faculty and administrators through a collaborative design and implementation process for developing a workforce-relevant credentialing system. More...
Fancy earning £332,000 a year? Try being a top university vice-chancellor
The average salary for bosses at the 24 Russell Group universities has been revealed – but not everyone thinks they’re worth the cash. More...
Now students pay thousands, firsts are on the rise
Many proud academics must have spluttered over their morning coffee in the senior common room to learn that a first-class degree, once as rare as hen’s teeth, is now more akin to a hen’s egg: we can all have one for breakfast, it seems, if we can only be bothered to go out to collect it. More...
