By Cathy Davidson. After finishing filming our last segment on "The History of Higher Education" (Week 3: Teaching Like It's 1992), we are now scouting locations for the "Future of Higher Education."
By David Evans. Conference organized by U of A brought leaders together to seek answers. “These things always start with budget cuts, don’t they?” Baroness Diana Warwick said with a wry, not-quite-cynical smile over a cup of tea in the restaurant of an Ottawa hotel. She was starting an explanation of how tuition fees of more than $15,000 a year became the poster child for change in higher education in a country once known as the birthplace of the welfare state, and still famously associated with the origins of the modern university. Read more...
By David Wessel. Can Government Have Affordability and Quality? Until now, the federal government's response to rising college costs has been to spend more on grants, loans and tuition tax breaks. But that is increasingly expensive and does little to assure that taxpayers' and students' (increasingly borrowed) money is well spent. Read more...
Mehr Wettbewerb und neue Leuchttürme: In seinen "Perspektiven des deutschen Wissenschaftssystems" hat der Wissenschaftsrat die hochschulpolitische Marschrichtung für das kommende Jahrzehnt festgelegt. Größter Haken: Dafür braucht es jede Menge Geld. Demografischer Wandel und internationaler Wettbewerb - auf diese beiden Entwicklungen muss das deutsche Hochschulwesen reagieren, findet der Wissenschaftsrat. Gemeint ist: Aktuell sind die Studenten in Deutschland jünger denn je, und es so viele wie noch nie. Doch die Entwicklung könnte sich in Zukunft umkehren, wenn die geburtenstarken Jahrgänge die Hochschulen verlassen haben. Gleichzeitig wird die weltweite wissenschaftliche Konkurrenz immer stärker. Um darauf zu reagieren, müssen sich die deutschen Hochschulen erneuern, und wie das geschehen soll, hat der Wissenschaftsrat nun in seinem Papier "Perspektiven des deutschen Wissenschaftssystems" skizziert. Das 117-Seiten-Dokument ist sperrig, aber durchaus bedeutend für die Entwicklung der deutschen Hochschullandschaft, denn es kommt vom wichtigsten Beratungsgremium von Bund und Ländern in der Hochschul- und Forschungspolitik. Mehr...
By Uditha Kumarasinghe. The Higher Education Ministry has formulated a National Higher Education Strategic Management Plan for Sri Lanka as a Mid Term Plan covering years 2012 to 2015 to make Sri Lanka an international hub of excellence in higher education by 2020.
In line with earlier forecasts, Cedefop’s projections for skill supply and demand in the European Union (EU) foresee a gradual return to job growth and an older, but better qualified workforce.
The latest forecast extends the time horizon from 2020 to 2025 and differs from its predecessors in seeing demand for high-level qualifications speeding up.
The forecasts consider three scenarios – baseline, optimistic and pessimistic – to show how different economic circumstances may influence the labour market from now until 2025. All three point to skill mismatches (skill shortages and overqualification) in the European labour market in the medium term. Download the briefing note.
By Eric Stoller. Change is thrilling. Change is scary. Change is rejuvenating. Change is fast. Change is slow. Change happens. My consulting endeavors take me all over the country and onto campuses of all shapes and sizes. Most of the time, I'm brought in to talk about social media and strategic communications. What generally happens is that social media are the lead-in to a greater conversation about organizational change and organizational communication. Organizations are usually eager to talk about change with an outsider like myself. I stroll onto campus and bring a new voice to the table. A lot of conversations about change consist of an "airing of grievances" or issues that the organization is dealing with. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Intellectual property battles in the MOOC age are a “last stand” in the fight for academic freedom, a longtime evangelist of the topic told university professors here Wednesday. If faculty lose that fight, “being a professor will no longer be a profession or a career,” Cary Nelson, professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of No University Is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom, said at the annual meeting of the American Association of University Professors, of which he was formerly the president. “Higher ed will be service industry, that’s it.” Read more...
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