By Patrick Atack. The new edition of the OECD’s Trends Shaping Education report was presented at the Education World Forum by the organisation’s education director Andreas Schleicher, who suggested that many global changes face the international education sector, but they do not need to be negative. More...
Rapport de la commission d'enquête parlementaire sur l'utilisation de la chlordécone : des recommandations Plan Chlordécone IV
Rapports des groupes de travail LPPR : synthèse et analyse
'Alarming' Chinese meddling at UK universities exposed in report
Universities are not adequately responding to the growing risk of China and other “autocracies” influencing academic freedom in the UK, the foreign affairs select committee has said. More...
Guest Post: Slouching Toward Palo Alto
By John Warner. Last Thursday, on the eve of University Press Week, Stanford University’s Office of the Provost delivered its much-anticipated report on the future of Stanford University Press. The report says much about the elite university’s priorities. It also reveals how little the committee understands scholarly publishing. More...
Report: Financial Aid Has Little Effect on Completion
By Madeline St. Amour. A working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that need-based financial aid grant offers have little effect on completion trajectories for low-income college students. More...
Social Media In and Out of School: Notes From the Creating and Connecting Report
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Social Media In and Out of School: Notes From the Creating and Connecting Report
Report from a study in the U.S. "96 percent of teens and tweens between the ages of 9 and 17 with Internet access in the U.S. are using social networking technologies such as chat, text-messaging, blogging, or visiting online communities such as Facebook and MySpace." I wonder how many of them read books. More...
Report on Accountability and Higher Ed's 'Triad'
By Paul Fain. A new report from New America recommends a wide range of changes to higher education's regulatory triad, the three primary types of regulators for the industry: accreditors, state agencies and the U.S. Department of Education. More...