Bloomfield College has become an official Cisco Networking Academy, joining a global network of diverse educational institutions dedicated to the values and mission of Networking Academy and student success. More...
A decade of living in the gift shop
A decade of living in the gift shop
Dean Groom, Playable, 2018/02/05
"Exit through the gift shop." The phrase says everything that needs to be said about the commercialization of culture and heritage. The same phenomenon seems to be inhabiting Ed Tech and things like the #EdTech discussions, suggests Dean Groom. More...
SmartForce to Buy Centra in $284 Million Stock Deal
SmartForce to Buy Centra in $284 Million Stock Deal
As the headline suggests, Centra, known for its real-time virtual classrooms, is to be acquired in a $284 million stock deal by SmartForce, known mostly for its e-learning content but also for its LMS and content creation tools. More...
Rider Plans to Sell Westminster to Chinese Company
By Rick Seltzer. Beijing Kaiwen Education Technology Co. and Rider have finalized a nonbinding term sheet, the university said today. The sale would transfer Westminster Choir College, Westminster Conservatory of Music and Westminster Continuing Education to a company based in China that owns two K-12 international schools in Beijing called the Kaiwen Academies. More...
Educause Purchases New Media Consortium
By Lindsay McKenzie. Educause said Thursday that it is buying the assets of the New Media Consortium, a now defunct organization best known for its Horizon reports on the future of education technology. More...
What Oberlin reveals about higher ed’s vulnerable business model
What Oberlin reveals about higher ed’s vulnerable business model
Alana Dunagan, Christensen Institute, 2018/01/17
This post almost makes me feel sorry for a university that has an $800 million endowment and charges $70K tuition per year. Almost. The argument is that if the school falls even 2.8 percent short on enrollments, it leads to a $5 million budget gap. Lowering prices or lowering spending threaten the school's prestige status. More...
Where did business schools and MBAs go wrong?
Business schools have lost sight of their original purpose – to serve society
Also in Commentary, Eric Fredua-Kwarteng and Samuel Ofosu contend that the ‘developmental university’ is a better model for the African continent than the ‘Africanised university’, whose proponents are over-consumed with the politics of decolonisation as if that is the only developmental challenge facing the continent. Allan E Goodman says that how we respond to the present global education imperatives will shape our future, so we should guard against dynamics that close our doors and our minds and embrace an international approach.
In our World Blog, Patrick Blessinger and Mandla Makhanya examine the concept of higher education as a common good, whereby universities fulfil their missions by serving the contemporary needs of their constituents and addressing a range of social needs.
In Features, Tunde Fatunde reports that irregular payment of public university lecturers’ salaries in Nigeria is causing personal hardship, with fatal consequences when staff are unable to afford adequate food and proper medical care.
In a Special Report covering the annual conference of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the CHEA International Quality Group in Washington DC, Mary Beth Marklein reports that Republicans in the US are proposing a comprehensive rewrite of the higher education law, to which Democrats are vehemently opposed. Marklein also reports from the conference that the higher education accreditation sector is facing pressure to reform to stem waning public confidence in the value of US degrees. More...
ConvictionsRH accueille Bpifrance et Rives Croissance à son capital
Il s’est développé autour de quatre expertises : Politiques RH, SIRH & la Digitalisation, Stratégie & Transformations d’organisations et enfin la Conduite du changement et l’Accompagnement managérial. Plus...
Okla. universities teaching business skills to health care professionals
The recovery plan for the ailing Oklahoma Health Department includes a strong dose of good business practices. More...