By Douglas Proctor. The International Education Research Network, or IERN, is a one-stop research portal for the international education community, supporting collaboration between academics, professional staff, governments and industry associations. Read more...
By Brier Dudley. The University District is being targeted as a tech hub financed in part by taxing property owners. But is that the best approach to use to build the next technohood?
Jim Stockdale doesn’t look like a startup financier. But the 84-year-old retired pastor — and others in his University District condominium building — is being pushed into paying for an overhaul of the neighborhood aimed at luring more tech startups. More...
By Kristin Hohenadel. Thomas Heatherwick is the London-based architect whose Heatherwick Studio has produced the 2012 London Olympics’ hammered copper cauldron, a futuristic version of London’s double-decker bus, plans for a Garden Bridge that would provide a grace note of urban flora for pedestrians crossing the Thames, and the new Googleplex in Silicon Valley. More...
Blog Educpros de Jean-François Fiorina. Dernier volet de ma trilogie qatarie, voici ce que je retiens de ma visite à Education City, le hub enseignement supérieur. Un projet porté par un pays qui a les moyens de ses ambitions mais qui doit inscrire sa démarche dans la durée tout en faisant face à d’autres initiatives du même type, y compris dans son voisinage. Suite...
Dominican’s decision to participate as a Learning Hub grew from work initiated as part of a planning grant from the New York-based Teagle Foundation. Dominican is leading a consortium of West Coast liberal arts colleges on a project examining how best to integrate innovative technology in education with high-impact educational practices commonly used in small liberal arts colleges and universities. More...
By Karen MacGregor. Aberystwyth University in Wales is the latest institution to announce plans to open a campus in Mauritius. It expects to launch four undergraduate degrees and one masters programme in September, and to locate in a new residential campus near the capital Port Louis next year.By Karen MacGregor. Africa has a highly mobile student population, with more than 380,000 students abroad. An ambitious higher education hub goal of Mauritius is to grow its international student numbers from a current 1,000 to 100,000, many of them from elsewhere in Africa. Building is under way to provide accommodation and learning facilities as more foreign students enrol, attracted by the solid higher education provided on the island and perhaps especially by the growing number of international universities setting up there. Read more...By Karen MacGregor. A common problem for branch campuses is persuading home university academics to teach at them. Not so for universities that have set up in the beautiful, sunny Mauritius. Medine Education Village – an integrated higher education, research and lifestyle development – plans to capitalise on the Indian Ocean island's popular tourist destination status to attract overseas universities and students. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
