By Carl Straumsheim. Influuent (the university says the name is a combination of “influence” and “influunt,” the Latin word for “flow”) is being developed as more than just a faculty directory. For the private sector, administrators say, the database could serve as a starting point for commercial partnerships; for faculty members, a “matchmaking” site for research projects; and for journalists, a catalog of experts available to comment. Read more...
Bills to ‘privatise’ four major universities passed
By Suluck Lamubol. Thailand’s military-dominated National Legislative Assembly has passed bills granting four major public universities increased autonomy, which opponents regard as a step towards privatisation. Read more...
A Plan to Privatize Public Universities in Illinois
Advocates for public higher education sometimes describe various state plans as efforts to de facto privatize colleges and universities. In Illinois, a Republican legislator has proposed a plan that would literally privatize the state's universities, The News-Gazette reported. Read more...
Vade-mecum des passerelles public-privé
Des aménagements successifs ont levé les freins réglementaires à la mobilité, à la consultance et à la création.
Ce vade-mecum est destiné aux chercheurs et enseignants-chercheurs qui souhaitent effectuer une mobilité en entreprise, réaliser des travaux de consultance, ou créer une entreprise, et qui s'interrogent sur les dispositifs en vigueur et sur la marche à suivre.
Les personnels ingénieurs, techniciens et administratifs de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche peuvent bénèficier de certains dispositifs décrits dans le vade-mecum.
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UK: Gov imposes new regulation for private colleges
By Katie Duncan. A ‘Rapid Response Team’ to investigate fraud allegations and ‘fit and proper’ tests for directors of alternative providers (APs) are just some of the new measures the government will apply to private colleges, as revealed yesterday in an unexpected ministerial statement by Universities and Science Minister Greg Clark. More...
State and private school university approaches compared
By . State schools need to move beyond a “narrow focus” on exams in order to help increase aspirations for pupils to attend university. More...
Le SUP privé : a waste of money
Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Private colleges are a waste of money for white, middle class kids, Max Ehrenfreund, Washington Post, December 18. Signalement par Samuel Bliman.
These students attend the University of Maryland in College Park. They were smart.
Many parents whose kids have their eye on an exclusive, private college face a difficult question: Is it worth unloading your life’s savings or having your child take on tens of thousands of dollars in student loans. Suite...
Public-private partnerships and all that
By . “We are in the midst of a widespread exercise in innovation, adaptability, and resilience”
Dr William Lawton, outgoing Director of the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education (OBHE), shares some insights on public-private partnerships (PPPs) in higher education in the wake of a successful event on the topic.
‘If PPPs are the answer, what was the question?’ That was one question tackled at the Observatory’s latest conference, ‘The future of public-private partnerships in higher education’, held on 3-4 December at Regent’s University London (incidentally a private but not-for-profit institution). Presentations can be seen here. More...
Canadian governments have become seduced by private-public projects
By Barrie McKenna. Revelations that cash-strapped Ontario may have squandered as much as $8-billion on dozens of infrastructure projects is shocking enough.
But the real stunner for tax payers is that the province, and governments across the country, risk repeating the same costly mistakes on hundreds of future projects. More...