Just because lots of influential people think it is axiomatic that schools, further education colleges and universities belong together, it is worth testing the idea. Are the current arrangements really so bad? Are there things that currently work well that would be lost? Is yet another Whitehall upheaval worth the pain and cost. More...
By . Morning, all.
Everyone’s writing a Brexit thinkpiece these days. Literally, everyone. I’m feeling left out. So here’s mine.
1) Brexit isn’t a foregone conclusion. Yes, Leave won 52% of a non-binding referendum based on a pack of lies about the results of future negotiations that would make the PQ blush. But the UK government has yet to invoke Article 50, the clause in the EU constitution that signals a 2-year countdown to departure, and will certainly not do so until a new PM is chosen. They may not do so until after the French and German elections next year, and as the realities of negotiating a divorce sink in they may never do so (and – irony of ironies, there are not enough trade lawyers in the UK to negotiate such deals, so they are having to import them). More...
By Michael Feldstein. If it feels like a commercial that could have been produced by a textbook publisher or ed tech vendor, that is entirely intentional. More...
By Phil Hill. Leading into BbWorld16, Blackboard’s annual users conference in the air conditioned bunker of The Venetian in Las Vegas, the company announced that they were partnering with IBM. More...
By Phil Hill. It’s interesting how one phrase can cause such a reaction.
There is an interesting angle here in that Sakai is open source yet data is not easily recoverable.
This comment came from the original post discussing UC Davis’ SmartSite disaster when their Sakai hosting partner Scriba botched a data center move, leading to a university of 32,000+ students going without a fully-functional LMS for the last three weeks of a term, including finals week. More...
By . What happens when the world’s richest country invests billions of dollars to get top western universities to teach on its territory? That ambitious experiment is playing out in the small Persian Gulf country of Qatar. More...
By . How difficult is it for recent college students to repay their share of the $1.3 trillion in outstanding student loan debt? The newly released College Scorecard reports that 37 percent of federal student loan borrowers were unable to pay back even $1 of their outstanding principal balance after three years in repayment. More...
By . It is time to broaden the national dialogue about educational opportunity for incarcerated students. At a recent event at the Center for American Progress, Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr. spotlighted the administration’s Second Chance Pell initiative, a program that will allow eligible prisoners to receive Pell Grants to pursue higher education opportunities at one of 67 two- or four-year institutions nationwide. More...
By . Public and private sector leaders currently face the daunting task of identifying the path to achieving the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs or Global Goals) within 14 years. More...
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