By Joanna Newman. It's not enough to stay in Europe, says Joanna Newman ahead of a £70bn EU funding vote– we need to work with them too. The UK economy is doing a little better than expected this autumn with public sector borrowing down and tax receipts increasing. Nevertheless many households find their prospects bleak: welfare and local services are being cut, wage growth is weak and young people's job hopes are bearing the brunt. More...
By Jana Kasperkevic. Parents approach college tuition as they do bargain-shopping: the illusion of value means more than slashing the sticker price. For many Americans, paying for college is roll of a dice. You make a wish, close your eyes, roll and hope you hit a jackpot.
For me, it was more like a game of roulette. I placed my bets on a number of private colleges – all with vastly different tuition bills – hoping that at least one would pan out both educationally and financially. It didn’t quite happen that way. More...
By Stephen Hoare. PricewaterhouseCoopers is helping create a study option for graduates that straddles the academic and business worlds. A postgraduate degree has long been seen by employers as the mark of a motivated candidate. The extra year of study, combined with specialist knowledge, puts people ahead of the pack. But now there is a new option for graduates – higher-level apprenticeships. More...
By Stephen Hoare. Postgraduate business courses offer experiences ranging from the European parliament to work in Mongolian villages. Their international cohorts include students from as many as 40 countries, but instead of bringing the world to their classrooms, an increasing number of business schools send groups of postgraduates on overseas visits, to learn at first hand what it means to be a global citizen. More...
By George Arnett. The number of staff in further education dropped by 35% last year as colleges prepared for a rise in the age that children have to stay in education or training until. The decline in further education institutions - a mixture of sixth form colleges, general colleges and vocational training centres - has been quite sharp over the past decade, reducing by almost a fifth. More...
By David Matthews. A university threatened staff that it would dock them a day’s pay if they did not work unpaid overtime, it has emerged.
In advance of the sector-wide strike on 31 October, the human resources department at University of Wales Trinity Saint David emailed employees to inform them of the consequences of union action, including of working to contract. More...
By . MOOCs have emerged as a disruptive force in ‘traditional’ higher education. A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course allowing unlimited student enrollment through the internet. Coursera is one leading provider, encouraging participants to, “Take the world’s best courses, online, for free.”
In a meetup held at Northwestern University on October 17th, four of the major functions of universities were identified: education, credentialing, socialization and research. The conversation touched on how MOOCs may be unbundling some of these roles by offering education and credentialing, while clearly not addressing others, i.e., research and socialization. More...
By Diane Stirling. The planning, design, and implementation processes behind two Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) offered by the School of Information Studies (iSchool)—and their successful outcomes—will be the subject of a presentation at an educational leadership conference in London this week.
Peggy Brown, director of learning systems and an adjunct instructor at the iSchool, will provide fellow professionals a look at the before and after efforts that went into the implementation of two MOOCs, “An Introduction to Data Science with R,” and “New Librarianship: The Master Class,” both offered by the School this year. Her presentation to a group of online education professionals and educators at the autumn gathering of the Blackboard Education Leadership Forum will focus on the elements that produced successful outcomes. Brown expects to illustrate the planning, promotion, enrollment, engagement, implementation, and follow-up processes that produced the higher-than-normal participation and completion rates the School experienced. More...
By Dave Llorens. That's massive open online courses, to you and me. And MOOCs are everywhere. But they may also be polarizing in a way that is hurting the future of education.
I can’t remember if it was "MOOCs are Everywhere," or "Rise of the MOOCs," or what headline I had just read when I finally lost it. I yelled out “Oh God! STFU about MOOCs already!” into the dark corners of my Spartan, tech-nerd-bunker, like a crotchety old loon of 34 shaking my angry fist at nothing (repetitive). It had been a long day of hustle and grind, I had lost it for a few seconds, and I’d like to share those few seconds of thinking with you here today. More...
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan announced today the creation of Edraak, an education initiative of the Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development (QRF). Edraak, a partnership with non-profit online learning initiative edX, will be a MOOC portal for the Arab world and will bring quality education to millions of Arabic-speaking students around the globe. Her Majesty Queen Rania witnessed the historic signing of the agreement by QRF CEO Haifa Dia Al-Attia and edX president Anant Agarwal at edX's Cambridge offices. More...
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