By Craig Maslowsky - EvoLLLution. In the ten years between 2002 and 2012, the number of institutions offering online degree programs almost doubled.[1] This adoption continues to expand across institutions, small and large, private and public, not-for and for-profit. Prospective online students have a seemingly endless list of options to consider as they decide their path to a credential. More...

By Shai Reshef - EvoLLLution. In 2013, President Barack Obama derided the high cost of higher education today, a theme reflected by the comments of countless students, families, observers and even post-secondary administrators. Public desire for more affordable and accessible higher education options has never been higher. More...

By Brent Chrite - EvoLLLution. Today’s management education marketplace is currently defined by an unprecedented level of volatility and competitiveness. The rapid convergence of a myriad of factors and conditions have resulted in a global management education environment that has become fundamentally transformed from the one in which business schools and colleges operated just ten years ago. More...

By Jane Kucko - EvoLLLution. Last week, as our small bus drove through the 1,000 hills of Rwanda, it struck me how fortunate I was to be part of the ever-growing emphasis upon internationalizing higher education. More...

By Carol Howard - EvoLLLution. The recession marked a number of significant changes in the American labor market, but most important was the full-force transition toward a knowledge-based economy. As the recovery began in earnest, many employers began investing more and more into employee training and development, and the already-lucrative corporate education industry became a multi-billion dollar opportunity for education providers across the United States. More...

By Alex Usher.  The weirdest – but also possibly most globally consequential – story from this year’s higher education silly season comes from England.  It’s about something called a “Teaching Excellence Framework”.
Now, news of nationally-specific higher education accountability mechanisms don’t often travel.  Because, honestly, who cares?  It’s enough trouble keeping track of accountability arrangements in one’s own country. More...

By Alex Usher. You’ll recall that the UK had an election in early May in which the Conservative Party, contrary to most polling, won a majority of seats, and thus was able to form a government without need for a coalition.  On July 8, the new government delivered its first budget, which contained a lot of policies that – to put it mildly – had not exactly been fully outlined to the electorate eight weeks earlier. In student aid, what that meant was the outright abolition of maintenance grants, and their replacement with student loans of slightly higher value. More...

By Alex Usher. If you’re in the looking-at-student-debt business in Canada, your data sources are limited.  Provinces could publish their debt figures annually, but they don’t.  Canada Student Loans does publish its debt numbers annually, but it includes nothing on provincial debt, so it’s not very useful.  Statistics Canada surveys graduating students every five years, but only three years out from graduation, so the most recent data we have from that source is now five years old.  Kinda sucks. More...