King's College London has decided to rebrand itself simply as King's London, to the horror of many students and alumni, Times Higher Education reported. Administrators say that the change is needed to end confusion about whether King's is a college or university.
A petition attracting opposition to the rebranding effort cites history and costs. "The rebranding of King's College London to simply King's London seems a bizarre move considering the institution's history as a college within the University of London. Read more...
Survey on Benchmarking MOOC strategies in Europe
The HOME project runs from 2014 to 2016 and has started benchmarking the opportunities and characteristics for European cooperation on MOOCs. To this end a call for position papers was published and a MOOC conference in Porto will be organised on 27 November 2014. In addition the project developed a survey to benchmark strategies on MOOC of European institutions and governments. More...





