By Natalie Marsh. It’s not just international students who seek out university preparation through pathway providers. In an interview with The PIE News, Tony Cullen, executive general manager of marketing and sales at Navitas said around a quarter of all students in the company’s Australian colleges are domestic. More...
Navitas reports earnings up, North America growth ambitions
By Beckie Smith. Navitas has announced “solid growth” in revenue, earnings and margins so far in FY2016, though contract closures will keep earnings in line with 2015’s, the company has predicted. More...
Sharp drop in foreign students at business schools
By Brendan O'Malley. One third of all international students in UK universities are studying in a business school. However, last year’s intake from outside the European Union fell sharply by 8.6%, according to the latest figures published last week by the Chartered Association of Business Schools, or CABS, in a new report. Read more...
Students should 'study in the US if they want to be business leaders', says head
By Josie Gurney-Read. An independent school head teacher has criticised UK universities' focus on academia, saying the US is the place to be for budding entrepreneurs. Read more...
openSAP breaks through 1 million
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. openSAP breaks through 1 million
Steve Brooks, Enterprise Times, 2016/02/12
This is an interesting milestone and is a good example of the sort of shape a lot of e-learning will take in the future. The OpenSAP MOOC "platform was launched in 2013 in conjunction with the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) and has been constantly evolving over the last three years." More...
Aereo founder’s next business: Wireless gigabit home Internet
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Millimeter wave tech will achieve high speeds, launching first in Boston. A startup led by the founder of Aereo says it plans to sell wireless Internet service with speeds of 1Gbps in Boston and then other cities. More...
How Five EdTech Start-Ups Are Using Big Data To Boost Business Education
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Education tech companies including Coursera, edX, Udacity and their b-school and university partners are delving deeper into big data analytics to improve teaching and student learning. More...
Business schools ‘must challenge leader stereotypes’
By John Elmes. Women in Leadership conference host says schools must ‘deconstruct’ curricula to combat gender bias. More...
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The Professional Science Master's partners with Liaison
By Stefanie Botelho. Liaison, the leader in admissions management and enrollment marketing solutions for higher education institutions, today announced that it will power a centralized application service (CAS) for the Professional Science Master's (PSM) National Office. More...