By Rick Seltzer. College and university endowments’ net returns declined for the second straight year in 2016, dropping into negative territory and posting their worst results since the depths of the financial crisis. Read more...
17 février 2017
6 février 2017
The Crisis of Higher Education in India: How can public policy and governance reforms help?
The Indian higher education system is facing a crisis that is affecting its ability to build world class higher education institutions. Issues relating to quality, access and equity are some of the significant challenges of the higher education system in India. The historic context of the evolution of higher education system in India had focused on expansion and access with a view to providing opportunities for higher education to large number of aspiring students. This effort to expand the higher education system has led to a situation where quality and excellence have been given lesser importance. Since the Indian independence in 1947, there has been a significant expansion of higher education in both the public and private sectors with a stronger impetus since 1980s in private higher education. More...
31 janvier 2017
Student mobility: Are you prepared for managing a crisis?
By . What would you say to a student who walks into the international office asking for a recommendation of a student exchange destination that is guaranteed to be safe? How does one balance ‘opening doors to the world’ for the students and managing the risks that are related to mobility? Is your institution prepared to act if something unexpected happens? How do you support your students to be prepared for the unexpected. More...
26 janvier 2017
The big issue: from universities to schools, the system is in crisis
By Mark Brown. The comments by the Department for Education that you quote in your front page story are somewhat selective in their interpretation of the higher education and research bill. More...
12 janvier 2017
From economic crisis to crisis in economics
It would be easy to become very depressed at the state of economics in the current environment. Many experts, including economics experts, are simply being ignored. But the economic challenges facing us could not be greater: slowing growth, slowing productivity, the retreat of trade, the retreat of globalisation, high and rising levels of inequality. More...
5 janvier 2017
Why the Coming Jobs Crisis Is Bigger Than You Think
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why the Coming Jobs Crisis Is Bigger Than You Think
Art Bilger, Knowledge@Wharton, 2016/12/15
This has come up in other discussions as well. "No matter which political party holds the White House or Congress, over the next 25 years, 47% of jobs will likely be eliminated by technology and globalization." Well then, won't new jobs replace the ones we lose? Maybe not. More...
28 décembre 2016
Older college students face completion crisis
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Forbes reports on a growing trend among college students who begin school after the age of 24 and make up more than 24% of the enrollment population, but who drop out of school at nearly double the rate of younger students. More...
23 décembre 2016
Conference in Tallinn on children’s rights in migration crisis and digital environment
An international conference on Children’s rights in the migration crisis and the digital environment is taking place in Tallinn, Estonia from 3 to 4 November 2016. It is held under the current Estonian Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. More...
17 décembre 2016
A Tale of Two Crises
By Christine Henseler. Are dwindling support for the humanities and a lack of diversity in higher education two separate issues, asks Christine Henseler, or are they, in fact, closely intertwined? Read more...
17 décembre 2016
Why the Coming Jobs Crisis Is Bigger Than You Think
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Here is a sobering prediction: over the next 25 years, 47% of jobs will likely be eliminated by technology and globalization, according to WorkingNation. More...
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