By Paul Kniest. According to the latest Department of Education and Training International Student Report (see Chart 1) there were 712,884 international students enrolled in Australia education in 2016. Higher education students made up the largest group of students accounting for 43.0% of the total (306,691) followed by vocational education (26.3%) and ELICOS (21.2%). Non-award and school students together accounted for less than 10% of all students. More...
Economic growth (GDP) always gets a lot of attention, but when it comes to determining how people are doing it’s interesting to look at other indicators that focus more on the actual material conditions of households. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Regulating “big data education” in Europe: lessons learned from the US
Yoni Har Carmel, Internet Policy Review, 2017/02/14
I found this item while doing some background reading related to the IEEE-LTSC's approval today of a new proposal to look at standards for the ethical sharing of child and student data. More...
By Phil Hill. After last year’s disastrous outage at UC Davis due to Scriba Corp’s change of data center for the Sakai LMS (branded as SmartSite at UC Davis), it turns out that there is more damage to be done as the company slowly disappears. More...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A state Senate bill would require New York colleges to compile reports on foreign-born students. More...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The number of students earning their first undergraduate degree — both associate and bachelor’s degrees — in 2015-16 declined by 1.4 percent from the previous year, according to a new report. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Some education researchers have begun downloading federal data amid questions about the new administration's commitment to continuing transparency efforts. Read more...
By Paul Fain. For-profit-college advocates cite Obama administration data goof on loan repayment rates as justification for revisiting borrower-defense and gainful-employment rules. Read more...
By Carl Straumsheim. Study finds that giving students timely feedback about their performance in a class can benefit students with lower grades. Read more...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Trends in education promise to improve how institutions support students by providing the student, instructor, or institution the ability to make more informed decisions using student-created data. More...
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