Government must keep dodgy private providers out of higher education
By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is calling on the Turnbull government to rule out extending Commonwealth supported higher education places (CSPs) to for-profit providers, following the latest damning indictment on the for-profit vocational education and training (VET) sector. More...
Competition and choice: HEFCE response to higher education White Paper
The Government’s White Paper aims to put in place a simpler and more efficient higher education and research system which encourages competition and choice, drives up quality, and ensures greater accountability and value for money. More...
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Diverse Sacrifices, Diverse Rewards, Diverse Policies
By . One of the trickiest things about developing smart higher education policy is that its clients are unbelievably diverse: privileged private-school educated 18 year-olds, first-generation students, working adults, etc. And the returns to education are equally diverse: strong for Bachelors’ and Master’s Degrees but less so for Doctorates, often strong in professionally-oriented fields and less so in Arts. More...
How Effective Is Chivas Regal Pricing In Higher Education?
By Noah Askin - EvoLLLution. Chivas Regal was a middling scotch whiskey brand struggling to make sales, so they doubled their price and, according to legend, doubled their sales. It’s a story that has made its rounds in the corporate world and it’s starting to get traction in the higher education space as well. More...
Tradition vs. nostalgia in higher education
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The discussion surrounding the creation of a dynamic system for revitalizing today’s colleges and universities is often mired in the debate over the loss of tradition, the time-honored practices of relatively modern learning institutions. It is no wonder since this is what we have to associate with higher education. More...
How higher ed consortia are structured
By Sherrie Negrea. Colleges or universities looking to join a higher education consortium have two major options: alliances that are regionally based or those focused on a common goal. More...
Alliances bring national buying power
By Sherrie Negrea. The new higher education alliances cropping up are not just of the regional variety.
A group of private colleges and universities created a consortium in fall 2015 to negotiate better deals on enterprise resource planning systems, which can account for up to 4 percent of an institution’s entire annual budget. More...
L'apprentissage dans l'enseignement supérieur ou l'art d'une relation à trois
Cette étude illustre, dans un cas particulier, le rôle majeur de l’organisme de formation dans la mise en relation entre entreprise et étudiant. Pour autant, les résultats sont nuancés : si l’insertion professionnelle est souvent au bout de la formation, elle dépend en partie des critères de sélection utilisés par l’organisme d’enseignement. Et les perspectives d’emploi et d’évolution professionnelle ne sont pas toujours au rendez-vous. Voir l'article...