By Lindsay McKenzie. An investigation into claims Arizona State University entered into an unethical deal with publisher Cengage has concluded there is “no evidence” the university did anything wrong. More...
10 juin 2019
10 juin 2019
Report Seeks Changes to English Higher Ed Financing
By Elizabeth Redden. A long-awaited report on higher education financing in England recommends reducing the maximum undergraduate tuition fee from 9,250 pounds (about $11,664) to £7,500 (about $9,458) and calls for the government to increase grants to universities to replace the lost fee income in full. More...
9 juin 2019
Horizon Report Highlights Upcoming Challenges
By Mark Lieberman. The latest edition of the Educause Horizon Report, an analysis of future trends in higher education, is available here. More...
9 juin 2019
Report: Career Planning as Early as Middle School Is Key to Workforce Equity
A new whitepaper produced by a coalition of representatives from government, industry, education and nonprofits asserts that career readiness should be the first priority of American education, beginning in middle school. More...
9 juin 2019
Report: Girls Outpace Boys in Technology Literacy
A new report from the National Center for Educational Statistics digs into the trends in technology and engineering literacy for eighth graders over a four-year period. More...
8 juin 2019
L’Observatoire des inégalités publie le troisième « Rapport sur les inégalités en France »
La troisième édition du Rapport sur les inégalités en France dresse un panorama complet de la situation française, des revenus à l’éducation, en passant par le logement ou l’emploi notamment. Il met en évidence les écarts qui existent entre milieux sociaux. Plus...8 juin 2019
"France Stratégie, a useful tool for public action and debate" 2018 Annual Report
France Stratégie contributes to the public debate by carrying out original studies that give concrete expression to emerging issues, outline new concepts or statistical tools, deliver assessments which may challenge findings that have hitherto been taken for granted, and draw conclusions that inform the public debate. More...
8 juin 2019
Rapport Ocde : impact de l’automatisation du travail
Selon l'Ocde, d'ici 15 ans en France, 16,4 % des emplois seraient automatisés et 32 % d'emplois risqueraient de l'être. Ces estimations se situent légèrement au-dessus de la moyenne des pays de l'Ocde. Plus...
5 juin 2019
Changing the Report, After the Vote
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Doug Lederman[Edit][Delete]: Changing the Report, After the Vote, Inside Higher Ed [Edit][Delete] September 1, 2006
What you should notice about this article is not merely that vigorous lobbying from Microsoft caused the Commission on the Future of Higher Education to back away from endorsing open source, but also the manner in which this change was achieved - by making the case, not during the committee discussions, but as an amendment after the meetings had concluded and after the document had been approved. "The commission would go with Duderstadt's compromise language, which he called 'an improvement in the draft' that 'does not require and will not be put to a vote.'" This is hardly unusual on the part of Microsoft. It is typical of the ongoing lobbying campaign against open source. More...
5 juin 2019
Rights and Rewards Project: Academic Survey: Final Report
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Melanie Bates, Steve Loddington, Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim[Edit][Delete]: Rights and Rewards Project: Academic Survey: Final Report, Jisc [Edit][Delete]JISC [Edit][Delete] January 17, 2006[Survey that asks two questions of academics: "What rights would individuals expect to exert over the teaching materials they deposit into a repository, and what rewards would motivate them to deposit their teaching materials?" According to the results, contributors would like a salary increment or lump sum award (of course, there is a big difference, glossed in this survey, between 'like' and 'require'). As for rights, most professors wanted to be attributed, and with 'certain conditions' attached (for example, non-commercial use). More...
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