The Report highlights countries’ achievements and shortcomings in ensuring the right of migrant and refugee children to benefit from quality education, a right that serves the interests of both learners and the communities they live in. More...
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training, chaired by Andrew Laming MP, tabled its report, Australian Government Funding Arrangements for non-NHMRC research on Monday 26 November 2018. More...
By Steven Johnson, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Last March the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) welcomed Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, to its campus. Nearby, and captured in a photograph of the occasion, was Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, reportedly an intelligence officer who is often seen in the prince’s company. More...
Entering the Mainstream: The Quality and Extent of Online Education in the United States, 2003 and 2004
From the report: more than 1.9 million students were studying online in the fall of 2003. Schools expect the number of online students to grow to more than 2.6 million by the fall of 2004. "Schools that offer online courses believe that their online students are at least as satisfied as those taking their face-to-face offerings." Detailed report, numerous statistics. More...
By Sharon Dell – Editor. A report from the South African Human Rights Commission investigation into allegations of racial tension, unfair discrimination and harassment at South Africa’s mega open distance education institution, the University of South Africa (Unisa), has produced heated debate in the media. On the one side are concerns that equity policies overlook merit; on the other, concerns about the “delegitimisation of black pain” in pursuit of a “dubious” sense of social cohesion. More...
Students report a lack of personalized communications, based on given data, has turned them off from a particular institution. More...
A recent report shows graduates from NSW universities generally have the highest median income. Unsurprisingly, so do graduates from dentistry and medicine courses. More...D’Arcy Podcasting
James Farmer (who has found a new energy, it seems :) ) reports on this project by D'Arcy Norman at the University of Calgary. Norman has been experimenting with podcasts using WordPress. More...
Lost Under the Streetlight
The author argues that colleges and universities should not be held responsible for file sharing. The case, if you will, seems pretty clear cut: "the RIAA reports that just 191 of the 5,441 individuals who have been the named targets of RIAA P2P lawsuits over the past few years are based on college campuses, using campus networks." He asks, "how long before the media industries and members of Congress focus their public comments and copyright efforts on the consumer ISPs?" The answer is, of course, as soon as the RIAA can get the softer targets - the colleges and universities - to comply. More...
By Ashley A. Smith. A report released today by the Campaign for College Opportunity examines the growing population of Latinx people in California and their academic achievement.
According to the report, only 18 percent of Latinx adults in California have a college degree, compared to 34 percent of black people, 52 percent of white people and 62 percent of Asians in the state. More...
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