Sur le blog de Michel Abhervé pour Alternatives économiques. Cette mission était chargée de faire le point sur les fonctions et l’exercice des missions des directeurs d’école dans le premier degré et de se pencher sur l’opportunité d’instaurer un statut des directeurs d’école, après avoir étudié celle de créer un statut juridique pour les écoles primaires elles-mêmes. Plus...
Fixing our biggest skills gap: New report calls on universities to reverse the collapse in technical education
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) is today publishing a new paper, Filling in the biggest skills gap: Increasing learning at Levels 4 and 5, on reviving the layers of education that lie between school-leaving exams and full honours degrees, where employers say they face the biggest skills gaps. More...These 4 areas are critical to higher ed’s technological transformation
Higher ed is in the middle of a critical–yet often invisible–technological transformation, according to a new report from the Center for Digital Education (CDE). More...
4 ways to address major risks to college opportunity
Rising tuition prices and student debt loads have come to dominate the debate over the future of higher education in the United States–but the risk to college opportunity goes well beyond that, according to a new report. More...
The challenges of growing PhD graduate numbers
By Wagdy Sawahel. The report Building PhD Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa, produced jointly by the British Council and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in cooperation with the African Network for Internationalisation of Education and University College London Institute of Education, builds on two key studies – the joint International Association of Universities and Catalan Association of Public Universities report, and the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (HERANA) 2014 report focusing on flagship African universities. More...A Honker of an Asterisk
By Matt Reed. Far more community college students transfer prior to completing the Associate’s degree than actually complete first. According to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, about 350,000 transfer before completion, compared to about 60,000 who complete first. More...
Educause Publishes Report on Tech Trends
By Lindsay McKenzie. The New Media Consortium’s delayed 2018 Horizon Report on higher education technology trends was published today by Educause. More...
Tough Choices Ahead
By Rick Seltzer. Berkeley and UCLA might be able to maintain their quality and reputation without a major shift to the funding paradigm, a new report says. For the rest of the University of California, no easy model exists. More...
Report Shows Drop in Students in Teacher Ed
By Emma Whitford. A report released Thursday by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) shows a decline in enrollment in colleges of education and many impending faculty retirements. The association used data from an "array of governmental and organizational sources" to produce the report. More...
Community College Students and Libraries
By Ashley A. Smith. The report, "Amplifying Student Voices: The Community College Libraries and Academic Support for Student Success Project," found that two-year students see their institutions as accessible and affordable, but they face challenges when balancing work, finances, their classes, transportation to and from campus, and navigating the resources colleges offer. More...