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By Matt Terry. With some innovative thinking and some helpful student feedback, Hannah Holmes is doing away with the traditional essay in her classroom.
The assistant professor of economics spoke about ditching the dreaded “paper” at the Learning Technologies Symposium Monday.
The essay is one of the most common evaluation tools in education, but it could also be one of the most flawed. See more...

By Viktor Gronne and Dalia Miklaseviciute. With the European elections fast approaching it is time to consider the policy changes we want from the next five years. Although the new Erasmus+ is barely starting life, the elections mean that it is time to look into the next negotiations about Erasmus, starting in 2017. More...

Von Julia Frese. Vertreter der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz und des Wissenschaftsrates sind sich einig: Die Zukunft des deutschen Wissenschaftssystems sieht düster aus, wenn die Politik nicht bald handelt. Die Betroffenen plädieren dafür, dass die Regierung das Kooperationsverbot zwischen Bund und Ländern im Bereich Bildung endlich kippt.
Die Zahl der Studierenden in Deutschland steigt, doch die Ausstattung und Betreuung an den Universitäten wird kontinuierlich schlechter. Junge Wissenschaftler müssen sich jahrelang mit befristeten Verträgen und geringen Löhnen abspeisen lassen. More...

By John Ross. INTERNATIONAL students’ fees are the yardstick of what domestic students could face when tuition fees are deregulated, says University of Wollongong boss Paul Wellings.
The Australian government has made international fees a “surrogate price guide”, Professor Wellings said, because legislation prevents universities from charging domestic students more than they extract from overseas enrollees.
His comments follow HECS architect Bruce Chapman’s prediction that elite universities will quickly raise their fees to the levels collected from international students. More...

By David Newman. We require a totally fresh look at the ways in which universities are managed and how they define their priorities.
Tel Aviv University was recently under fire from the academic staff for closing the Department for French Studies. Despite the small numbers of students who have registered for the department, the faculty argue that the decision should have been based on academic considerations, rather than economic ones. More...

By Gabriel Sanchez Zinny. In Latin America, there is growing evidence of a major disconnect between the skills being taught in our classrooms and the demands of the labor market. On the one hand, youth aged 18 to 24 are facing extremely high unemployment rates -- but at the same time, large numbers of positions go unfulfilled due to the lack of qualified applicants. This fundamental paradox is the focus of a recent paper by Ernesto Garcia of the Mexican think tank Center for Research on Development (CIDAC), which asks: "What are companies looking for -- and not finding -- in young professionals?"
Garcia's statistics show that private firms primarily reject candidates for lack of knowledge or skills (over 70 percent) rather than a lack of experience (just over two percent) or an incompatible personality (about 25 percent). More...

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By Seun Robert-Edomi. The new platform aims to open up access to qualifications for school-leavers, university graduates, young professionals and career changers. Uniquely, each course is fully contained within a free downloadable app allowing users to learn anywhere on their Android or iOS phone.
The first mobile professional skills Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform is to deliver free access to internationally-recognised training for millions of job-seekers. Mobile courses from Qualt are based on courses developed by the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), Google, the Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing (IDM) and other professional bodies. More...

By Kate Whitehead. As the trend for massive open online courses gathers pace, universities from Britain and around the region are looking at ways to stamp their educational brand on the world, writes Kate Whitehead.
Until a couple of years ago, few people had heard of them. Now massive open online courses - better known as MOOCs - seem to be everywhere, offering free access to high-quality content from the world's most prestigious universities.
It's a phenomenon that is changing our understanding of how knowledge can be distributed, and it could shake up the role of universities. More...

By Marcella Bombardieri. The stress is on production values, props, and, yes, scholarship.

The discussion between two Harvard historians one recent morning was a little bit Ivory Tower, a little bit Hollywood.  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Andrew Gordon, both preparing to teach a new breed of free online classes, met in the iconic Widener Library — bequeathed to Harvard University by the family of a Titanic victim — to discuss a topic in social history: the influence of the sewing machine on Japan’s modernization. They were surrounded not by leather-bound volumes but by a multimillion-dollar production studio and no fewer than five bustling staff members adjusting cameras and microphones and ensuring the scholars made their points clearly. More...