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19 janvier 2013

Social science is this year's theme for parks

By Elizabeth Gibney. Universities will this year start to build "social science parks" as a route to improving public services, according to a prediction published by Nesta, the foundation for innovation.
Contributing to an online article, "13 predictions for 2013", Adam Price, Nesta's public innovation lead, Wales, and a former MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, said that just as high-tech science parks are used to commercialise university research, clusters of practice-based research institutes will soon spring up to help public services function better and more cost-effectively. Read more...

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19 janvier 2013

Grayling's college bids for free school

By John Morgan. New College of the Humanities, the privately funded higher education institution charging fees of £18,000 a year, plans to open a free school in partnership with a private school firm.
NCH says in a statement today that it has applied to the Department for Education to open New School of the Humanities, a school for 11 to 18-year-olds in the London borough of Camden.
Two universities, Birmingham and Chester, already have permission to open free schools.
NCH's school would be run in partnership with Bellevue Education Group, which owns seven private preparatory schools in the UK and two Swiss boarding schools. Read more...

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19 janvier 2013

AC Grayling's New College of the Humanities plans to open free school

By Robert Booth. AC Grayling: New school will provide a grounding in the humanities for students to develop as well-rounded individuals. A private university college set up by the philosopher AC Grayling is bidding to open a sister state secondary school where the pupils could have access to lectures by top academics including Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and Niall Ferguson.
The New College of the Humanities has applied to the education secretary Michael Gove to open a "co-educational free school for students of all backgrounds" in Camden, central London, with a specialism in humanities. When the university opened last September with its first 60 students it was widely criticised for providing an elitist education costing £18,000-a-year, twice the standard British university tuition fees. Read more...

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19 janvier 2013

Invest in an MBA student and earn 5%

By Patrick Collinson. An innovative scheme allows investors to back bright students who are an excellent credit risk and have an exceptionally low default rate. Every year some of the world's brightest young adults start MBAs at top institutions such as Insead in Paris, Harvard and the London Business School. Many go on to run multinational corporations, earning huge salaries. But just as many struggle to find loans to cover the cost of a one-year programme, which can be around £60,000. Into the gap has stepped an innovative scheme, Prodigy Finance, which links tomorrow's business leaders with today's savers desperate to earn better interest.
MBA students at the top schools typically earn more than £70,000 a year after graduating, yet face unique problems finding the money to study. For example, an American going to Oxford's Said Business School is likely to be turned down for a loan by a British bank because he or she won't have a credit record in the UK. The same goes for a Brit heading to Harvard or Insead. The American or French bank won't have a clue how to score them. Read more...

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19 janvier 2013

Oxford college sued over using 'selection by wealth' for admissions

By Daniel Boffey. Student takes St Hugh's to court after after being rejected for not having access to £21,000 for tuition fees and living costs. An Oxford college is being sued for discriminating against poorer students applying to study for postgraduate courses. St Hugh's, which was founded in 1886, is being taken to court for choosing applicants not just on academic merit, but also on their ability to prove they can pay tens of thousands of pounds for tuition fees and living expenses.
It is claimed that, along with other Oxford colleges, St Hugh's is "selecting by wealth" in asking students with a conditional place at the university to demonstrate that they hold funds to cover tuition fees, plus at least £12,900 a year for living costs. The university refuses to take into account projected earnings from students who plan to carry out paid work during their course and has only one means-tested scholarship available. Read more...

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19 janvier 2013

Higher tuition fees caused 'wild swings' in student numbers, figures show

By Rebecca Ratcliffe. Some institutions have reported big drop in enrolments while others have expanded, according to Ucas statistics. The introduction of higher fees last autumn caused "wild and dangerous swings" in enrolments at UK universities, statistics have revealed.
The number of students starting degree courses fell 12% when fees of up to £9,000 were introduced last year, but figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) show that some institutions' cohorts expanded last October as they took advantage of a new policy allowing them to take unlimited numbers of students achieving at least AAB grades at A-level. Read more...

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19 janvier 2013

Taylor Branch, Prize-Winning Historian, to Teach MOOC on Civil-Rights Era

By Jake New. The author and historian Taylor Branch spent nearly 25 years exploring and writing about the civil-rights era, and the result was a popular trilogy of books, America in the King Years, one of which won a Pulitzer Prize. This semester Mr. Branch will share his knowledge of the period by teaching a course at the University of Baltimore and opening it up to outsiders on the Web as a massive open online course, or MOOC.
The course, which starts on January 23, is built around his new book, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, and will include face-to-face instruction with 20 University of Baltimore students, along with up to 100 auditors who will tune in online at no charge. Read more...

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19 janvier 2013

eCornell Offers a MOOC That Steers Students to a Paid Follow-Up

By Katherine Mangan. Cornell University’s online spinoff is moving into MOOCs, with a free marketing course in its hospitality program starting on Tuesday. But the program will be designed to steer students toward a follow-up course for $1,200 to get a professional certificate.
The free online course, “Marketing the Hospitality Brand Through New Media: Social, Mobile, and Search,” is being offered by eCornell. It’s geared toward people working in sales, marketing, and financial positions in the hospitality industry, and is being taught by Robert J. Kwortnik and William Carroll, faculty members at Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration. The school has been offering online courses through eCornell since 2002, but this is the first one that is being pitched as a massive open online course, or MOOC. Cornell officials hope the class will attract thousands of students. Read more...

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19 janvier 2013

Private Equity Steps Into the International-Student Market

By Goldie Blumenstyk. One more sign that colleges and companies see the financial possibilities of the international-student market: A British company that helps to bring students from China and other countries to campuses in the United States and other English-speaking nations has announced an investment of more than $100-million from a private-equity firm.
The seven-year-old company, INTO University Partnerships, is known for the “pathways” programs it runs at Oregon State University and 15 other colleges and universities. INTO will distribute some of the investment, from Leeds Equity Partners, to its private shareholders and use the rest to help expand its business. Read more...

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19 janvier 2013

Near-Term Outlook Is Bleak for All of Higher Education, Moody’s Says

By Don Troop. Across-the-board pressure on all of the revenue sources that support higher education has prompted Moody’s Investors Service to issue a negative short-term outlook for the entire sector in a report issued on Wednesday.
“It basically means that there’s nowhere to hide, even for diversified market leaders, the top-tier universities,” said Eva Bogaty, the credit-rating agency’s assistant vice president and analyst who wrote the report. For the past two years, research universities have escaped criticism from Moody’s because of their diverse sources of revenue. However, state-government appropriations, investment earnings, gifts, research grants, and patient-care reimbursements are all facing economic pressure, the report says. Read more...

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