HEPI is today launching a short paper, Why the OBR’s forecasts on students must improve, that questions the Office for Budget Responsibility’s predictions of future student numbers. More...
26 décembre 2017
26 décembre 2017
On average, graduates have few reasons to regret obtaining a degree and more reasons to be cheerful
We have conducted the biggest survey of student wellbeing annually since 2014. We have consistently found students to be less happy and more anxious, on average, than both the rest of the population and young people overall. They are living away from home for the first time, confronting new ways of learning and worried about their future prospects. More...
25 décembre 2017
Cengage Unlimited Draws the Battle Lines in the Curricular Materials War
As Phil wrote about recently, Cengage has announced "Cengage Unlimited," which is being described in various outlets as the "Netflix" or "Spotify" of curricular materials. It's an all-you-can-eat digital subscription service to Cengage's complete catalog. Spotify is probably the more apt comparison, both because the Netflix analogy is contaminated and because the music industry is a more apt analogy for the economic pressure this puts on content creators. More...
25 décembre 2017
Pearson Open Sources Equella—Properly
Not too long ago, Pearson contributed the Equella software to the Apereo Foundation as open source software.1 Equella, which both Pearson and Apereo refer to as a "digital repository," might have been called a Learning Object Repository (LOR) in a previous era (and probably was called that back then). More...
25 décembre 2017
Cengage Unlimited – Marketing ploy or significant change in strategy?
One week ago Cengage announced Unlimited, an all-you-can-read subscription for their digital course materials. For $120 per academic term, students get access to any and all of Cengage's 20,000 digital titles with the ability to also get a print rental for $7.99 (shipping costs) per title. Once the subscription ends, students keep access to up to six digital textbooks for another year at no additional cost. More...
25 décembre 2017
Cengage Unlimited Textbook Author Update
The Textbook & Academic Authors Association has a blog post up exploring the implications of author royalties that I raised in in my last post on the subject. Here are some of the highlights. More...
25 décembre 2017
Somalis Leaving Kenya Face Educational Roadblocks
As students in Kenya’s education system sat this year for exams necessary to advance to higher grades or graduate with a high school diploma, thousands of Somali refugees couldn’t participate, even though they had also taken classes and studied hard. More...
25 décembre 2017
Pakistan-Educated Afghans: Refugees in Their Own Home
A recent graduate with a degree in economics from a top private business school in Pakistan, Shamsur Jabarkhel spends his days scouring the Internet for job openings. Yet he has been unable to land a job in Afghanistan, his newly adopted country and the birthplace of his parents. More...
25 décembre 2017
In a Refugee Camp, Classrooms Open Up to Somali Girls
“Who said girls from Somalia cannot go to school and achieve their dreams?”. More...
25 décembre 2017
Report Shows Arab World’s Differing Opinions on Freedom of Expression
Countries around the world have experienced a significant decrease in freedom of speech over the past ten years, and the Middle East is leading the trend, say two recent reports on the subject. More...
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