For preventing higher education institutions in America, from being burdened by tuition-dependency and “small” endowments, and for making higher education beneficial to its students. In November, 2015, Moody’s Investors Service released its latest melancholy forecast for tuition-dependent, private non-profit colleges and universities: “It’s going to be another year of lacklusterContinue Reading
International Are universities making the most of their big data? | The UK’s higher education system is renowned globally for its high-quality provision, student experience and world-class research. Now there is an opportunity for the sector to shift into another realm – by using the data it constantly collects fromContinue Reading
Standing Next to a Mountain Vox recently published a piece in its Business and Finance section speculating on the conditions in which “online instruction could begin to overtake traditional higher education” from the perspective of Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, in 2030. Alexander Holt, a policy analyst with the EducationContinue Reading
International A realistic model for international universities | The New Flagship University model put forward by John Douglass from the University of California, Berkeley, in his new book is not only timely, but also a well thought-out initiative. Who are the spongers now? | A curious inversion has taken placeContinue Reading
Clouds Institutional researchers oversee a bounty of information stored in student information systems and enterprise resource planning systems of colleges and universities. Yet, there is little guidance to enable IR practitioners to collectively organize their respective institutions into a large array for the systematic measurement of student success and “whatContinue Reading
