International Andreas Schleicher: ‘we will live through time’ when universities are judged on graduate learning | Universities around the world will one day be compared on what their graduates learn and will “compete for superior approaches to teaching”, just as schools do thanks to the Programme for International Student AssessmentContinue Reading
International Defining ‘internationalisation at home’ | In recent discussions on the internationalisation of higher education, the constant introduction of new terms and definitions has rightly been criticised. White students gain less from higher education, UK Engagement Survey suggests | White students report lower levels of skill development than undergraduates fromContinue Reading
International OECD: England gets extra spending under £9K fees – and world’s most expensive public universities | England’s higher education spending increased in the first year of £9,000 tuition fees and its financing system allowed it to “raise spending in difficult times”, unlike European rivals, but the country has theContinue Reading
International ‘MOOCs, High Technology and Higher Learning’ | Based on the early projections and proclamations of the MOOC advocates mostly tied to venture capital and likely driven by profit, the MOOC movement has been and is a flop… When a select group of professors described their ambition to “democratize higherContinue Reading
International Uganda: Are African Private Universities As Pitiable As Portrayed Abroad? | Last week, a staff at the University of Southampton sent me an article titled ‘Africa’s teaching shops: the rise of private universities’ by Chris Havergal published in the Times Higher Education magazine in the UK. Let’s have theContinue Reading
