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International Manuel Castells – Inspiring fundamental change | Building on the scholarly contribution of great thinkers like Humboldt and Clark Kerr, Castells analyses the evolution of the four key functions performed by universities. The first one is ideological, reflecting the traditional role of transmitting the values that help legitimise theContinue Reading

Cover | Outsourcing Student Success

The first institutional researchers took many of the necessary steps to establish standards for a community to study higher education “just as scientific investigation in the natural or social sciences.” Today, however, significant associations like the National Association of System Heads (NASH) and the American Council on Education (ACE) doContinue Reading

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International Free higher education has created no crisis – ANCYL | Contrary to the doomsayers, doubters and beneficiaries of commodification of education who characterize access to free tertiary education as a cost, the ANCYL is resolute that this is a necessary investment which in a long term will contribute towardsContinue Reading

Cover | Outsourcing Student Success

Almost fifty years of continuous institutional research at colleges and universities, as well as statewide, built a comprehensive portfolio of research and scholarship. Heading into the 1960s, institutional researchers and their like-minded colleagues among accreditors and other professional associations greatly extended the scope of activities for the study of higherContinue Reading

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International How to unlock the potential of Canada’s skilled work force | The latest census release suggests that Canada should have a big competitive advantage in today’s information-driven global economy. That’s because 54 per cent of Canadians betwen the ages of 25 and 64 have college or university qualifications, aContinue Reading