Digests

International The Time to Reform India’s Education System is Now | The writing is on the wall. India’s higher education system is in crisis and everyone is paying a hefty price for it: students, parents, industry, society and the nation. Looming crisis over university student fee hike plan | Kenya’sContinue Reading

Search for a Paradigm

“More profoundly, Tyrrell entertained no illusion about the particularity of an institution of higher education, “the center of confluence for many social forces.” In Tyrrell’s nascent theory, the institution is most definitely not an object, a prison house of institutional research, but a field that unites cultural and material phenomenaContinue Reading

VLA Full Array - 02 | Image courtesy of NRAO/AUI

“[E]very student has an array of different probabilities of success that varies for every institution in the country. Little is known how these differential probabilities of success are distributed across institutions because opposition to institutional accountability and multi-institutional research has effectively constrained institutional research to the local outcomes at particularContinue Reading

Digests

International Essential forum for higher education institutions in the Middle East to improve education quality, institution global standing and student employability in the region | With the theme ‘Creating a dynamic and competitive higher education sector in the Middle East’, the event will host lively dialogue around structuring competitive curriculumContinue Reading

Digests

International Dr. John Hattie: Assessment should measure teachers’ impact | Of course, every kid is unique in that sense and all education needs to be personalized, but “personalized education” doesn’t mean “individualized.” A lot of kids learn dramatically well from other students, so the mistake often with personalized education isContinue Reading