International The Slow Death of the University | Stanford and MIT, after all, provided the very models of the entrepreneurial university. What has emerged in Britain, however, is what one might call Americanization without the affluence — the affluence, at least, of the American private educational sector. China Turns toContinue Reading
International TEF metrics plan attacked by academics | (UK) Leading academics have signed an open letter warning that it would be “completely inappropriate” to use data on student outcomes to measure university teaching standards. Higher education is in crisis: Pityana | Former University of South Africa Vice-Chancellor, Professor Barney Pityana,Continue Reading
Global Go forth and multiply | FOREIGN universities crave access to India’s booming higher-education market. Less well known is how some Indian institutions are venturing overseas. Moving access from the margins to the mainstream | What is the common denominator that binds universities and university systems across the world? ItContinue Reading
Global The Language of Learning Outcomes: Definitions and Assessments | Learning outcomes – what students should know or be able to do at the completion of a course or program – are rapidly replacing credit hours as the preferred unit of measurement for postsecondary learning. But assessment has yet toContinue Reading
Global OECD’s Dirk Van Damme says debate on Ahelo was ‘low quality’ | University leaders’ fears over the quality of their institutions is “not a valid excuse” for rejecting new measurements of teaching and learning, according to an education expert at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). U.S.Continue Reading
