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
International The Structure of Instructure | As the LMS provider prepares to go public, financial disclosures show the company has spent on sales and marketing at a much higher rate than competitors — but has rapid growth to show for it. No crisis, no need for higher fees, says UNSWContinue Reading
Of Advocates and Entrepreneurs Michael B. Horn, “a top proponent of higher-ed disruption,” stepped down from his position as director at the nonprofit, nonpartisan Clayten Christensen Institute, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on October 12. In a blog post announcing his decision, Horn indicated his intention to “work onContinue Reading
