Category: Higher education

19/10/2017

This was a comment on on the political question of our time by Janesh Ganash in the FT, but to…

17/10/2017

This was a quote from an article by an ex-lawyer who got into tech and writing about tech. Now some…

16/10/2017

There are now more demands and requirements placed on higher education institutions than ever before. It’s an unlikely truism, but…

12/10/2017

Phil McNaull, director of finance at the University of Edinburgh and chair of the British Universities Finance Directors Group, says…

06/10/2017

Students pay $300 or more for textbooks explaining that in competitive markets the price of a good should fall to…

05/10/2017

Just last week, when faced with a report that its advertising numbers promised an American audience that, in certain demographics,…

02/10/2017

Public Domain, Link I dislike LMS (learning management systems). There are lots of reasons for this, but chief is that…

28/09/2017

I now add the phrase “learning outcomes” to the list of words and phrases that should never be used, along…

13/09/2017

The developers can get away with such things, because student housing doesn’t officially classify as housing. It falls into the…

08/09/2017

“It’s not that the undergraduate education is better at Ivies than at other private universities. (In fact, Ivies almost certainly…