Category: Higher education

01/04/2014

Yet Coursera, which has raised at least US$65 million in investment capital, still faces the challenge of generating enough revenue…

30/03/2014

A couple of things interested me in the Times Higher this week. Echoes of memes I have come across before,…

14/03/2014

Hennessy noted that universities are conservative institutions and are often reluctant or slow to change. But, he said, "They must…

09/03/2014

A long, long time ago, I was sitting in the biochemistry coffee room in the medical school in Newcastle. Roger…

05/03/2014

I am really enjoying Derek Bok's most recent book, 'Higher Education in America'. The tone is always mild and diplomatic,…

05/03/2014

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21/02/2014

“As an educational leader if the outcomes that I am offering are [just] information and knowledge, then I am screwed,”…

18/02/2014

It would have been possible for Wiseman to tilt his documentary toward an indictment of the administrators who are presiding…

12/02/2014

I keep reading a different meaning into the term UCONN that that which I am sure is intended by the…

09/02/2014

Put differently, public higher education struggles to the extent that it’s trying to create a middle class for a country…