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Dirty Tricks in US For-Profit Education

In: Tertiary Education

16 Jul 2010

Some of my left of centre readers will assume that for-profit educators have been involved in the dirty tricks, but it’s a bit more complex. Sure, there are arguments going on about whether some US for-profit colleges are recruiting homeless people and luring people into large debts, and they’re legitimate issues to explore, but this story is [...]

International News 12/7

In: Policy

12 Jul 2010

Every once in a while I have too many interesting stories from overseas sitting in my bookmarks, so it’s time to share.

English UK, a body representing English language schools, have won a High Court battle over entry restrictions. The previous Labour government required people to have a higher level of English before they came into [...]

Prioritising Resources in California

In: Policy

5 Jul 2010

I thought a recent blog post from the New America Foundation (seems centre-left but open-minded to other ideas from a quick look) had some familiar points to our ACE discussions and, less directly, the focus of ITPs.
Current (community college) students are scrambling to get the classes they need, often winding up on discouragingly long waiting lists, and many new [...]

Get Better – A Message for Students

In: Students

2 Jul 2010

While policy wonks (me included) wring our hands about young people not in employment, education or training and Stuart Middleton readies his 100th column on the topic (you know I love you Stuart!), maybe there’s a better way to get across the message to those young people. dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip have put [...]

Degrees of Retail – Wal-Mart and Harrods

In: Tertiary Education

2 Jul 2010

Wal-Mart and Harrods are at different ends of the retailing spectrum and both are starting to offer degrees to their staff.
The Harrods story wouldn’t even have made the news without the Harrods name. They’re working with Anglia Ruskin University and are paying staff fees for a customised verison of the University’s business degree – the University [...]

OMG, Lawyers are Cheating!

In: Students| Universities

22 Jun 2010

Just read a New York Times story about Loyola Law School Los Angeles retroactively increasing grades by 0.333 to make their students more competitive in the job market. About 10 law schools have recently made their marking schedules more lenient as part of a suite of measures to improve the employability of students. I support [...]

News 14/6 – New CPIT CEO & Honey Dispute

In: Facilities & Equipment| Funding| Government on Industry| ITPs| PTEs| Research| Students| Universities

14 Jun 2010

New CPIT CEO SkillsTech Australia director Kay Giles (pictured at left) will be the new CEO of CPIT, starting on August 9. She has headed the 10-campus Brisbane TAFE since Oct 2007, according to The Press, but the SkillsTech website puts it at 8 sites and Oct 08. SkillsTech is apparently the largest provider of trade [...]

An idea for student loans

In: Funding

20 May 2010

Access to federal student loans by for-profit institutions is an ongoing issue of debate in the US. Their default rates tend to be higher because (a) fees, and therefore loans, are much higher without state/federal subsidies (b) the target market is older and has lower completion rates than your average high school graduate (c) some of [...]

Universities Have Great Idea

In: Universities

12 May 2010

The NZVCC have just announced a great initiative, along with Business NZ, TEC and the University Commercialisation Office of NZ. As you might have guessed by the participants, it’s all about business-university links.
UniServices, the commercialisation arm of the University of Auckland, is hosting an event to promote university innovation and technology in the health sector on [...]

Research that Matters: Beards and Robots

In: Tertiary Education

16 Apr 2010

Men with beards are more credible than clean-shaven men, according to a paper in the Journal of Marketing Communications. Bearded men were deemed to be more trustworthy and have more expertise when endorsing cellphones and toothpaste, but were slightly worse than clean shaven men for selling underwear.  The men in the study had neat, medium-length beards, [...]


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