Now a full-blown race to become the dominant MOOC is well underway, with Coursera, World Education University, Udacity, edX and many others competing for critical mass and first-mover advantage.
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So that the college, the heads of the college, decided that they would get together, they had focus groups, they hired some high priced marketing executives and they wanted a college name, a higher education university name that would be very attractive.
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It operates through a partnership among the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, the Simon Fraser University Library, the School of Education at Stanford University, and the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University.
This includes Professor Richard Pring, head of education at Oxford University, Dr Anne West, director of the Centre for Education Research at the London School of Economics and Professor Clyde Chitty, head of education at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
She acknowledged the professional contribution by the Department of Special Education, University of Punjab, Lahore, for preparing first draft of the toolkit on Inclusive Education.
If you listen to the pronouncements of public officials, people involved in education - university presidents, university executives - people in the not-for-profit sector, when they talk about higher education there is less and less reference - fewer and fewer references made to the public good that comes from higher education or comes from a populace a larger and larger proportion of whom have access to higher education.
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In the 2010-2011 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Oxford and Cambridge rank similarly to Harvard and Princeton.
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Not one Italian institution is in the top 100 of the 2008 Times Higher Education world university rankings.
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Bown, Emeritus Professor of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Glasgow (United Kingdom).
But the skills and expertise shortage is worrying more than just jaded bureaucrats at the Education and University Affairs ministries.
Dorothy Ann Dobson, Assistant director, Department of Physical Education, University of Dundee.
Marie Lall is a South Asia specialist at the Institute of Education, University of London, and an associate fellow at Chatham House.
If, because a country spends more on higher education, university attendance rises from 20% to 22% of the 18-21 age group, will the economy grow faster as a result?
The UK has the second highest teenage pregnancy rate in the industrialised world, behind only the US, said Prof Reiss of the Institute of Education, University of London, and Prof Halstead, of Plymouth University.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings employ 13 separate performance indicators, which it says makes it the only world rankings to examine all the core missions of the modern global university - research, teaching, knowledge transfer and international activity.
During the workshop James Keevy of the South African Qualifications Authority and Poonam Batra, Professor of Education, Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi will assist participants in the reflection on conceptual and methodological approaches to developing frameworks of qualifications and certifications, pathways in defining standards of professional competence, among other topics.
"The big difference is between potential talent and realized talent, " said Carolyn Callahan, a professor of education at the University of Virginia who specializes in gifted education.
Graduates already paid more tax through income tax, insisted Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman Margaret Smith, who said access to university education should be based on "ability to learn, not ability to pay".
The problem, according to the Education for Employment Foundation (EFE), is that university education does not match employment needs.
This week, Charles Clarke, the education secretary, and Margaret Hodge, the minister for higher education, have been stressing the financial value of a university education and questioning the morality of forcing those without a degree to pay for the education of high-earners with one.
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Earlier this week, Times Higher Education ran a big story on the apparent decline in the relative economic returns to university education.
In the custom executive education sphere, Duke University's Duke Corporate Education, IMD of Switzerland and London Business School are ranked highly by the FT.
Over the next decade, more than 60% of all new jobs will require a college education, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
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Jagdesh GudaraProfessor Jagdish Gundara is an Emeritus Professor of Education, Institute of Education at the University of London.
Ayers, 63, is now a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The U.S. also pioneered innovations in university education, land ownership, home ownership and individual rights.
Mauritius, the second-highest-ranked Sub-Saharan economy, also scores poorly on university education and labour markets.
The conclusions you draw about university education are your own and won't necessarily be Howard Hotson's.
The British government should cease paying for the university education of able students from poor families.
Second, some governments can readily cut the cost of university education without harming quality.
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