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20 million more graduates needed in the USA

Carnavale, A. and Rose, S. (2011) The Undereducated American Washington DC: Georgetown University Centre n Education and the Workforce This short report by two prestigious...

How Britain is moving to the privatization of higher education

Shepherd, J. (2011) Private university BPP launches bid to run 10 publicly funded counterparts Guardian Newspaper, June 21 BPP, a subsidiary of the Apollo Group, which...

Online learning in the Garden of Eden

Daniel, J. (2011)  20 Years of Distance Education in the Garden of EDEN: Good News and Bad News EDEN 20th Anniversary Conference: Learning and Sustainability:...

Mobile learning devices, and some Canadian players

  Kim, J. (2011) A mobile learning platform matrix Inside Higher Education, June 13 A simple matrix that compares the pros and cons of full laptops,...

Tuition costs vs middle class income in the USA

  Censky, A, (2011) Surging college costs price out middle class CNN Money, June 13 Drawing on data from the IRS and the College Board, this...

Unleashing web 2.0 for African learning

Kasumuni, L. (2011) Unleashing web 2.0 for African Learning, eLearning Africa News Portal, June 8 The e-Learning Africa conference goes from strength to strength, emphasising...

Trends in Canadian higher education

AUCC (2011) Trends in Higher Education: Vol. 1, Enrolment Ottawa: AUCC This publication of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada is packed full...

Is e-learning the food-bank of education?

  Bitti, M. T. (2011) Student loans a hard lesson National Post, June 4 This article provides some sobering statistics about student debt in Canada: $26,680 Average...

Recommendations for a new Ontario Online Institute

  The final recommendations for an Ontario Online Institute are now published. Tucked away on the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities 'In the...

For-profits, student loans, new rules, and how these affect students in the USA, Canada...

For profits are in the news again for several reasons. The Obama administration has produced new rules that determine whether for-profit institutions will qualify for...