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Trends in Higher Education
“The Society for College and University Planning publishes this environmental scanning report as one outcome of routine work which informs our board of directors. We share this in the interest of providing our members and the broader higher education community with an ongoing analysis of trends that affect integrated planning in institutions. For your convenience, trends are categorized as Demographics, Economy, Environment, Global Education, Learning, Politics, and Technology. Within each category we share some facts from our environmental scanning and we also share with you some of our thoughts about the implications of those facts…” [more]
A Worldwide Test for Higher Education?
“For much of the last year or two, debate has raged among American higher education officials and state and federal policy makers about the wisdom and practicality of creating a system that would allow for public comparison of how successfully individual colleges and/or programs are educating their students…” [more]
Program for International Student Assessment
“Are students well prepared for future challenges? Can they analyse, reason and communicate effectively? Do they have the capacity to continue learning throughout life? The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) answers these questions and more, through its surveys of 15-year-olds in the principal industrialised countries. Every three years, it assesses how far students near the end of compulsory education have acquired some of the knowledge and skills essential for full participation in society…” [more]
Education at a Glance 2007
“The 2007 edition of Education at a Glance enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ performance. It provides a rich, comparable and up-to-date array of indicators on the performance of education systems. The indicators look at who participates in education, what is spent on it and how education systems operate and at the results achieved. The latter includes indicators on a wide range of outcomes, from comparisons of student’s performance in key subject areas to the impact of education on earnings and on adults’ chances of employment….” [more]
Facelifts for the Facebook Generation
“Web sites aren’t about throwing some text and pictures onto a page anymore. Colleges, catching on to the evolving online habits of their prospective students, are starting to wise up — and that often means making their online presence more appealing to Facebook-surfing high schoolers…”
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