FOR-PROFIT

Ryan Craig: American Clampdown Forcing Forlorn For-Profit Colleges To Look Abroad

Domestic Education Quality For-Profit Friend, Fraud, or Fishy Graduate International Private Public Regulatory Universities & Colleges Jan 14, 6:00

    Although American for-profit institutions have been around since the 19th century, until the 1980s and 1990s they lived the quiet, unassuming lives of vocational or trade schools. As such, the “for-profit university” is nearly as young in the U.S. as in Brazil. The difference is that Brazilian for-profits are perceived as no different from Brazil’s equally young private universities whereas American for-profits are viewed as on a different planet from the august private universities that now constitute the firmament of American higher education.

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TECHNOLOGY

Infographic: How Learning Management Startups & Giants Split The LMS Pie

Domestic Infographics K-12 Learning Management Systems (LMS / CMS) OER - Open Educational Resources Startups Universities & Colleges Jan 17, 8:30

    Learning Management Systems help universities, faculty and students stay organized. One of the fastest growing software sectors over the last decade, it is now a billion dollar plus industry with hundreds of competing offerings. Below is a look the most popular options as measured by a combination of their total number of customers, active users, and online presence.

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POLICY

Guest Columnist Anne Collier On The Power Of Literacy & Education In Kenya

Continuing Education Education Quality Emerging Ethics Minorities Jan 17, 8:04

    Check out the amazing documentary A Small Act about Kenyan Chris Mburu, a UN human rights lawyer, wanting to give young Kenyans the education opportunities he had because of the sponsorship of a retired Swedish schoolteacher and Holocaust survivor, Hilde Back (Mburu started the Hilde Back foundation). In the film, he said that, for many Kenyan children, “education is survival.” It’s not “only” a matter of having better prospects, he said. If we’re educated, we can’t be exploited – or at least, we reduce the likelihood.

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Ryan Craig: American Clampdown Forcing Forlorn For-Profit Colleges To Look Abroad

Domestic Education Quality For-Profit Graduate International Private Public Regulatory Universities & Colleges Jan 14, 6:00

    Although American for-profit institutions have been around since the 19th century, until the 1980s and 1990s they lived the quiet, unassuming lives of vocational or trade schools. As such, the “for-profit university” is nearly as young in the U.S. as in Brazil. The difference is that Brazilian for-profits are perceived as no different from Brazil’s equally young private universities whereas American for-profits are viewed as on a different planet from the august private universities that now constitute the firmament of American higher education.

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