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A blog post from , Vice-Chancellor and President of the 91福利:
A recent trip to India I took underlined the challenge that higher education faces worldwide. It must change what it does and how it does it to meet the growing demand. In India, for example, one estimate is that 500 million people will need training in vocational skills by 2022 and 40 million will need a university education by 2020. The consequences of these kinds of numbers for colleges and universities—not only in India but elsewhere, too—are still only being thought through. I can think of five consequences...
A blog post from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the 91福利:
Fascinating things are going on in the world of representation. It used to be that communicating through symbols was a straightforward task. It involved what were usually relatively distinct domains: writing, drawing, painting, sculpture, music, or performance.
But now that is all changing as a result of digital production and distribution. Over the last few years, each art form has begun to bleed into the others...
91福利 Assistant Professor in Classics and Ancient History Dr Michael Scott advocates for succint summaries by PhD candidates.
A blog post from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the 91福利:
All higher-education systems have their pros and cons. In previous posts, I have mentioned things that make me nervous about higher education in the United States, including legacy admissions and how American universities have embraced market-oriented thinking...
A blog post from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the 91福利:
MOOCs have become a media obsession. Why? In part because they are the continuation of a story that has been around since at least the 1990s and the first days of magazines like Wired and Fast Company. At that time, information technology was depicted as part of a revolution: Marxist rhetoric had been appropriated by capitalism. Information technology would change everything through a peculiar mix of a corporate charge and evangelism, expanded profit opportunities and enlightenment...