Robert Pearl Starks

The Times Higher Education published the world university rankings for 2013 and discuss how the rankings are used by different stakeholders and why certain countries are rising in the rankings while others have fallen.  The world rankings are discussed as an important report because of the correlation between higher education and economic development and are one indicator of how well countries are performing in preparing students for the Knowledge Economy.

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Editor Kevin Kevin presents the final video in a four-part series of interviews with Diana Oblinger, President and CEO of EDUCAUSE. Diana talks with Kevin about the future of education and how innovation will change how we educate.

Prospective students, parents and policy makers want to know if their investment in higher education will produce a return and they are looking at graduate employment outcomes (placement) for the answer. As institutions consider how to continuously improve graduate employment outcomes, 3 key ideas to keep in mind are shared below:

1. Rethink Career Services – Rather than thinking of Career Services as a department or the “back-end” of a process for preparing students to enter the workforce, rethink career services as a systemic set of strategically designed interventions woven into the fabric of the institution.  How might “career services”
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Employee retention is important to organizations for many reasons. There are well-known costs associated with employee turnover including financial costs attributed to acquiring new talent, the loss of intellectual capital when an experienced, highly-skilled employee leaves and diminished company morale which has an impact on customer service and performance. Although managers tend to know the importance of employee retention, there are 3 myths managers tend to have that must be busted. Those myths are...

Myth 1: Employee Retention Means Holding on to Employees Forever - Employee retention means keeping good employees for the most appropriate amount of time for… >>>

Editor Kevin Kevin presents the third video in a four-part series of interviews with Diana Oblinger, President and CEO of EDUCAUSE. Diana talks with Kevin about our education system and whether or not it's open for change. 

California's Lt. Govornor Gavin Newsom and Udacity's Sebastian Thrun discuss the future of higher education at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013.

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Chip Cutter, Editor for LinkedIn Today, spoke with Gavin Newsom,  Lieutenant Governor of California, at TechCrunch Disrupt SF about how technology can help fix broken education systems in the US.  

In his weekly address published in late August, President Obama notes that while college education has never been more important, it has also never been more expensive, which is why he proposed major new reforms to make college more affordable for middle class families and those fighting to get into the middle class.

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