At the recent Eduventures Summit Virtual Research Forum, I presented an eye-popping chart showing the longstanding surge in higher education instructional and student services spend this century. Instructional spend at public four-year schools grew 140%, but student...
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The Non-Degree Graduate Boom: Chasing the Competition
“360,316 already enrolled.” It is big numbers like this—featured on the homepage of the 10-course Data Science “specialization” from Johns Hopkins University and many others offered by other schools on Coursera, the giant MOOC platform, that both substantiate and...
Responding to the Tech Skills Gap: Build, Buy, Partner… or Don’t
“America is facing a workforce crisis with implications for economic competitiveness and national defense,” according to STEMconnector’s recent report covering the tech skills gap. “Some estimate up to 2.4 million STEM jobs go unfilled.” While traditional colleges and...
LinkedOut: The Middle-Skills Prospect Riddle
Question: How will employers fill the growing vacancies for jobs requiring middle-skills – those needing at least a high school diploma but less than a bachelor’s degree, accounting for about 24% of the U.S. workforce?Answer: Not through LinkedIn.For Frank Britt, CEO...
Higher Education Predictions for 2020: Recession, Certificates, and Computer Science
Every year I stick my neck out and make some higher education predictions, and 12 months later I review how I did.
High School Graduates: New England Challenges Conventional Wisdom
“Just one more question.” At the end of an Eduventures advising session with a university client, the vice president of enrollment said something intriguing. “The presidents’ cabinets have long been familiar with data showing falling high school graduates in our state...