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Higher education in India is moving ahead on the global stage.

Linways Technologies

in 2014-15 to 26.3 India has seen a massive expansion in the higher education sector – an almost four-fold increase in enrolments and institutions since 2001. Between 1996 and 2001, India and China had similar GERs. To address the skills gap in fresh hires, many companies are forced to invest in lengthy training programmes.

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Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

The Hechinger Report

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. Working in the gig economy as a contractor with a ride-share company precludes the kinds of deep relationships that lead to professional advancement.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: Gaps in financial aid, funding contribute to growing number of Georgians with college loans and no college degree

The Hechinger Report

State spending on the University System of Georgia fell from more than $15,000 per student in 2001 to about $6,000 during the recession, adjusted for inflation, and has only climbed back to about $8,000, Suggs’ analyses found. “I During the 2013-2014 school year, USG institutions awarded $28.8 million in need-based aid. He withdrew.

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Global Collaboration Week Begins - Find a Project and Connect!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DIRECTIONS: Step 1: Join us at the online meeting room on Zoom ([link] Step 2: We are going to play a Kahoot game to learn some things about Amazon. The moderators of this session represent communities that have been meeting and collaborating online for well over a decade now. Stevens (2014, p.162)

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In charter-school oversight, as in foreign affairs: Trust, but verify

The Hechinger Report

Eight board members are currently CEOs, seven have founded non-profits, and 11 have founded companies. “Success Academy’s board members and supporters are among the most sophisticated and highly respected business men and women in the world,” they wrote. Collectively, they manage more than $103 billion in assets.”.

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Education Technology, Betsy DeVos, and the Innovation Gospel

Hack Education

The Center for American Progress also took a look “Inside the Financial Holdings of Billionaire Betsy DeVos,” and the list of education- and tech-related investments is long: KinderCare Education, the childcare company. Theranos, the troubled blood-testing company. The for-profit college company Sextant Education.