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The Role of Information Technology in an Age of Access, Affordability and Accountability
October 25, 2007 |
Educause 2007 - Thursday 25 October
Presenters: Robert W Mendenhall –President Westerns Governors University, Charlene Nunley – President Emerita Montgomery College; David Ward – President American Council on Education
A panel discussion based around the Spellings Report of 2006, a report commissioned by Margaret Spellings US Secretary of Education ‘A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of US Higher Education’
The report seems to revolve around the sorts of issues that affect the UK – access to higher education, questions around the affordability of HE for students, as well as the issue of the quality of HE provision.
The report still generates a debate and some recent areas of progress include:
· Hundreds of U.S. colleges are using standardized student-achievement tests, allowing comparisons between institutions, while investigating options for creating more such tests.
· Several major college groups are set to outline in coming weeks projects in which their members will post to their Web sites specific performance-related data to allow direct comparisons between institutions.
· Congress, with broad bipartisan backing, this month approved the largest increase in federal student aid since the GI Bill in 1944.
(Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 September 2007)
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