Friday, 04 July 2008
Thursday, 03 July 2008
A New Round of MBA Student Attitude Research - Aspen Insitute
Click here for reports and webpage of "Where Will They Lead? 2008" Aspen Institute
Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education has just released two research reports on MBA student attitudes about the role of business in society:
The first surveyed 1943 students at 15 leading business schools in the U.S. , Canada and the U.K. Where Will They Lead? 2008 MBA Student Attitudes about Business & Society was released in April 2008.
The second surveyed 748 students attending leading business schools in China. Where Will They Lead? China 2008 MBA Student Attitudes about Business & Society was released in June, 2008.
Wednesday, 02 July 2008
IIE US Study Abroad white paper - meeting the US' global education challenge
Institute of International Education, US Study Abroad White Paper Series
(252 KB) Study Abroad White Paper, Issue 2:
Exploring Host Country Capacity for Increasing U.S. Study Abroad
The May 2008 IIE White Paper represents the second publication of the study abroad policy research series on Meeting America's Global Education Challenge. This new report highlights research and findings from a fall 2007 snapshot survey of over 500 host institutions abroad, and on the efforts made by these institutions to increase their host capacity for larger numbers of U.S. students. It also analyzes the challenges these institutions face as well as their motivations and strategic plans to undertake efforts toward internationalization. The report aims to provide policy makers and international education administrators with focused data on how host institutions and countries perceive greatly expanding U.S. study abroad participation.
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
100+ Resources for Teaching Without Textbooks
100+
Resources for Teaching Without Textbooks, June 26th, 2008
Understanding How Students Respond to Technology
Before you can toss out the textbook and replace it with technology tools, you’ll need to understand how your students — whatever their age — respond to and work with technology.
- Assessing What Students Learn in Technology-Based Learning Environments: Read this report to understand what students gain from technology tools in the classroom.
- GT Prof: Students Learn Better Via iPod Versus Lecture: This article from Campus Technology cites a Georgia Tech professor who believes that iPods are more effective teaching tools for some students.
- Critical Issue: Using Technology to Improve Student Achievement: Chapters in this report include "Technology and Youth: Wired Schools and Wired Lives," and "Inclusion: Reaching All Students."
- Effects of Technology on Classrooms and Students: From change in student and teacher roles to more collaboration with peers, this report argues for using technology in the classroom.
- Students’ Evolving Use of Technology: This article considers a study of how college students use and benefit from information technology systems.
Monday, 30 June 2008
50 of the Most Dependable Web Resources for University Students
50 of the Most Dependable Web Resources for University Students, Educhoices, May 2008.
"Knowing where to turn for facts, handy web apps and other types of resources can make student life a lot easier. Read on for a list of 50 of the most useful and dependable online resources for college and university students.
Research Resources
The Internet is a great place to find information and check facts--if you know where to go. Here are 25 web resources that are known for being consistent, accurate and reliable.
1. Library of Congress - The nation's oldest federal cultural institution is also the largest library in the world. Some of the resources you will find here include historical documents, manuscripts, artwork, maps, photos, letters and film.
2. U.S. Census Bureau - The American FactFinder from the U.S. Census Bureau is an incredibly useful tool--particularly if you are looking for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.
3. CIA Library - The Central Intelligence Agency has a library, an online directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments, maps and a World Fact Book that offers information on countries all over the world.
4. STAT-USA - Part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, STAT-USA is an authoritative guide to business, trade, and economic information. You have to pay to use the service from home, but you can access it for free at any Federal Depository Library. etc".
Sunday, 29 June 2008
10,000 Women.org - Goldman Sachs to assist in their business-ed
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. plans to spend $100 million over the next five years to bring business education to 10,000 women around the world.
"Expanding the entrepreneurial talent and managerial pool in developing and emerging economies – especially among women – is one of the most important means to reducing inequality and ensuring more shared economic growth.
Launched by Goldman Sachs, 10,000 Women is a significant new initiative that will:
• Increase the number of underserved women receiving a business and management education
• Improve the quality and capacity of business and management education around the world
Learn more at 10000women.org
Press release: Goldman Sachs Launches 10,000 Women Initiative [PDF, 132 KB]
10,000 Women Fact Sheet [PDF, 216 KB]
10,000 Women Key Biographies [PDF, 51 KB]
Global Economic Research: Women Hold up Half the Sky
Corporate Engagement at Goldman Sachs [PDF, 112 KB]"
Saturday, 28 June 2008
Friday, 27 June 2008
How to choose your course as MBA's change with the times
Click here for the article of The Independent, 12 June 2008.
MBAs started a century ago – but the providers have learned to stay up to date. Midge Gillies reports
...The MBA has changed from something that most employers hadn't heard of to a qualification that many demand of their high-flying managers. MBAs used to be destined for jobs in consulting, banking, finance and a select group of international companies. Now MBAs are keen to work in public sector and not-for-profit jobs or as entrepreneurs...
Thursday, 26 June 2008
AcademyOne, Inc. promoting US student mobility
AcademyOne is simplifying student mobility and curriculum alignment between higher education institutions balancing pro-active and re-active methods.
www.collegetransfer.net supports students, institutions and state agencies improving coordination, outreach, guidance, recruiting, assessment and student success by bridging policies, practices and processes.
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Carrots, Sticks and Transfer - Bologna Process vs. US
Click here for the article of Inside Higher Ed, June 23rd 2008.
Before becoming a DC think tank person, I worked for the Indiana Senate, advising the chair of the State Budget Committee. Much of this job consisted of listening to people ask my boss for money.
...The United States is an unusually large nation populated by a restless citizenry prone to moving from place to place. Our higher education system is also unusually diverse and decentralized, with thousands of public and private institutions retaining the academic freedom to decide what kind of course credits they’ll accept from whom. As a result, the basic logistic challenges of managing student transfer are considerable. It’s hard for a given college to evaluate credits from a huge number of courses, departments, and institutions nationwide...
The result — a chaotic, inefficient transfer “system” that’s hardly a system at all — makes life very difficult for students who attend multiple institutions, as more and more do. What’s worse, many students don’t find out how many courses will be accepted for credit until after they transfer, so they can’t take ease of transfer into account when they decide where to go....
...The flawed U.S. transfer non-system has also persisted because, historically, it was still better than what students experienced elsewhere. But that, too, is changing. As the Institute for Higher Education’s Clifford Adelman found in his recent report on the Bologna Process, universities in Europe are poised to leapfrog the United States in ease of transfer, based on a process of deep, concurrent analysis of academic goals, degree qualifications and credit systems that goes far beyond what a harried registrar’s office in a U.S. institution could hope to accomplish one transcript at a time...
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
(MBA) Programs' green effort grows - WSJ
Click here for the article of The Wall Street Journal, May 30, 208.
Last June, Instituto de Empresa Business School launched EcologIE, an effort to reduce the school's carbon footprint. The Madrid campus started small, distributing recycling bins throughout buildings. But its aims, like those of many efforts under way at schools across Europe, are big: changing the mindset of future business leaders.
The activity is part of a burgeoning movement in which green is becoming much more than just the color of the U.S. dollar at many business schools. Environmentalism has become a buzzword, as M.B.A. programs across Europe introduce environmental elective courses, integrate sustainability issues into core offerings, support research projects on global-warming topics and try to make their campuses more energy efficient.
Will this embracing of the green agenda by business schools mean much in the overall scheme of things? To get a better understanding of the activity unfolding at campuses world-wide, we talked with Thomas Reid, international M.B.A. program adviser and director of Instituto de Empresa's new initiative. Here are edited excerpts:
For the answers click on above link.
The Wall Street Journal: Nearly a year after Instituto de Empresa launched its EcologIE initiative, what practical changes have been made and what is ahead?
Mr. Reid: In conjunction with the city of Madrid, we ....
WSJ: How does this newest effort fit into the school's broader approach to the environment?
WSJ: Some critics say business schools have been slow to embrace sustainability in course work and to assess how their own campuses could be greener. Is this criticism fair?
WSJ: Given the depth of pollution in booming economies like China and the gas-guzzling sport-utility-vehicle culture of the U.S., are campus efforts enough to make a difference to the world's potential ecological problems?
WSJ: How did this effort begin?
Monday, 23 June 2008
Shanghai Daily.com - Roundtable of CEIBS faculty
Click here for article of Shanghai Daily.com, 2008-6-18.
A THREE-HOUR deans' roundtable titled "The Future of Business Manage-ment Education in China and Around the World" was held at the China Europe International Business School Shanghai campus recently.
Hosted and moderated by Paul Danos, dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, the graduate school of management founded in 1900, these roundtables are part of Tuck's sustained international outreach program.
The frank discussion featured five deans from CEIBS in Shanghai, the Institute Empress in Spain, Fudan Management School, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School.
"Globalization is changing business education just as surely as it has changed international business. We'd like to know how education is developing in the world and explore places that we want to learn about," Danos said.
"There is no government control on what education will become. No American model is going to be the majority model globally. It is necessary that new models are adapted. That's why I initiated the event."
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Saturday, 21 June 2008
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time - Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey David Sachs (born November 5, 1954, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American economist known for his work as an economic advisor to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, Asia, and Africa.
He is currently a professor on the faculty at the School of International and Public Affairs and director of the Earth Institute, both at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2002 to 2006, he was Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Director of the UN Millennium Project.
He proposed "shock therapy" (though he himself dislikes the term) as a solution to the economic crises of Bolivia, Poland, and Russia. He is also known for his work with international agencies on problems of poverty reduction, debt cancellation, and disease control — especially HIV/AIDS, for the developing world. He advocated distribution of free insecticide-treated bed nets to combat malaria. He is the only academic to have been repeatedly ranked among the world's most influential people by Time magazine
Friday, 20 June 2008
BizSchoolJobsThursday, 19 June 2008
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Me And My MBA: A £2bn turnover in 10 years (Peter Cullum)
Click here for the article of The Independent, 12 June 2008.
Back in the Seventies, the insurance industry was very conservative,
recalls the insurance mogul Peter Cullum, 57. As a 24 year-old, he had
the audacity to challenge the received wisdom of the business world.
After 20 years spent working his way to the top of the mainstream insurance industry, resuscitating ailing companies en route, he decided it was time to do things his way. Towergate Partnership Ltd, which he founded in 1997 with some equally enterprising industry colleagues, has mushroomed into one of the UK's major providers of specialist insurance. In doing so, Cullum has amassed a personal fortune estimated at £1.7bn, putting him at number 40 in the Sunday Times Rich List.
Having gone straight into insurance from school in his home city of Norwich, ("I could have joined Norwich Union but somehow that would have been too easy"), he decided that he needed to boost his business skills and enrolled on a Masters course at what is now Cass Business School in the City of London...
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
A look at the job market for MBAs - Business Week
Andy Chan, director of Stanford's Career Center, offers insights into the MBA job market.
Monday, 16 June 2008
Reading List for the Poolside MBA
School is out, the sun is shining, and the temptation to forget about structured finance and pick up a trashy novel for beach reading is overwhelming. But those who are determined to get ahead of the MBA pack and beat out the competition for jobs in the increasingly competitive business world know that getting through an ambitious summer reading list is an assignment worth accepting.
The best thing about a summer reading list is that you can customize it to meet your interests as though you're your own professor. Also, you can complete it at your own pace, whether you're reading on a chaise poolside or waiting for the bus you take to your internship. And you don't have to do it on your own. You can start with suggestions from some professors at top American business schools, who recently shared their suggested summer reading lists with BusinessWeek.com. Another good source is BusinessWeek's list of best-selling business books.
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Internet Gives M.B.A. Schools Global Reach
Article of Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2008
When Duong Pham, a human-resources manager in Hanoi at a technology company, began researching M.B.A. programs on the Internet three months ago, she came across the "MBA Networking" group on Facebook, which connected her to thousands of current business-school students, alumni and prospective students. She fired off all sorts of questions, ranging from how easy it was to get part-time jobs at various campuses to whether Virginia, the site of a student massacre last year, was a safe place to study...
...Such social-networking sites are "a great place to do research. You can get very useful personal advice and opinions from a lot of people," says Ms. Pham, 26 years old. She hopes to apply to business school later this year.
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Mercer's 2008 Quality of Living survey - Europe dominates + in FT "The Monocle Quality of Life Index"
1. Mercer's 2008 Quality of Living survey, Last updated: 10 June 2008
Top 5 cities - Overall
- Zurich, Switzerland (1st)
- Vienna, Austria (tied for 2nd)
- Geneva, Switzerland (tied for 2nd )
- Vancouver, Canada (4th)
- Auckland, New Zealand (5th)
To encourage employment mobility and keep abreast of the competition, you need reliable information to help you calculate fair, consistent expatriate allowances. Based on 39 factors within ten categories, Mercer’s Quality of Living Reports contain all the key elements you need to calculate hardship allowances for transfers to more than 350 cities worldwide.
“Hardship allowance” refers to premium compensation paid to expatriates who experience – or should expect to experience – a significant deterioration in living conditions in their new host location.
Our reports are based on annual responses to a questionnaire developed by international Mercer professionals, working closely with major multinational companies and other experts in the field.
2. "A league table of liveable cities" Financial Times, June 13 2008, Tyler Brûlé is editor-in-chief of Monocle
The Monocle Quality of Life Index:
1. Copenhagen: out in front by virtue of its scale, a good airport, all those bike paths and handsome locals.
2. Munich: almost a winner, but it should have committed to building the Transrapid airport rail link.
3. Tokyo: the worlds best big city by far...
Friday, 13 June 2008
Asia is Hot Destination For European M.B.A.s
Article of Wall Street Journal
Opportunities Shrink In Western Centers; 'Where the Action Is'
LONDON -- Ankur Mehrotra returned from a trip to Hong Kong and Singapore that he helped organize for his fellow London Business School students this spring break with more than just jet lag: He got a banking sales job in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
And many of the 15 master in finance students who made the trek with him were similarly successful, coming home with either interviews or strong contacts to follow up on, he said.
They aren't alone. With Western economies sagging, many European business schools say they are seeing a jump in the number of M.B.A.s and other students looking East for opportunities.
...The difficulties of getting U.S. work visas are also prompting students who might have sought to go to the U.S. to try Asia instead, Mr. Mercado said.
"Our more globally minded students are increasingly frustrated at the difficulties of breaking through the legal and regulatory barriers of getting work in the U.S.," he said. "They understand the Eastward shift in terms of dynamism in the global economy, vibrancy, growth, advancement."
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Mendeley beta: Manage, Share and Discover Academic Knowledge and Research
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- Automatic extraction of metadata (authors, title, journal etc.) from academic papers into a library database. Saves you a lot of manual typing!
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- Share and synchronize your library with others, back it up online and access it from everywhere. See when your colleagues have new publications, are attending the same conferences, or are traveling to places near you. Coming soon.
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008
US Presidential Candidates Have Little Opportunity to Talk About Education
Click here for article of US News and Report, May 8, 2008.
...Losing step. Frustration over how education has been crowded out of the presidential debate is barely contained among the nation's leading education experts...
"Education is a big issue, but I don't hear much about it, because everyone is going after the 'gotcha' of the day," says former Secretary of State Colin Powell, founder of America's Promise, which is working to draw attention to high school dropout rates.
...Two thirds of all new U.S. jobs require advanced training, and many U.S. companies insist they can't find enough skilled employees to fill openings without hiring foreign workers. For example, while there are nearly 100,000 new jobs annually in computer science, there has been a dramatic decline in tech graduates. As a result, the United States provides 65,000 temporary work visas each year to help make up the shortfall...
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Hits and Misses - critique of Google Generation academia
Click here for Times Higher Education, 5 June 2008
Does the Google generation, which has grown up with a deluge of data just clicks away, lack the independence of thought and critical rigour needed for higher study? Matthew Reisz investigates
...illustrates the immense gulf between the world of old-time scholarship and the assumptions made - or often said to be made - by today's "Google generation", where everything is about instant gratification and "facts at one's fingertips", and information that lies more than three clicks away simply doesn't exist. Many are now concerned that this generation gap presents a fundamental challenge to some of the things that universities have long stood for, and that universities are either unable or failing to bridge it.
...So is it not just a particular generation but the whole academic world that has been Googlised? There seems to be some evidence for this. "With Google Scholar and Google Library under way," Library Journal reported in 2006, "Google strengthened its claim as the ubiquitous front door to the web and all of its content... 72 per cent of scholars surveyed for a report on self-archiving confessed to using Google to find scholarly literature on the web. Journal publishers of all sizes and importance are shaping their business plans around this phenomenon, sharing metadata with Google and other web crawlers in hopes of drawing users to content behind their tollgates."...
....None of this suggests a very sophisticated level of searching skills among the students of tomorrow. But that is only the half of it. Uncritical reliance on search engines may be a reasonable way of accessing information, despite their many limitations, but it is of no help for the core educational goal of learning to assess such information. The Ciber paper expressed concerns about whether students' "having 'facts at their fingertips' and a surfeit of information is at the expense of creative and independent thinking".
Monday, 09 June 2008
UK university lectures on iTunes
Click here for article of BBC News, 3 June 2008
University College London, the Open University and Trinity College Dublin are putting lectures onto iTunes.
Educational content is already available in the United States through the non-charging "iTunes U" section of the music downloading service.
But European universities are now joining, providing video and audio material for students to use on iPods or computers.
The service will include recordings of lectures from leading academics...