The Business of Education

15/01/2025

Global challenges today demand creative, interdisciplinary solutions. Polymaths are more essential than ever. Explore simple strategies to become one.

13/01/2025

Some HR leaders feel the usage of AI in hiring could harm candidate quality.

09/01/2025

Amazon and JPMorgan want to turn back the clock on working from home — but it's too late to stop it

08/01/2025

The long-predicted downturn in the number of 18-year-olds is almost here. And it isn't just a problem for higher education. It's a looming crisis for the economy.

08/01/2025

The Hidden Impact Of High Tuition Payments On Student Grades

Students whose parents pay more in tuition earn lower grades. A pay-it-forward funding model offers a superior approach with regard to leaning outcomes.

05/01/2025

U.S. workers are getting more work done. That's great for the economy - though not always great for the workers.

U.S. workers are getting more done. That’s great for the economy—though not always great for workers.

04/01/2025

AI and automation are transforming industries and redefining the skills needed for success. According to the Harvard Business Review, 80% of CEOs identify workforce capability building as their greatest challenge, highlighting the urgency for educational innovation. McKinsey experts emphasize the need for strategic workforce development to stay competitive in this era of rapid change.

Explore how WGU, Quantic, and Minerva are preparing students for AI-driven careers with experiential learning, innovation, and global immersion.

04/01/2025

The trend is intended to stop workers from getting burned out at their jobs.

31/12/2024

With a 200% increase in two years, the data paints a vivid picture of how AI technology is reshaping the workforce.

29/12/2024

New Research Reveals True Value Of College Education

Research shows higher ed offers broader financial and social gains than just bigger paychecks. However, results vary widely by field and institution.

26/12/2024

Not literally. Structurally, it’s sound. There are plenty of fiber optic cables lining ocean floors, cell towers looming above cityscapes, and server-filled data centers. But the very foundations of the utilitarian web—the platforms that undergird our everyday experiences online—feel shaky, pulsing with the first foreshocks of a collapse.

The internet, of course, is controlled by the largest, richest, most powerful companies in the world. It’s not a dead internet, as some have posited, because we primarily consume artificial content; rather, it’s living and neglected, merely damned by corporate greed, indolence, and indifference. Silicon Valley’s giants no longer compete and no longer innovate; instead they cut costs, boost profit margins, and block out competitors in order to maintain consumer habit and market dominance. Online platforms give us convenience, but no novelty, and they have vanishing utility in increasingly our digital lives.

Maybe this was the last year of the usable web. If so, blame corporate greed.

24/12/2024

In this edition of The Playbook, we take a look at age-related discrimination, the hottest jobs for 2025 and more.

23/12/2024

BI studied the latest hiring numbers, and things don't look good for experienced supervisors.

20/12/2024

Literacy rates are tumbling as kids' attention spans dwindle. Families are scraping together funds to move schools or get tutors, driving a societal divide.

18/12/2024

https://hbr.org/2024/12/where-humans-still-have-the-edge-on-ai

Gen AI has several attributes that humans lack. It’s always on. It boasts encyclopedic knowledge. It generates output instantly. It can scale endlessly. This new era of AI can feel intimidating for the limited, human life forms that created it. Humans now need to look harder to see where our uniqu...

17/12/2024

Apprenticeships are becoming a popular alternative to college as a career path. But demand is outpacing the supply of employers who offer them.

17/12/2024

Warren Buffett doesn't fit the mold of someone obsessed with traditional education, even though he's got the credentials to back it up. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska and a master's in economics from Columbia University. But here's the thing: the Oracle of Omaha doesn't b...

16/12/2024

Organizational experts say Amazon is a leading indicator of a new era of flattening in corporate structure, and its slashing of manager roles isn't just about cost-cutting, but a glimpse into the future of work.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy delivered one of 2024's major job headlines with his five-day office mandate, but there's a bigger tech organizational shakeup at work.