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Heather A. Turner; Jeffrey C. Sun; Kevin P. Kinser; Sarah T. Zipf – Institute for College Access & Success, 2024
Online program managers (OPMs) are third-party companies that work with colleges and universities to develop, launch, and deliver online learning. Despite the prevalence of these companies in higher education, cost details are often buried or asserted with legal protections as trade secrets or business models unavailable for public review.3…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Program Administration, Online Courses, School Business Relationship
Jeffrey C. Sun; Heather A. Turner; Kevin Kinser; Sarah T. Zipf – Institute for College Access & Success, 2024
Based on a review of 48 online program manager (OPM) contracts and 44 chief online learning officer (COLO) interviews, this policy brief highlights potentially problematic contract provisions between colleges and OPMs, raising concerns about their effects on federal compliance, students' learning, and openness about government contracting.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Program Administration, Partnerships in Education, Contracts
Kevin Kinser; Sarah Zipf; Jeffrey C. Sun; Heather Turner – Institute for College Access & Success, 2024
White-label programs in higher education, designed and supported by online program management (OPM) firms, pose unique challenges to current policy. In part this is because OPM firms and services are either exempt from policy or fall into a gray area that policy has not yet considered. Policymakers, however, do not need to develop entirely new…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Business Relationship, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
Rene W. Albertus; Frank Makoza – Transformation in Higher Education, 2025
In this article, the researchers interrogate the media discourse on the national students financial aid scheme (NSFAS) crisis, as well as how the language used by politicians and students, shaped the decision-making of stakeholders. A qualitative approach was employed to analyse online media articles. Content analysis was used to organise the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Financial Aid, Financial Aid Applicants
Sharma, Gunjan; Mittal, Radhika; Zayan – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2023
This article engages with the teacher education (TE) reform approach adopted in India's National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. It locates the policy recommendations in the context and challenges of TE in India and makes sense of the NEP's vision for the domain. It examines the knowledge traditions and global education policy (GEP) discourses that…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Helton, Benjamin C.; Delfing, Jason M. – Journal of Music Teacher Education, 2023
Music teachers commonly lack basic awareness of and skill in navigating various education policy areas. One explanation for this lack of policy acumen is the general absence of policy content within the preservice music teacher curriculum. While music teacher educators have primary responsibility for curricular decisions, music education program…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teachers
Dudley, Taela; Hall, Stephanie; Acosta, Alejandra; Laitinen, Amy – Century Foundation, 2021
Since the advent of online education, some colleges and universities have looked to third-party companies for help developing, marketing, and providing their online degree and certificate programs. But in recent years, those companies have expanded to run more and more of their clients' online programs. An industry has developed around online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Higher Education, Program Administration, Accreditation (Institutions)
Cornell, Bethan – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2020
The "Nature PhD Students Survey 2019" is a worldwide study on the wellbeing of PhD students and their attitudes towards academia. The Wellcome Trust's report on research culture, "What Researchers Think About the Culture They Work In" (2020), examines the attitudes of academics at all stages of their careers, including PhD…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Doctoral Students
Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2021
Over the last two years the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) staff conducted a thorough program review to determine the current relevance and value of the Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP). This culminated in the report "Student Reciprocity Programs and MSEP in the 21st Century" (ED627191) which utilized historical MHEC…
Descriptors: Institutional Cooperation, Tuition, Interstate Programs, Higher Education
Mishory, Jen – Century Foundation, 2018
In the past few years, dozens of states, localities, and schools have proposed or enacted "free college" policies, also known as College Promise programs. While a handful of states have run Promise-like programs for decades, the 2014 launch of the Tennessee Promise and the Obama administration's focus on the concept catalyzed several…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Educational Trends, State Programs, College Programs
Adams, Cindy L.; Brinthaupt, Thomas M. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2019
Because funding for many higher education institutions is based on student persistence and graduation rates, and because competition for online student enrollments is fierce among public and private institutions, quality and competitiveness in online course development, instruction, and administration is imperative. Additionally, because distance…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Educational Finance, Consortia
Abebe, Rediet Tesfaye; Ford, Krisztina – Quality in Higher Education, 2019
This article explores the status of student feedback channels and the role of student representatives in the quality assurance and enhancement of Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) programmes. It provides an analysis of 1941 open-ended survey responses, covering 87 EMJMD programmes and involving respondents of 129 nationalities. The…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Educational Cooperation, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
Yego, Helen J. C. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This paper examines the expansion and management of quality of parallel programmes in Kenya's public universities. The study is based on Privately Sponsored Students Programmes (PSSP) at Moi University and its satellite campuses in Kenya. The study was descriptive in nature and adopted an ex-post facto research design. The study sample consisted…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Sampling, Foreign Countries, Program Administration
Institute for College Access & Success, 2018
Within California, there is widespread understanding and consensus that college affordability is a challenge that needs to be addressed. Along with this consensus on the nature and implications of California's college affordability problems, there is also emerging agreement about how to tackle it. While this convergence can form the backbone of a…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Educational Change, College Students, Paying for College
Appel, Sara; Parks, Jenny; Trechter, Everett – Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2021
In 1994, the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) joined its sister compacts in offering a regional student reciprocity and tuition exchange opportunity known as the Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP). The program allowed students from one MHEC state to attend an institution at a reduced tuition rate in another MHEC state when the…
Descriptors: Institutional Cooperation, Tuition, Interstate Programs, Higher Education