Posted by Stephen Downes February 14, 2004
Two types of technologies are about to merge. The technologies are content syndication, used by blogging websites around the world, and social networking, employed by sites such as Friendster and Orkut. They will merge to create a new type of internet, a network within a network, and in so doing reshape the internet as we know it.
The term “Semiformal Ontology” refers to a ontology which has a few bits of formality but is largely informal. It is the analog of what Tom Malone calls semi structured data, such as email or office forms. A semiformal ontology could support techn
The owner of a private Japanese university was arrested this month and charged with making off with millions of dollars in government subsidies while his institution ran up such huge debts that...
Another private-equity investor is taking a high-profile stake in the higher-education industry. Sterling Capital Partners announced on Tuesday that it had acquired the for-profit Florida Coastal...
Angry nurses have attacked the Federal Government after a private university was yesterday promised a cash handout only months after Sydney University's nursing faculty was told it would be axed.
The fast-growing movement to unionize graduate students at the nation's private universities suffered a crushing setback yesterday when the National Labor Relations Board reversed itself and ruled that students who worked as research and teaching assistants did not have the right to unionize.
South Korea's ministry of education has ordered three private institutions to turn over $15.3-million and dismiss 68 professors and officials due to bribery, and mishandling of funds. The ministry has withheld approval for one board of trustees and replaced another's.
A class-action lawsuit filed against ITT Educational Services last month accuses the company of issuing "materially false and misleading" quarterly reports that defrauded investors.
In legislation that Republican Congressional leaders introduced in May to extend the law that governs most federal-student aid programs, for-profit colleges came out on top.
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