Higher education news for libraries and librarians

Learned Society of Wales report

Equity and Quality in Education - Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools New report from OECD

Across OECD countries, almost one in every five students does not reach a basic minimum level of skills. In addition, students from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds are twice as likely to be low performers

Reskilling for Research Data Management workshop slides. Find out what skills librarians need to know . details from projects at UWE, University of East London. Particularly liked this one. in terms of innovation and suggestions.

Presenting some headline results from the Sheffield iSchool's recent survey of UK academic library activity in RDM. 

Pew Internet and American life report. See what users value and what they dont know about libraries in the USA!

Which launch new free website compare course and universities. Viewponts from students.

Free access to some of the tables on Higher education qualifications.

joint million+ and London Economics report explores the the nature and scale of the benefits of higher education. Covers economic and social benefits

Policy Exchange report - advises development of technical education reports

NMC Horizon Report 2013 Higher Education Edition 
Due to be released in Feb 2013 this major report from NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). There is now a preview of the trends in use of technology which they forecast for higher education. It is clearly written describing each technology, its applications for education and giving case studies of existing innovative use and references for further reading.
In its list for one year of less are:
Flipped Classroom, Massively Open Online Courses, Mobile Apps, Tablet Computing