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Wendy Colby, BU’s inaugural VP and associate provost for BU Virtual, oversees a new department dedicated to working with BU’s schools and colleges for opportunities to expand online education.

Leading Educational Advancement through Progressive Schools (LEAPS) summit, organised by Qatar Foundation’s (QF) Pre-University Education, saw experts come

Why 2020 Will Be Seen as One of the Most Important Years in the History of Education BY December 22, 2020 I t has been nearly nine months since the COVID-19 pandemic caused the shutdown of schools across the world resulting in over 1.5 billion learners out of school. Since then, schools have readjusted and adapted in various ways; some cities and localities have seen schools closed again. With recent encouraging news of successful vaccine trials and 2021 soon approaching, we take this moment to...

University and author of "why government fails so often." good morning to you, peter. okay, so why does government fail so often? >> there are a lot of reasons. their incentives create the wrong incentives for people to do things. the v.a., for example. the idea to raise the numbers rather than to serve people well and on time. sometimes programs are designed to fail. the farm subsidies program, for example, everybody knows the money is going to the wrong people but they have very strong interes...