{"id":31,"date":"2013-03-12T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T11:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/unite\/?p=31"},"modified":"2017-03-22T16:53:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:53:27","slug":"uk-universities-face-online-threat-says-pearsons-chief-education-adviser-sir-michael-barber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nutela\/2013\/03\/12\/uk-universities-face-online-threat-says-pearsons-chief-education-adviser-sir-michael-barber\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Universities &#8216;face online threat&#8217; says Pearson&#8217;s Chief Education Adviser, Sir Michael Barber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Michael Barber, chief education adviser for Pearson, says online courses will be a &#8220;threat and opportunity&#8221; for the UK&#8217;s universities. Barber&#8217;s recent report &#8216;An Avalanche is coming&#8217; is now available on line:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-weight: bold\">An avalanche is coming: Higher education and the revolution ahead Report (Michael Barber);<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"An Avalanche is coming\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ippr.org\/publication\/55\/10432\/an-avalanche-is-coming-higher-education-and-the-revolution-ahead\">http:\/\/www.ippr.org\/publication\/55\/10432\/an-avalanche-is-coming-higher-education-and-the-revolution-ahead<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>BBC report on Barber&#8217;s Report;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Universities 'face online threat'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-21670959\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-21670959<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Michael Barber, chief education adviser for Pearson, says online courses will be a &#8220;threat and opportunity&#8221; for the UK&#8217;s universities. Barber&#8217;s recent report &#8216;An Avalanche is coming&#8217; is now available on line: An avalanche is coming: Higher education and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nutela\/2013\/03\/12\/uk-universities-face-online-threat-says-pearsons-chief-education-adviser-sir-michael-barber\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nutela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nutela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nutela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nutela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nutela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nutela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nutela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nutela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nutela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nutela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}