1 week 3 days ago

Complex.com

Online education transforming college
San Jose Mercury News
For years, online classes existed on the margins of higher education. Then Silicon Valley startups devised slick platforms delivering elite university courses, free, to students everywhere. Suddenly, online studies have become central to discussions ...
Online Courses Could Widen Achievement Gaps Among StudentsChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog)
The Latest Online Education Craze Could Very Well Worsen the Achievement GapColorLines magazine

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1 week 3 days ago

WSU Tri-Cities not listed in online higher education database
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
President Obama touted an online higher education database during his recent State of the Union address. The database features thousands of four-year universities, community colleges and vocational schools around the nation and is designed to help ...

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1 week 3 days ago

International Business Times

China's Steep University Tuition Costs The Average Farmer 13 Years Of Income
International Business Times
Still, migrant workers and people from poorer, rural areas of China are finding it increasingly difficult to pay for their children to attend college as tuition costs continue to rise. According to the government report, Chinese universities have ...

1 week 3 days ago

Lacking a college degree? You may not exist to more employers
Tampabay.com
If it's true that the college degree is the new high school diploma, it suggests the master's degree may become the new college bachelor's degree. I'm not sure that parallel works quite so well, and the job market success of grads with college degrees ...

1 week 3 days ago

Educational Options: With energy in our future, college isn't for everyone
New Castle News
Dr. Steve Catt, executive director of workforce development at the community college, said programs connected to the energy industry range from the three-week ShaleNet curriculum to two-year associate's degrees. Representatives from the school recruit ...

1 week 3 days ago

WSU Tri-Cties not listed in online higher education database
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
President Obama touted an online higher education database during his recent State of the Union address. The database features thousands of four-year universities, community colleges and vocational schools around the nation and is designed to help ...

1 week 4 days ago

Higher Education, RIP
Town Hall
What ever happened to the medium once known as Little Magazines? This country once had a select group of literary and political journals that represented the vanguard of American thought and art. Some were both literary and political. High Culture, it ...

1 week 4 days ago

Putting together the pieces of higher education
OregonLive.com
Currently, there is the chancellor's office and the Board of Higher Education, overseeing the universities. (The state Board of Education oversees community colleges.) There is now the Higher Education Coordinating Committee, created to oversee both ...

1 week 4 days ago

Value of College Education . . . Reading
The Missourian
However, when the total value of a college education is put in the proper perspective, for a complete life, a college education is necessary. A college education opens up other doors in one's life that have tremendous value. A college education paves ...

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1 week 4 days ago

Quality schools, higher education top Price agenda
Lasentinel
Curren Price has been honored multiple times as Legislator of the Year by the UC Student Association: the leading candidate for Los Angeles City Council is a longtime champion of education reforms that help make college a realistic goal for families in ...

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