Making a Difference: Power Though Knowledge and College Education
Huffington Post (blog)
I decided to start my own scholarship foundation at UC Santa Barbara called Power Through Knowledge Scholarship Foundation, which supports prospective university scholars (regardless of citizen status) who are committed to higher education and their ...
Deseret News
Degree inflation: Tight job market has been flooded by too many college graduates
Deseret News
A college degree has become the gateway for hiring at many companies across the United States, and not just for the lucrative jobs. Receptionists, administrative assistants, file clerks and even office runners making $10 per hour need a four-year ...
The Hindu
Dress code for degree college lecturers?
The Hindu
If the latest government circular comes into effect, lecturers and principals of all degree colleges in the State will have to follow a uniform dress code. N.S. Channappa Gowda, Commissioner of Collegiate Education, issued a circular on Wednesday ...
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Hassan Promises to Reinstate Higher Education Funding
PSU The Clock
On Feb 14th, Governor Maggie Hassan gave the budget address to the citizen of New Hampshire. In this address, Hassan has made it very clear that she feels New Hampshire can take a lead in the country's economic growth. Hassan's plan is to create a ...
Salon
The Real War on Higher Education
Washington Monthly (blog)
But what if education innovation can also be a means to destroy higher education? Why are the politicians so excited about technology-based education innovation so often the same ones who seem to hate college? That's what Andrew Leonard argues over ...
Conservatives declare war on collegeSalon
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Are Career-Oriented Majors a Waste of a 4-Year Higher Education?
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog)
Even as President Obama, a handful of governors, and several private foundations continue to push American higher education to graduate more students so that the United States has the world's highest portion of people with college credentials, a ...
The Australian Financial Review
MOOCs and the crisis in higher education
Minnesota Public Radio
Clay Shirky argues in The Awl that while MOOCs may not be the answer for the crisis in higher education, the U and other bricks-and-mortar schools need to come up with solutions. To understand the scope of the problem, he says don't think about the ...
Providers of free online college courses add schools, including many foreign onesWashington Post (blog)
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Salon
Conservatives declare war on college
Salon
That's what my inbox has been telling me ever since my story two weeks ago about the inevitable invasion of MOOCs (massive open online courses) into higher education, “The Internet Will Not Ruin College.” The negativity wasn't unanimous, but it was ...
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Saving for Your Child's College Education
Patch.com
By Cindy Denby. Saving for your children's college years can be a daunting task. Every year it seems the cost of a college education increases. The Michigan Education Trust (MET) is an excellent way to invest in your child's future. The trust allows ...
Lecturers debate future of higher ed
The Brown Daily Herald
The place of higher education in a rapidly changing world was the focus of a contentious debate between two speakers at a Janus Lecture Series event last night in MacMillan 117. Richard Vedder, professor of economics at Ohio University and director of ...
