The Guardian (blog)
New Year Honours: higher education
The Guardian (blog)
Professor Ian David Diamond, principal and vice-chancellor, University of Aberdeen – for services to social science and higher education. Professor David Neil Payne, CBE, director, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton – for ...
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12 Most Influential Forces In Higher Education In 2012
Huffington Post
Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/for-profit-colleges-senate-report_n_1721058.html">released a damning report this year asserting</a> that for-profit ...
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Forget Four More Years: Why Community College Could Be Your Ticket To ...
Forbes
Students at community colleges also received, on average, $1700 in Pell Grant aid to offset these tuition fees. While community college tuition costs did rise 2.7% during 2010 – 2011, this was still less than half of the increase at private four-year ...
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Investment in higher ed is needed
Las Vegas Sun
“I don't want to work until I'm 80 to send you to college,” my mom said. There is no doubt that education, especially higher education, in America finds itself in serious trouble. Between 2009 and 2010, students were horrified to see a 112 percent hike ...
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Education digest: Chambersburg's Wilson College in uncommon program
Chambersburg Public Opinion
The purpose of the initiative is to advance young women from Muslim-majority countries by encouraging their pursuit of higher education in a STEM - science, technology, engineering or math - field. Tafesh previously spent a year as an exchange student ...
Oregon College Workers Must Report Abuse Under New Law
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
SALEM, Ore. — Oregon higher education employees and coaches are joining the list of people required by law to tell authorities when they believe a child has been abused. The mandate, partially an outgrowth of the sex-abuse scandal at Penn State ...
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University presidents not pleased with Gregoire's higher-ed plan
The Seattle Times
By encouraging no tuition increases in her proposed budget for the next biennium while not finding other money for higher education, Gregoire is leaving universities to solve their own financial problems, University of Washington President Michael ...
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
Liberal Arts Colleges Forced to Evolve With Market
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
But today's increasingly career-focused students mostly aren't buying the idea that a liberal arts education is good value, and many small liberal arts colleges are struggling. The survivors are shedding their liberal arts identity, if not the label. A ...
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KOMO News
State universities not happy with Gregoire's tuition freeze plan
KOMO News
Chris Gregoire's goal of not raising college tuition over the next two years is not sitting well with the leaders of Washington's universities, who say the proposal fails to recognize the budget problems they face. A decade ago, state dollars paid ...
WA universities not happy with Gov. Gregoire's tuition planTheNewsTribune.com
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Today.com (blog)
In the math of education, two years sometimes is worth more than four years
Today.com (blog)
Community college degrees, long considered also-ran prizes in the race for academic achievement, “are worth a lot more than I expected and that I think other people expected,” Schneider said. But there is a catch: You have to earn your degree in a ...
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