The week in higher education
Times Higher Education
Professor McGhee, who took over at UEL in February 2010, said he hoped "to return to making a full contribution to higher education leadership in the UK in the not-too-distant future". Deputy vice-chancellor John Joughin has taken temporary charge at ...
Times Higher Education
Commercial pressure led to rushed job on for-profit title award
Times Higher Education
The government decision to approve the UK's first for-profit university was hurried through to help meet a deadline in its sale to a private equity firm, a document obtained by Times Higher Education suggests. According to a paper given to THE under ...
What will a college degree get you?
Elkhart Truth
Some people question if a college degree is still worth the investment. There are careers that do not require a college degree. But, I have noticed an interesting phenomenon lately; many potential employers are now asking for a college degree – even if ...
The 'added value'of a college education
Elkhart Truth
College offers students a wide variety of activities and clubs outside the classroom which provides students with experiences that build the skills needed to be successful in the real world. I came to college for the education I could receive in the ...
Update: Community Colleges Seeing Progress, New Fears With Prop 30
KCET
California's community colleges have been struggling for years. Fees keep going up, courses have been cancelled, and instructors have been laid off. Prop 30, the tax increase pushed hard by Gov. Jerry Brown and approved last November, was supposed to ...
Sequester Will Rip Apart Higher Education in Indian Country - Indian Country Today Media Network.com
Sequester Will Rip Apart Higher Education in Indian Country
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
I had better not bury the lede: The sequester is going to rip apart higher education in Indian country. It's going to be ugly, folks, and worse, self-defeating. Haskell Indian Nations University is facing a budget cut that's almost 30 percent. This is ...
CBS Local
Higher Education Institutions Favor Performance-Based State Funding
CBS Local
JEFFERSON CITY (KMOX) – The performance of Missouri's higher education institutions could be the determining factor in how much money they receive from the state. The heads of several higher education institutions told lawmakers Tuesday they were in ...
Missouri higher education funding increases could vary by schoolColumbia Missourian
Governor: Boost SEMO funding by $1.49 millionSoutheast Missourian
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Center For American Progress
Lessons from the NFL for Managing College Enrollment
Center For American Progress
teacher using projector. SOURCE: AP/Steve Manuel. American higher education would be more inclusive and results driven if colleges and universities formed a league to establish rules of competition and progress in the public interest. By Jerome A ...
Obama's Second Term Opens Possibilities for Higher Education
Independent Voter Network
According to the Brookings Institute, one of the main avenues for social mobility and overcoming disadvantage is increasing possibilities for higher education. Tweet at Brookings: Tweet. In fact, previous Economic Mobility Project findings at the ...
Spending Money to Make Money
Inside Higher Ed
Community colleges are also doing the most to control their costs, according to the report. The sector is on the only one in higher education where operating budgets per student are smaller than they were a decade ago. Mullin said that frugality should ...
