Rural schools bring families closer through learning initiative
"Come on, time to go to school." Tan Xiangying, 70, would once urge her two grandchildren, but now it is the other way around-the kids remind Tan about her classes. Read more
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More Chinese receive higher education
A total of 240 million Chinese people have received higher education as a result of the country's historic strides in tertiary education development over the past decade, a senior education official said on Tuesday. Read more
China’s higher education progress in last 10 years
China has made great strides in higher education reform and development over the past 10 years. Here are some highlights. Read more
Dropouts among poor fall to historic lows
China has made efforts to stop poor students from dropping out of elementary and middle schools in the past decade, leaving no child behind and enhancing education equality. Read more
Here’s a List of Colleges That Require Students or Employees to Be Vaccinated Against Covid-19
As colleges look toward the fall semester, they’re grappling with whether to require — or just strongly encourage — students to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Read more
AI Chatbots Pose Ethical Risks. Here’s How One University Is Handling Those.
Visit the University of California at Irvine’s admissions page, and a box pops up in the bottom right corner. Click on it, and there’s Peter the Anteater, a chatbot affectionately named after the university’s mascot, clad in a varsity jacket and grinning. Read more
New Carnegie Classification Will Reflect Social and Economic Mobility
For nearly 50 years, colleges have eagerly awaited the latest Carnegie classifications to find out where they fall in a pecking order that, to many, has become synonymous with prestige. Read more
College Endowments Saw Stellar Returns as the Market Soared
During a fiscal year when stocks soared, college endowments posted annual returns that were up sharply from the year before, when the markets hit a volatile stretch early in the pandemic. Read more
Higher Ed Added More Than 9,000 Master’s-Degree Programs in Less Than a Decade
Some 24.1 million people age 25 and older had master’s degrees in 2021. That’s a 51-percent increase from 2011, when 16 million people held the credential. Read more
The Redefinition of Rigor
As colleges quickly moved classes online two years ago, professors went into emergency mode. To keep the ship of their course afloat, some were willing to jettison all kinds of cargo: traditional exams, hard deadlines, chunks of content. Some found it freeing to sail on with less baggage. Read More
