Educators behaving badly
Chancellor's smartphone action during recent graduation ceremony sparks conversation about academics' etiquette and netiquette (and lack thereof).
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Tennessee colleges show 4-year drop in need for remedial classes
Fewer students at Tennessee's public colleges need remedial classes to prepare for higher education, a new report shows, and officials are citing it as an early example that a program embedding extra support in high schools is succeeding.
Queensland University of Technology to introduce full smoking ban
Smoking will be banned from all three Queensland University of Technology campuses from the start of the next financial year.
Chinese University turns inactive public bathroom into study rooms
Taizhou University in Zhejiang province has remodeled its public bathroom that hasn't been used for years into a 35 self-study rooms and opened it to students in April, reported vcg.com on Friday.
Chinese kids descend terrifying cliff face to school
Some kids will do anything to get out of school. Others risk their lives to get there.
This industry helps Chinese students cheat into, through U.S. college
The advertisements were tailored for Chinese college students far from home, struggling with the English language and an unfamiliar culture.
Hillary Clinton’s Focus on Students Who Are Single Parents
As a model for a federal initiative, she points to a program she helped start in Arkansas.
FutureLearn launches first Moocs offering academic credits
FutureLearn, the UK’s massive open online course platform, is launching its first programmes that allow students to earn credits towards a university degree.
Chinese student market: can the West weather a perfect storm?
In the late 1970s, Marguerite Dennis was a young admissions officer at Georgetown University in Washington DC. At the time, Iranians were the most populous group of international students on campus.
When Protests Obstruct Free Speech
Recent incidents at DePaul and UC Irvine raise the question of what obligations a college has to make sure that protesters -- while objecting to an event -- can't shut it down or block its ideas from being heard.
