Smog alerts promote online education
Beijing's two recent red alerts for air pollution led to the suspension of classes at primary and middle schools in the capital, but online education platforms experienced a boom.
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Apollo buys German for-profit college for $105 million
US for-profit provider Apollo Education Group has bought a German college for $105 million (£71 million).
Partnerships again center of higher education conversation
Union Graduate College and Clarkson University merge in early 2016, creating Clarkson University's Capital Region campus in Schenectady.
Lawmaker plans new, unusual private college for Sitka
State Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins of Sitka dropped out of Yale University soon before graduation to run for the Legislature.
South African government patches holes in student funding regime
An extra 6.9 billion rand (£306 million) will be pumped into South Africa’s higher education system to tackle a student finance crisis which triggered nationwide protests.
About-Face on Fee Waivers
NYU changes policy and its website, and apologizes to would-be graduate student who went public after being told the university didn't grant waivers.
Less Than 1%
Only 323 of 34,086 learners are eligible to take advantage of Arizona State's MOOCs-for-credit initiative with edX.
As public funding of universities dwindles, faculty are unionizing
When newly installed University of Washington (UW) President Ana Mari Cauce and Interim Provost Jerry Baldasty got wind that the UW faculty was collecting signatures on union cards...
Tenure or Bust
Nearly 90 percent of professors at U of Wisconsin System would consider leaving state if tenure were abolished, and majority say it would limit scholarly inquiry, according the results of controversial survey.
Most international graduate students in US on master’s degrees
More than three-quarters of first-time international graduate students in the US are enrolled in master’s or certificate programmes, new data has found.
