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New study shows how wealthy parents and their involvement with their children drastically changes the college experience.
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Higher education aid project’s £3.3 million ‘largely squandered’
Questions have been raised about the value of international organisations providing aid for developing countries’ higher education systems, after the veterans of one project warned that much of its $4.6 million (£3.3 million) budget had been squande
The preposterous ‘evidence’ that casts Chinese students as spies
Following a school shooting in Florida that killed 17 people, including that of a Chinese-American student who held a door to let his classmates escape, we learned that the FBI received a tip about the shooter last month but failed to act.
Mindfulness exercises ‘help students stay focused in class’
Taking part in brief mindfulness exercises can help university students stay focused during lectures, researchers have claimed.
Posttenure Review or a Plan to Undercut Tenure?
Right after U of Tennessee faculty members agreed on plan to toughen oversight of tenured professors, system proposed rules many say endanger academic freedom.
In effort to save money, two small colleges move toward merger
In an attempt to stay affordable and competitive, two small liberal arts colleges in Newton are considering merging, the schools announced Saturday.
Colleges open libraries to neighboring students
Sharing resources among campuses makes sense for more than economical reasons, as colleges are finding these opportunities can better serve busy students.
A new higher ed movement
Across our history, America has educated our citizens and future leaders far more effectively than other countries.
If you make them laugh, will they apply?
Colleges bombard bright high school students with pitches. Will an unexpected bit of humor motivate them to look more seriously at an institution?
Open-access charges ‘create new inequalities’ in publishing
A global shift towards open-access publishing is opening up new types of inequality within academia, according to research that highlights institutional “stratification” in publishing access outcomes.
