Furor on Claim Women’s Choices Create Gender Gap in Comp Sci
Lecturer at University of Washington says he's standing up to political correctness. Many challenge his facts.
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Colleges connect the textbooks
How colleges are integrating digital textbooks with back-end learning and administrative systems
Digging Deeper on Student Loan Default Rates
Crisis-level student loan default rates among black borrowers and those who attended for-profits cannot be explained fully by students' backgrounds, study finds, including measures of income, employment and parental wealth.
THE podcast: data and how it’s changing the way universities work
Data and analytics specialists discuss how universities should strategically use metrics to understand their own performance as well as their students'
Breaking Through the ‘Parchment Ceiling’
In his new book, the digital education veteran Peter Smith calls for an end to “knowledge discrimination” at our colleges and universities.
A movement rises to take back higher education
Heterodox Academy, now more than 2,000 strong, stands against censorship and for free inquiry.
Twice as many students skip all lectures when videos available
Introduction of lecture capture also leads to significant drop in attainment, King’s College London study finds
Signs of life for the Perkins Act?
As with the Higher Education Act (HEA), Congress is past due in reauthorizing the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act.
Feds Plan Accreditation Experimentation
Key Education Department official says innovators in higher ed should not be held back by their accreditors.
Norway passes ban on burkas in universities
Parliamentary moves to outlaw Islamic face veils from classrooms have been strongly criticised by universities
