New rules bring extracurricular classes to book
Schoolchildren in China face an ever-increasing workload as parents look to give them an advantage
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What Motivates Good Teaching?
New study of faculty motivation for teaching says certain kinds of motivation -- intrinsic and believing that teaching is important -- are linked to use of best teaching practices, across institution types. Rewards and guilt appear to have no bearing on best practices.
Oxford academics launch world’s first ‘blockchain university’
A group of University of Oxford academics have launched the world’s first “blockchain university”, an Oxbridge-style institution that they describe as “Uber for students, Airbnb for academics”.
Reclaiming Their Campuses
Public colleges and universities that were forced to host white supremacists (who lacked any ties to the institution) are now looking at ways to restrict certain events, but to avoid doing so based on content.
People with massive student debt hope Trump will let them declare bankruptcy
Denise Sparks graduated from college in 1995 with $30,000 in debt. Then her life turned challenging.
Super-agency the ‘go-to for how-to’ in English higher education
With public attention fixed on the Office for Students’ controversial first few months, the arrival of a second major new higher education body in England has largely gone unnoticed
ED forgives $322M in loans to help HBCUs recover from hurricanes
The U.S. Education Department is granting full forgiveness of $322 million in loans made to four historically black colleges and universities that suffered damage after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the Gulf Coast in 2005.
Online, Cheap — and Elite
Five years ago the Georgia Institute of Technology began a bold experiment -- to take a high-profile graduate program, put it online and offer it to students at a fraction of the cost of the in-person degree.
Fishy research opens a can of worms
It is the hedgehog of the reef: a tropical fish whose quill-like fin spines inflict a painful sting. Now the zebra lionfish has become embroiled in an expanding research misconduct investigation that stretches from a Queensland island to the chilly Baltic and the grasslands of Saskatchewan.
Bridgepoint Education, Inc. plans to separate from Ashford University
Bridgepoint Education, Inc. (NYSE: BPI), a provider of postsecondary education services, today announced it plans to separate from its academic institutions, Ashford University and University of the Rockies, and become an Online Program Management (OPM) company.
