Turnover, Burnout and Demoralization in Higher Ed
A researcher explores academe’s version of the “big quit”—what’s distinctive about it and why campus leaders need to take it seriously. Read more
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‘Fake students’ financial aid fraud continues in Calif. colleges, potentially costing taxpayers millions
The California Community Colleges system continues to face an unknown amount of application and financial aid fraud as officials work to put in place a variety of solutions to address it, such as updated software programs and new requirements for campuses to better report data to oversight agencies. Read more
‘Pupils are distressed’: community fights top London school’s takeover
Parents and students at one of England’s top academy schools, where the children of Michael Gove and former Commons Speaker John Bercow are pupils, are locked in a bitter dispute with ministers about plans for the school to be taken over by one of the country’s largest academy chains. Read more
£5m Virtual Reality centre launches in Portsmouth
I'm in a large and colourful wooden-floored room. There's a man standing next to me, and a bird is at my feet. Suddenly both the man and the bird disappear. It sounds like the start of a surreal dream, and in a way it is, because none of it is real. I was actually standing on a high-tech digital stage at Portsmouth University. Read more
Virginia’s community colleges are losing students. Can free tuition bring them back?
Known as G3 — “Get a Skill, Get a Job, Get Ahead” — it covers the cost of community college for low- and middle-income students in high-demand fields. Read more
Academy’s database boycott may herald Chinese publishing shake-up
Scholars question whether open access platforms could step in to replace dominance of China National Knowledge Infrastructure
Read moreAmazon will pay US staff travel expenses for abortions and other treatments
Amazon will reimburse staff in the US who travel for a wide range of non-life threatening medical treatments including elective abortions. Read more
Why critics of angry woke college kids are missing the point
Wendy Brown says 'academic freedom needs to be appreciated as a collective right of the faculty to be free of interference in determining what we research and teach.' Read more
A Clearer Path Back to College May Yield More Degrees
Too many obstacles block students who left college from returning to get degrees they were close to earning, according to a new report on an initiative to get those students over the finish line. Read more
