How better job descriptions will change higher education
I’m not always great at predicting the future. Sure, two decades ago I believed online universities would be a thing.
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I’m not always great at predicting the future. Sure, two decades ago I believed online universities would be a thing.
A small liberal arts college on Long Island that was on the brink of closing down is close to a deal to keep its doors open.
The proportion of English undergraduates telling a major survey that their degree was poor value for money has exceeded the proportion who felt it was good value for the first time, with concerns focusing on low contact hours and delays in returning assignments.
Like in the United States, knowledge of robots will likely become an integral part of school education in China in the not-so-distant future, if some forward-thinking technology firms have their way.
The Asian market for the odd-looking giant clams known as geoducks has spawned a growing aquaculture industry in Washington's Puget Sound.
Faculty members and students worry they're paying the price for construction projects amid a focus on cutting administrative costs.
A cheater in China used to have it easy: His family might be subjected to a harsh scolding, and his exam results might be thrown out. Now, a student caught cheating could face a prison sentence.
For the past few months, Arkansas' higher education leaders have been toiling away at a complete redesign of the way the state funds its colleges and universities.
So that's the end of Googling from the office.
This story begins in the Pentagon.