By Eric Hoover. The Common Application will no longer require member colleges to conduct “holistic” reviews of applicants, the organization announced on Friday. The change in policy will allow institutions that do not require admission essays or recommendations to join the 549 colleges worldwide that use the standardized online admission form. More...
By Steve Kolowich. Some MOOC skeptics believe that the only students fit to learn in massive open online courses are those who are already well educated. Without coaching and the support system of a traditional program, the thinking goes, ill-prepared students will not learn a thing. Read more...By Rebecca Koenig. Websites offering online college-admission counseling have proliferated in the past few years, with services whose prices range from free to thousands of dollars. This week saw the launch of two new options that claim to make low-cost resources more widely available. Read more...
By Dan Berrett. Student course evaluations are often misused statistically and shed little light on the quality of teaching, two scholars at the University of California at Berkeley argue in the draft of a new paper.By Tom Bartlett. Nancy Andreasen is not a smooth performer-of-ideas in the TED vein, the sort who roams the stage wirelessly mic’d, dispensing wisdom with Broadway-caliber aplomb. She does it old school, podium and PowerPoint, describing her research as she clicks through slides. The 400 or so people gathered for a midafternoon session of this summer's Aspen Ideas Festival were drawn by the promise of learning "The Secrets of the Creative Brain" from Andreasen, a literary scholar turned psychiatrist and neuroscientist, winner of the National Science Medal, and author of a landmark study that found that eight out of 10 writers had experienced some form of mental illness during their lives. Read more...By Gregory Walton. A best-selling book penned by a Portuguese don has excoriated the English for being 'promiscuous, dirty and drunken'. Read more...
By Nick Morrison. Universities are now more competitive than ever, prompting a rise in the use of aptitude tests to distinguish between applicants, says Nick Morrison. Read more...
By Graeme Paton. Universities are increasingly complex, multibillion-pound organisations in which teaching comes a distant second on the priority list. It’s the start of the academic year, and up and down the country, the motorways will be full of family hatchbacks, transporting teenagers to university for the first time. Read more...
By Graeme Paton. The Higher Education Policy Institute says that abolishing limits on the recruitment of students to English universities will lead to a rise in the number of EU undergraduates. Read more...
By Claire Shaw. A new report shows there are plenty of unanswered questions about lifting the cap – we address the key concerns. Along with tuition fees and the inclusion of international students in net migration targets, the plan to lift the cap on student numbers is one of the most debated topics in UK higher education. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
