By Paul Fain. The Trump administration has called on the U.S. Congress to cut $3 billion from the U.S. Department of Education's budget as part of $18 billion in new proposed cuts to social programs for the current fiscal year, according to news reports. The White House previously called for a $9.2 billion (or 13.5 percent) cut to the department for next year. Read more...
11 avril 2017
White House Calls for More Cuts to Pell
2 Think Tanks Weigh In on Accreditation
By Paul Fain. A new report from the Center for American Progress says 12 of the largest accrediting agencies lack the budgets and staffing necessary to adequately monitor the quality of colleges they oversee. Read more...
Better Marriage Between College and Job Training
By Paul Fain. In a rare point of agreement, the Trump administration and many academics would like to see less focus on colleges as work force development centers. Read more...
College Degrees for Entry-Level Jobs
By Paul Fain. A new study from the Rockefeller Foundation and Edelman Intelligence questions whether the college degree is the best way to screen candidates for entry-level jobs. Read more...
Merger Between Assessment Firms Taskstream and Tk20
By Paul Fain. Taskstream, a New York City-based company that works with colleges and higher education associations on assessment, accreditation and e-portfolios, this week announced that it is merging with Tk20, an Austin, Tex.-based firm that also provides services related to learning assessment and accreditation. Read more...
A Step Ahead of For-Profits
By Ashley A. Smith. With a federal government that now appears sympathetic to for-profit colleges, city officials in Milwaukee seek to block institutions that violate Obama-era regulations. Read more...
The Free Certificate Movement
By Ashley A. Smith. But in Indiana, a new proposal -- the Workforce Ready Grant -- would instead offer free community college to those students who want a certificate in a high-demand field. While the certificates would vary by program, they typically take anywhere from 18 to 34 credit hours to complete or at most one year for a full-time student. Read more...
A Promise With Limits
By Ashley A. Smith. Arkansas becomes latest state to create a free community college plan. But it limits programs of study and could require some recipients to pay back the money. Read more...
Russia's International Student Strategy
By Jack Grove for Times Higher Education. About 283,000 international students studied at Russian universities last year, making it the sixth-largest market for globally mobile students, behind only the United States, Britain, China, France and Australia, figures gathered by the Institute of International Education’s Project Atlas study show. Read more...
The Peace Process and Higher Ed in Colombia
By Matthew Reisz for Times Higher Education. The country has some strong universities, but many institutions struggle to serve impoverished students. Read more...
