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For-Profit Educator Will Pay $3.75-Million Over Deceptive Marketing
By Andy Thomason. A for-profit education company has agreed to pay Massachusetts $3.75-million to settle claims it engaged in deceptive marketing practices, The Boston Globe reports. The office of the state’s attorney general, Martha Coakley, announced on Friday that the Salter chain, which is owned by Premier Education Group LP, had claimed its admissions process was selective when it wasn’t and had misrepresented job-placement rates. More...
How to Improve Discussion of Race in the Classroom
By Jeannine Bell. The grand juries’ decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner bore all the hallmarks of sensitive topics that, to keep the peace, should be discussed only in private, or in small groups of people who share the same race and politics. More...
An Aging America: Higher Education's New Frontier
By Barbara Vacarr. As baby boomers flock toward retirement in ever-increasing numbers, industries are gearing up to capitalize on this historic demographic revolution. But for all the attention, one sector has been strangely absent from the conversation: higher education. More...
Ecuador is betting $1 billion that a dream city can make it a high-tech leader
By Jim Wyss. Ecuador is building a research university and city in the middle of a remote pasture. Can it succeed where others have failed?
It’s the year 2043 and this burgeoning city of 100,000 is a high-tech Mecca. Using rare plants from the Amazon, university researchers have cured many diseases; factories churn out nano-sponges that soak up oil spills around the world; local software designers are the envy of Palo Alto. Ecuador — once known for its crude and bananas — is now the Silicon Valley of the tropics, the Singapore of the Andes. More...
Chile to Have Free Higher Education by 2016
The Chilean students have been demonstrating since the conservative government of Sebastian Piñera (2010-2014) to demand more equality in access to education.
Chile’s Minister of Interior Rodrigo Peñailillo announced Thursday that university education will be free by 2016. Read more...