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2 mars 2014

US university to open campus in Mexico, making history

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Peta Lee. Mexico’s higher education institutions serve more than 2.5 million students, which is about 30% of the university age population. According to ICEF Monitor, by 2020 the government hopes to expand the figure to 50%. Read more...
2 mars 2014

Popping the higher education bubble

The Boston GlobeBy James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley. Last week, Kenneth Griffin, the founder and CEO of the investment firm Citadel, announced a gift of $150 million to Harvard University to subsidize financial aid. It’s not only Harvard that’s back in the money. A survey earlier this month showed that giving to colleges and universities was back at pre-recession levels, with a record $33.8 billion in charitable contributions during the 2013 fiscal year, almost a 10 percent increase over 2012. Most of this increase was, according to the survey by the Council for Aid to Education, “due to the rebounding in the stock market.”
This is great news for higher education but bad news for higher education reformers who have been hoping that the financial crunch might cause colleges to rethink their operating assumptions. More...

2 mars 2014

Resolving Higher Education's Challenges

The Huffington PostBy Jonathan M. Brand. The destructive negative news about our higher education system keeps coming, but there is very little coverage in the national media about why colleges and universities might not be addressing perceived shortcomings as rapidly or comprehensively as students, their families, external organizations or the media wishes, or on what creative solutions might realistically exist. After all, a robust higher education system is critical for national economic competitiveness and our vibrancy matters for this country. More...

2 mars 2014

A second look at Canada’s adult literacy and numeracy skills

By Léo Charbonneau. There were concerns in the media last October about Canada’s literacy and numeracy results in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, or PIAAC. An OECD initiative, PIAAC was created to assess adult skills and competencies in three main areas: literacy, numeracy and what the OECD terms “problem solving in a rich technology environment” or what we might call digital skills. The October 2013 Survey of Adult Skills, from 24 participating countries and sub-national regions, was the first release of PIAAC data. Read more...
2 mars 2014

CAUT’s proposed censure of King’s College: the view of King’s faculty

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQWMTBx0CPzMFK637Zb6AgNbjhxfVRtTVkrwKoq4ZPL2p18KKWOEwB3AWIBy Peter Ibbott, Kristin Lozanski and Graham Broad. CAUT’s censure will harm the reputation and academic freedom of the very faculty CAUT purports to defend. In May, the Canadian Association of University Teachers will seek a motion of censure against King’s University College in London, Ontario. CAUT claims that King’s administration violated Ken Luckhardt’s academic freedom by banning him from King’s. King’s University College Faculty Association (KUCFA) will oppose this motion because censuring King’s will undermine the academic freedom of King’s faculty. More...

2 mars 2014

Markets and Rules

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/confessions_of_a_community_college_dean_blog_header.jpgBy Matt Reed. It took me a few attempts to read this piece in the New York Times, about for-profit colleges, to figure out why it bothered me as much as it did.  It’s not the subject matter, exactly.  It’s the inattention to basic detail, based, I think, on a fundamental theoretical mistake. Read more...
2 mars 2014

Sallie Mae Splits In Two, Names New Loan Servicing Unit 'Navient'

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Sallie Mae’s loan servicing operations will soon be housed in a separate business entity called Navient, the company announced Tuesday. As it first disclosed last year, Sallie Mae--formally known as SLM Corp.-- is in the process of splitting up into two distinct companies: Navient and Sallie Mae. Read more...

2 mars 2014

The States and Their Higher Ed Policy Shortcomings

HomeStates' failures to use their money strategically; align their educational offerings to students' needs; and help students move from K-12 to higher education combine to limit their ability to close higher education and attainment gaps and produce more educated work forces at a time of great need, a new report asserts. Read more...
2 mars 2014

Higher Ed Groups Ask IRS Not To Change Political Activity Rules

HomeA coalition of higher education associations on Thursday urged the Obama administration not to apply to colleges and universities its proposed rules on political activity by certain tax-exempt nonprofit organizations. The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have been seeking public comments on their proposal to more clearly define what constitutes political campaign-related activity at “social welfare” nonprofits, which are organized under section 501(c)4 of the tax code. Read more...
2 mars 2014

Rainforest U.

HomeBy Donna Bowater for Times Higher Education. Across the river from the congested metropolis of Manaus, nothing but dense green forest lines the banks of the Negro river in the Brazilian Amazon. Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonas and host city to England’s opening match against Italy in the forthcoming FIFA World Cup, is an urban oasis surrounded by more than 5 million sq km of rainforest, the largest expanse of jungle in the world. Read more...
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