We introduced anti-discrimination legislation across Australia between the 1970s and 1990s, but then we centralised curriculum and assessment between 2008 and 2010. One move opened up more opportunities for equity, while the other restricted the ability of teachers to make autonomous decisions in response to their local needs and values. More...
By Joshua Kim. Rejecting the superstar city in favor of the college town. More...
By Joshua Kim. Is higher ed one potential antidote to the growing rural/urban divide. More...
By Rick Seltzer. A U.S. Department of Agriculture program has provided $1.7 billion in grants and low-cost loans to struggling rural colleges and universities in the last three years. That raises questions about who closes and who gets to stay open. More...
Sur le blog de Michel Abhervé pour Alternatives économiques. Belle illustration d'une politique qui oublie les territoires, la fermeture décidée du centre d'application de l'École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort, à Champignelles dans l'Yonne, au centre d'une zone d'élevage où 400 futurs vétérinaires descendent chaque année de la banlieue de Paris pour asseoir leurs compétences «théoriques» dans la réalité «pratique» du monde agricole. Plus...
A new commission at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is focusing on what it means to be a small and rural college in America today. More...
I’m writing from Manus Island, a place where I and more than 600 men have been held for more than five years. More...Spring was in the air when I made my annual trek to New England to meet the ever-optimistic Cal D’Aria. It is more than a decade since Cal transformed the sleepy little Tamworth Hairdressing College into Tam U. More...
For our recently published study, we looked at how poverty and educational attainment are linked in rural Wales. We spoke to children, teachers and other key stakeholders to explore the problems that they experience and perceive. We also looked at national, regional and local plans and policies for combating poverty and increasing educational attainment in pupils. More...
By Rick Seltzer. Alumni donors help push charitable totals to $43.6 billion in 2017.
Colleges and universities raised a total of $43.6 billion in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, according to results from the latest version of the annual Voluntary Support of Education survey from the Council for Aid to Education, which is being released today. The fund-raising total is up 6.3 percent from 2016 -- 3.7 percent after adjusting for inflatioColleges often go about recruiting rural students in the wrong way, admissions experts say. But they can commit to better practices if they recognize "rurality is different everywhere." More...
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