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17 janvier 2019

A century of adult education has been tossed aside – is it too late to rescue it?

The GuardianIn 1919 local councils were given the task of educating the public. Now a centenary commission is looking to salvage what is left. More...

17 janvier 2019

Le malheur est dans le pré : des lycéens enquêtent sur la Grande Guerre

Screenshot-2018-5-7 Education – Views Research – The ConversationComment intéresser des jeunes de 16 ans au premier conflit mondial autrement que par la lecture de lettres de poilus ou la sempiternelle visite d’un monument aux morts ? Comment rendre palpable la violence de la guerre et ses conséquences dans une région située aux antipodes de la ligne de front. More...

16 janvier 2019

UKCISA celebrates 50 years of student support

By Viggo Stacey. In 2018, the national advisory body for international students in Britain, UKCISA, celebrates both its work and that of international students on British communities, 50 years since the council’s foundation. More...

13 janvier 2019

Why Study History?

HomeLike every other historian in higher education, I followed with rapt attention the reactions to a recent study about the declining number of history majors. More...

8 janvier 2019

Raconter au XXI ème siècle

logoCe goût de se faire raconter des histoires ne change pas. Ce qui change est notre façon de raconter. Des sagas continuent de s’écrire, «Le Seigneur des anneaux» et «Harry Potter» en sont des exemples, mais leur but, leur contenu et leur forme n’ont rien à voir avec ceux de récits comme l’Odyssée ou Béowulf. Par exemple, le rythme de l’action s’accélère et la densité d’émotions augmente. Il semble que les impératifs marketing les nécessitent. Les 12 travaux d’Hercule sont condensés en 1h50. On raconte toujours la même histoire, mais l’attention n’est plus mise sur les mêmes éléments. Plus...

6 janvier 2019

Whose Words These Are

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/library_babel_fish_blog_header.jpgBy Barbara Fister. ... I think I know. Welcome to the public domain, 1923. More...

6 janvier 2019

Newbury College provides early notice in closing announcement

HomeBy Rick Seltzer. The small private college was founded in 1962 in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston as the Newbury School of Business. It moved multiple times, settling in Brookline, outside the city, in 1982. It became Newbury Junior College in 1971, changed its name to Newbury College in 1985, and became a baccalaureate college in 1994. More...

6 janvier 2019

Students Charged in Vandalism of Abolitionist's Statue

HomeBy Greg Toppo. St. John Fisher College said two of its students were charged in the vandalism of a statue of Frederick Douglass near downtown Rochester, N.Y. More...

6 janvier 2019

UNC board rejects plan for Confederate monument

HomeBy Scott Jaschik. Opposition grew to a proposal to build a history center to house Silent Sam. System board now orders new review of options. More...

6 janvier 2019

‘Diploma Mill’

HomeIn April 1871 The College Courant, which was something like the Inside Higher Ed of its day, reprinted an article that had run a short time earlier in The Philadelphia Press, one of the city's numerous papers. More...

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