By Stefanie Botelho. For some first-generation or low-income students, attending an elite university can often be a daunting and anxiety-filled experience. More...
5 août 2015
5 août 2015
Focusing on the final 10 percent
By Stefanie Botelho. As a nation, we are entering the final stretch of the 2020 college completion challenge announced by President Obama in his first joint address to Congress in 2009. The challenge was to have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. More...
5 août 2015
Policies close off opportunities to applicants in need of help
By Stefanie Botelho. Throughout high school, Wellington Coleman did everything he was supposed to do to get into college.
He went to one of New Orleans’ ambitious new charter schools, which focus on preparing students for university-level work. More...
5 août 2015
The divide is growing between what employers and ministers want students to study
By . From this September, all pupils at secondary school will have to study English, a language, maths, science and history or geography at GCSE. This is the English Baccalaureate, or Ebacc, which education minister Nicky Morgan has insisted are core academic subjects that should be taken by all children. More...
5 août 2015
Are Oxbridge tutorials still the best way to teach students how to think?
By and . Special government funding given to Oxford and Cambridge to help pay for the universities' undergraduate tutorial teaching system is coming to an end. Oxford will lose £4.2m and Cambridge £2.7m “institution-specific” funding from the Higher Education Funding Council, which is also used to help fund the universities' undergraduate interview process. More...
5 août 2015
Inside Out: what universities can learn from Pixar about emotions
By . The latest Disney Pixar film Inside Out takes the viewer inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl, Riley. Her brain’s “headquarters” are run by five emotions: joy, sadness, fear, anger and disgust. More...5 août 2015
Who goes to university? The changing profile of our students
By . Higher education is a major determinant of a population’s knowledge and skills, workforce participation, employment, incomes, economic growth, immigration, family formation, and of the educational attainment and future prosperity of subsequent generations. More...5 août 2015
How do we value universities?
By . We have become accustomed to hearing the benefits of higher education measured in economic terms. But is this the only way we value them. More...5 août 2015
Students' low financial literacy makes understanding fees, loans, debt difficult
By . Financial literacy in Australian is low, particularly so in those under 25 years of age. What might be surprising is that it is low even among university students. More...5 août 2015
Universities can’t just wash their hands of student failure
By and . It should come as no surprise that many students do not feel valued in institutional spaces. There has been a great deal of research in the past two decades about discrimination and institutional culture at South African universities. It is becoming increasingly clear that attempts by institutions to understand and address these issues have been superficial and frequently too defensive. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)