L’Observatoire national des aides humaines a fait un état des lieux de la visibilité de l’offre de formation continue, spécifiquement à destination des professionnels de l’aide à domicile qui accompagnent des personnes en situation de handicap. Voir l'article...
Building a student-level data system
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. In September 2015, the Obama administration released a massive amount of federal higher education data through a revised College Scorecard. Comprising more than 1,700 indicators for approximately 7,000 colleges, the College Scorecard showed the power of unlocking federal administrative data. More...
Latinos stick with studies at high rates to get higher education
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Students attending Hispanic-Serving Institutions are more likely to stick with their studies than students at all other colleges and universities, even though they may have to stop and start their college careers, a report released Wednesday finds. More...
Who gains from college diversity?
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Even colleges that are less wealthy than Amherst, discussed in the column, now recognize that if you want a highly qualified, dynamic and diverse entering class, you need to offer significant financial aid. Many talented students cannot afford the substantial cost of the immersive, individualized education provided by residential liberal arts colleges. More...
Flywire completes integration with Uni-Pay
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Flywire, a global provider of cross-border payment solutions, today announced that it has completed migration of the Uni-Pay client base onto the Flywire platform, following its October 2015 acquisition of the company. More...
Whom do college-affordability efforts help the most?
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Determined that he and his younger brother would go to college, Eduardo Medina’s parents put money away in a savings account to pay for the tuition. More...
MATC hopes free tuition program will help local students
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Hundreds of low-income high school students across south-central Wisconsin could attend Madison Area Technical College without paying for tuition under a new program that officials hope will help more young people see that college is open to them. More...
Blackbaud launches comprehensive higher ed offering
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. In conjunction with its annual Higher Education and Hospital Forum event, Blackbaud, Inc. (NASDAQ:BLKB), the leading provider of software and services for the global philanthropic community, today announced a new solution offering that combines 35 years of software innovation and industry expertise with value-added services to help higher education institutions excel in fundraising and constituent relationship management. More...
Billions at stake in university patent fights
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A powerful and inexpensive technique for rewriting snippets of DNA — known as CRISPR-Cas9 — has two research institutions locked in a bitter patent battle. On one side is UC Berkeley, where faculty first reported using the gene-editing technology in 2012, on the other, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where faculty won a special expedited patent for the technique in 2014. More...
Aligning career and tech ed efforts
By Stefanie Botelho. Technical education advocates are encouraging Congress to better align programs and efforts under both job training and education laws to help employers find the skilled workers they need. More...