By Benjamin Wermund. Students attending Texas public colleges now are paying a much higher price for their education than they would have a decade ago.
Tuition at universities in Texas has skyrocketed, and many blame a 2003 decision by the state Legislature to give schools free rein over what they charge for running up the costs. Before then, the state was able to regulate tuition, and though lawmakers allowed tuition to rise sharply and steadily in the decade leading up to deregulation, the cost of college has grown at a faster clip since. More...

By Kristina A. Bicher. Can an online course revive interest in the classics?
It’s 3 a.m. and the emails are coming in fast and furious. My iPhone is pinging like a Vegas slot machine that’s come up all cherries. What’s the emergency? I had just joined a discussion thread for a popular online poetry class—ModPo—and Emily Dickinson’s "Volcanoes Be in Sicily" is the subject of hot debate. Within 24 hours, there are over a hundred posts about this poem alone: "Why the archaic use of 'be'?" "What of the perplexing 'lava steps'?" One participant lapses into German and has started a discussion group in Switzerland. More...

By John Hageman. GRAND FORKS - North Dakota legislators introduced a bill Thursday that would grant university students and student organizations the right to be represented by an attorney during university disciplinary proceedings. More...

By Abby Miller. At the heart of this country's vast income inequality -- an issue which has at last been gaining the urgent attention it deserves -- is a growing educational divide. A college degree is the ticket to employment and better quality of life, yet it is more than ever unattainable for those who need it most: the growing number of low-income, first-generation college-going, adult, and immigrant populations; college students who until recently were referred to as "nontraditional". More...

By Sean Braswell. Imagine a democracy where the children of former public officials had a leg up for winning an elected office themselves — a 10,000-vote head start, perhaps, or a seat on the county council reserved especially for them.
Most Americans rightly would scoff at a system that so brazenly allocated rewards based on who your parents are. And yet most American colleges and universities do just that. More...

By Jessica Mazzola. The second-largest public college in the state is facing some criticism from students and graduates after agreeing to spend more than $200,000 on a 12-foot bronze statue of its mascot.
According to school officials, trustees at Montclair State University approved the purchase of a large sculpture of a Red Hawk at their October meeting. More...

Par Fériel Boudjelal. Admission Post-Bac est le rendez-vous incontournable pour les élèves de terminale souhaitant s’inscrire dans l’enseignement supérieur. Cette plateforme a été mise en place en 2009 pour simplifier les démarches de pré-inscription en regroupant sur un seul site près de 11.200 formations publiques et privées. Toutefois, quelques établissements sont exclus du système APB. C’est par exemple le cas de certaines écoles d’ingénieurs, du social, de commerce ou des instituts d’études politiques. Voir l'article...

Par Elsa Doladille. L’emploi scientifique en France progresse régulièrement en France depuis le début des années 2000, selon l’édition 2014 du rapport « L’état de l’emploi scientifique en France« , publié en début de semaine par le ministre de l’Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche.
Ainsi, la population de l’emploi scientifique (regroupant « l’ensemble des personnes travaillant directement sur des projets de recherche et de développement) a augmenté de 22 % entre 2001 et 2011, atteignant en cette dernière année 402 300 équivalents temps plein (ETP). Les chercheurs constituent l’essentiel de ces effectifs (62 %), leur nombre augmentant en moyenne de 3,4 % par an depuis le début des années 2000. Voir l'article...

Close to 200 students from Equatorial Guinea are stranded in Zimbabwe following a botched exchange programme between the two governments.
President Mugabe and The Equatorial Guinea leader, Obiang Nguema, have been close friends since the former’s security operatives forestalled a coup in Malabo a decade ago. More...

By Aina Katsikas. Academic achievement hasn't improved much, so why are college-goers getting higher GPAs than ever before?
It’s raining As in America’s higher education system, and not necessarily because students are particularly smart. In fact, many of them probably don’t deserve the high marks they’re getting. They have grade inflation to thank. More...