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15 février 2015

Fulbright Program Seeks to Get More Community Colleges Involved in Exchanges

By Katherine Mangan. When someone mentions the Fulbright Program, it often evokes images of venerable researchers from elite institutions traveling to far-flung corners of the world. But the U.S. State Department is doing more to make sure that faculty members and others from community colleges also benefit from the exchange program, with the goal of getting more international perspectives into community-college campuses and classrooms. Read more...

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15 février 2015

The Evolution of Altruism

By Oren Harman. It’s one of my favorite Darwin quotes—"He who understands baboon would do more toward metaphysics than Locke"—scribbled furtively in a notebook between visits to the London Zoo in the summer of 1838. Twenty-one years would pass before On the Origin of Species would shock the world, but Darwin already knew: If man wanted to comprehend his mind, he’d need to train an unflustered gaze into the deep caverns of his animal past. Read more...

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15 février 2015

Isolated Scholars: Making Bricks, Not Shaping Policy

By Andrew J. Hoffman. In last month’s State of the Union address, President Obama sounded the alarm on climate change, pausing to enumerate his administration’s accomplishments but also underscoring the problems that lie ahead. Though his speech encompassed myriad issues facing the American public, Obama emphasized that "no challenge—no challenge—poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change." Read more...

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15 février 2015

Congressional Report Blasts 'a Jungle of Red Tape' That Ensnares Colleges

By Kelly Field. The nation’s colleges are "enmeshed in a jungle of red tape," faced with federal regulations that are complicated, costly, and often confusing, according to a new report by a Congressional task force.
The report, produced by the American Council on Education, concludes that too many federal rules are "unnecessarily voluminous and too often ambiguous," with "unreasonable" compliance costs. Read more...

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15 février 2015

Tom Bennett: it's time to tackle the myths in education

By Josie Gurney-Read. Many educational practices have no grounding in scientific research: Tom Bennett says that it's time teachers raised a sceptical eyebrow and confronted the myths. Read more...

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15 février 2015

Female teachers are 'bossy'. Male teachers are 'awesome'

By Radhika Sanghani. An interactive tool reviewing date from RateMyProfessors.com exposes gender biases in how students describe their teachers. Read more...

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15 février 2015

Raising tuition fees is paying off for everyone - except Nick Clegg

By Fraser Nelson. If you’re gifted, poor and set on a degree, then England is the best place to be. The trebling of university tuition fees is regarded as one of the great cruelties of this Coalition, one of the harshest blows dealt by the austerity era. Read more...

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15 février 2015

St Andrews University apologises after wrongly telling hundreds of students their applications were successful

By Auslan Cramb. University sent email offering congratulations in error to nearly 800 would-be students. Read more...

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15 février 2015

Anxiety and depression - universities must respond to demand

By Ruth Caleb. The number of students seeking counselling has increased across the UK, says Dr Ruth Caleb, universities need to make sure that help and services are available. Read more...

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15 février 2015

Dramatic decline in number of university students taking modern foreign languages

By Camilla Turner. French and German entrants have sharply declined over the past seven years, Higher Education Statistics Agency figures show. Read more...

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