By Scott Jaschik. Hartwick, a private institution where three-quarters of enrollees are from New York State, seeks to counter impact of free public tuition. More...
18 décembre 2017
18 décembre 2017
Computer Science as (Foreign Language) Admissions Requirement
By Scott Jaschik. High schools in Georgia see surge in enrollments in computer science, and state leaders are pleased. But are those courses equivalent, as university system admissions requirements now say, to Spanish or French. More...
18 décembre 2017
FTC Wins Ruling on Deceptive Publishing Practices
By Scott Jaschik. A federal judge has awarded the Federal Trade Commission an injunction to block what the FTC considers deceptive publishing practices by OMICS Group and other entities. More...
18 décembre 2017
American U Beirut Drops Sanction of Grad Students
By Scott Jaschik. American University of Beirut announced Friday that it is restoring graduate assistantships to a group of graduate students who had their assistantships withdrawn because of their participation in recent protests. More...
18 décembre 2017
Anger Over Canceled ACT Scores
By Scott Jaschik. A high school in Tennessee, backed by local politicians, isn’t accepting explanations for why scores on test taken in good faith shouldn’t count. More...
17 décembre 2017
The Future of Academe in Zimbabwe
By Holly Else for Times Higher Education. Zimbabwe’s universities must shed politically tainted leaders and rediscover academic freedom in order to fix the damage done to the country’s higher education system by Robert Mugabe, according to researchers who fled his brutal regime. More...
17 décembre 2017
Science Research Jobs, Open Only to Women
By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. Germany’s Max Planck Society of research institutes has launched a women-only program of tenure-track positions to improve its gender balance and stop rivals poaching its best female scientists. More...
17 décembre 2017
Gender Gap in Academic Seminar Questions
By Rachael Pells for Times Higher Education. Men are two and a half times more likely to ask a question in an academic seminar than women, according to a major study that offers further explanation of female underrepresentation in science. More...
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