By Paul Fain. In a rare point of agreement, the Trump administration and many academics would like to see less focus on colleges as work force development centers. Read more...
11 avril 2017
11 avril 2017
College Degrees for Entry-Level Jobs
By Paul Fain. A new study from the Rockefeller Foundation and Edelman Intelligence questions whether the college degree is the best way to screen candidates for entry-level jobs. Read more...
11 avril 2017
Merger Between Assessment Firms Taskstream and Tk20
By Paul Fain. Taskstream, a New York City-based company that works with colleges and higher education associations on assessment, accreditation and e-portfolios, this week announced that it is merging with Tk20, an Austin, Tex.-based firm that also provides services related to learning assessment and accreditation. Read more...
11 avril 2017
A Step Ahead of For-Profits
By Ashley A. Smith. With a federal government that now appears sympathetic to for-profit colleges, city officials in Milwaukee seek to block institutions that violate Obama-era regulations. Read more...
11 avril 2017
The Free Certificate Movement
By Ashley A. Smith. But in Indiana, a new proposal -- the Workforce Ready Grant -- would instead offer free community college to those students who want a certificate in a high-demand field. While the certificates would vary by program, they typically take anywhere from 18 to 34 credit hours to complete or at most one year for a full-time student. Read more...
11 avril 2017
A Promise With Limits
By Ashley A. Smith. Arkansas becomes latest state to create a free community college plan. But it limits programs of study and could require some recipients to pay back the money. Read more...
11 avril 2017
Russia's International Student Strategy
By Jack Grove for Times Higher Education. About 283,000 international students studied at Russian universities last year, making it the sixth-largest market for globally mobile students, behind only the United States, Britain, China, France and Australia, figures gathered by the Institute of International Education’s Project Atlas study show. Read more...
11 avril 2017
The Peace Process and Higher Ed in Colombia
By Matthew Reisz for Times Higher Education. The country has some strong universities, but many institutions struggle to serve impoverished students. Read more...
11 avril 2017
In France, Job Security and Low Salaries
By Jack Grove for Times Higher Education. Professors’ civil servant status provides some benefits, but not much in terms of compensation.
University professors in France are paid far less than their peers in other countries, as state bureaucracy prevents top researchers from negotiating higher salaries, a new analysis suggests.
“After taxes and charges, full professors should expect at least 40,000 pounds [$50,000] in Britain, 40,000 euros [$43,000] in Germany and $50,000 in American public universities, but (theoretically) they can receive just over €30,000 [$32,000] in France,” said Angermuller, who is also a member of the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, a grande école that is part of Paris’s PSL Research University. Read more...
11 avril 2017
Unreadable Science Abstracts
By Holly Else for Times Higher Education. The readability of scientific abstracts is declining, according to the preliminary results of a major study. Read more...
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