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30 août 2015

Liberal arts ‘revival’ needs to take account of non-Western traditions

By Karen MacGregor – Acting Global Editor. This week in Commentary, Philip G Altbach argues that in the current (modest) revival of liberal arts globally, rich non-Western educational traditions have been largely ignored. Ielyzaveta Shchepetylnykova charts challenges and progress in Ukraine’s efforts to implement the Bologna process and improve higher education data and analysis. Nico Cloete draws on data and arguments from a forthcoming book on the doctorate in South Africa to illustrate how unhelpful the raging ‘transformation’ of higher education debate has become.
Marguerite Dennis and Richard Lynch contend that universities need to adopt ‘blue ocean’ thinking and strategies for a higher education future that is likely to be online and international. In World Blog, Grace Karram Stephenson writes about a case in Canadian higher education where academics kicked back against ‘market forces’.
In Features, Peta Lee finds in a recent study from the European Parliament that more work needs to be done to blend online and onsite education in order to truly internationalise the learning experience. And Nic Mitchell reports on the European University Association response to the European Union’s ‘Neighbourhood Policy’. Read more...

30 août 2015

Appeals Court Denies Request to Block U. of Texas Plan to Move Confederate Statue

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . A Texas appeals court declined a request on Friday from the Sons of Confederate Veterans to block a lower court ruling that allowed the University of Texas at Austin to move statues of Jefferson Davis and Woodrow Wilson to a less-prominent position on the campus, the Austin American-Statesman reports. More...

30 août 2015

Dept. of Education Failed to Hold Loan-Management Company Accountable, Audit Finds

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . The Education Department failed to hold Xerox Education Solutions, a company it had contracted to track and service student loans, accountable for fixing persistent problems in its student-debt-management system, the agency’s inspector general said in an audit report released on Thursday. More...

30 août 2015

Rutgers Will Give Aid to Health Majors to Offset Tuition Increase

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . Rutgers University will offer scholarships to freshmen to offset the costs of a 60 percent increase in tuition that some students said surprised them, NJ Advance Media reported. More...

30 août 2015

Federal Agency Asks Career Education Corp. About Its Business Practices

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . The Career Education Corporation, which operates a number of career-oriented schools and colleges, disclosed on Monday that it has received a request for information from the Federal Trade Commission as part of that agency’s broad investigation into potentially unfair advertising, marketing, and other business practices by for-profit colleges. In a corporate filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said it intended to cooperate with the FTC. More...

30 août 2015

Less Than Half of Major Social-Science Studies Are Reproducible, Analysis Says

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . A study has found that fewer than half of 100 major studies in the social sciences could be replicated to produce similar results, The New York Times reports. Published in Science, the analysis was conducted by a team of researchers led by Brian Nosek, a psychologist at the University of Virginia. More...

30 août 2015

Ta-Da! U. of Pennsylvania’s ‘No-Loan’ Financial-Aid Policy Becomes ‘All-Grant’

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . The University of Pennsylvania has a new financial-aid policy. Or, at least, a new name for it.
The university’s student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, reports that Penn changed the name of its financial-aid policy this summer from “no-loan” to “all-grant.” A no-loan policy is one in which the university does not give out loans as part of financial-aid packages, instead relying primarily on grants. More...

30 août 2015

This Is How Students Cheat in MOOCs

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . Researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have identified a way students are cheating to earn credit in MOOCs. The method is the subject of a working paper, “Detecting and Preventing ‘Multiple-Account’ Cheating in Massive Open Online Courses,” published online on Monday. More...

30 août 2015

Hocking College Fires 13 Faculty Members, Some of Whom Lacked Degrees

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . Hocking College has fired 13 faculty members in the past few months because they lacked academic credentials, The Athens Messenger reports. The Ohio college says the dismissals were prompted by new requirements from its accreditor that faculty members must hold degrees in their fields of teaching. More...

30 août 2015

Parenting, 1 and 2

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/linguafranca-45.pngBy . I hadn’t given Parent 1 and Parent 2 a thought before I saw the headline on Tennessee’s “reversal” of its “ban on ‘mother’ and ‘father.’” Huh, I thought. How had I missed news of a state’s banning mothers. More...

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