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29 août 2015

A unique approach is required when ranking Africa’s universities

By Tyrone Pretorius. There is a new player on the university ranking block – and it focuses exclusively on Africa. The first Times Higher Education African ranking system was unveiled in late July during a conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the days leading up to the conference, a snapshot was released that showed the continent’s top institutions based on a single metric. More...

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29 août 2015

Five things to think about if you’re considering a doctorate

By Sioux McKenna. I was chatting recently to a group of PhD scholars who are about midway through their journey. They are all studying part-time, juggling this will full-time jobs, family commitments and other responsibilities. All agreed that the PhD is a difficult process which requires an enormous amount of time and energy. More...

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29 août 2015

In the push for marketable skills, are we forgetting the beauty and poetry of STEM disciplines?

By Paul Myers. As many seasoned programmers and mathematicians will tell you, there is poetry in technology. In fact, some regard such poetry as being at the heart of what they do.
In the 1980s, Tracy Kidder wrote The Soul of a New Machine, a book about the pressure and effort of building a next-generation computer. But more importantly, that account opened a lot of people’s eyes to the passion and beauty in creating these machines. More...

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29 août 2015

How understanding the prisoner’s dilemma can help bridge liberal and conservative differences

By Dylan Selterman. In my social psychology class, I pose an extra credit question where students choose between having two points or six points added onto their final term paper grade, with the stipulation that if more than 10% of the class chooses six points, no one gets any points. More...

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29 août 2015

Clinton’s debt-free college comes with a price tag

By Donald E. Heller. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton recently released a major policy paper to address the hot topic of college affordability. Her “New College Compact” is an attempt to gain recognition as the candidate who will stand up for college students and their families. More...

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29 août 2015

Far from bust: five ways MOOCs are helping people get on in life

By Lisa Harris and Manuel León Urrutia. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – free, short courses made available to everybody online – were expected to herald the end of higher education as we knew it when they began. But the hype soon died away and critics bemoaned the fact that learners quickly lost enthusiasm and dropped out in large numbers. More...

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29 août 2015

Turning a page: downsizing the campus book collections

By Donald Barclay. When, in 2005, the University of Chicago entered into a US$81 million renovation of a major library building, one of the primary goals was to ensure that the university’s collection of printed books in the social sciences and humanities would remain under one roof. More...

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29 août 2015

When teachers see similarities with students, relationships and grades improve

By Hunter Gehlbach. Many of our world’s most pressing challenges arise between groups who perceive the chasm between their opposing views as too vast to bridge. More...

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29 août 2015

What can the US learn from South Korea’s testing pressures?

By Thomas Owenby. South Korea is often upheld as a model of educational success by policymakers and commentators in the United States.
This is not without reason.
Korean students have consistently performed well on global standardized tests, while US students fall somewhere in the middle. The question is whether South Korea is a good model to emulate. More...

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29 août 2015

Feet on campus, heart at home: first-generation college students struggle with divided identities

By Linda Banks-Santilli. In families, role assignments about work, family, religion and community are passed down through the generations creating “intergenerational continuity.” When a family member disrupts this system by choosing to attend college, he or she experiences a shift in identity, leading to a sense of loss. Not prepared for this loss, many first-generation students may come to develop two different identities – one for home and another for college. More...

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