By Benjamin Plackett. Hoda Elmikaty knows more about the Bibliotheca Alexandrina than most. As an electrical engineer she started working on its complex of cables and wires during construction.
She has since put her engineering expertise to one side and has risen through the library’s ranks to become the head of its cultural outreach center, where she seeks to make good on the library’s promise to fill the shoes of its historical counterpart. More...
By . “Learning Arabic, as an engineer, doesn’t add much,” says Mr. Hamdy. “But learning English adds a lot. To get into a good multinational company, for sure it’s useful.” More...
By Jon Marcus. There’s a saying in famously egalitarian Norway that Curt Rice, the American-born incoming president of the country’s third-biggest university, likes to rattle off: “We’re all sitting in the same boat.” More...
By . Salman Mousa, who is 28 years old, did not regret for one day not joining the university. After receiving his high school diploma, he went straight to the job market. More...
By Andrew Barbour. The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) announced the 100 STEM faculty leaders from 76 institutions of higher education who have been selected to participate in the 2015 PKAL Summer Leadership Institutes. More...
By Andrew Barbour. As higher education pivots away from the liberal arts in favor of more career-focused degrees, a new online learning platform is hoping to fill the vacuum by offering low-cost arts courses online—for credit or otherwise. More...
By Carly Morales. Institutions need to create layered, blended and personalized places that support a variety of interactions and digital platforms, rather than creating specialized spaces, such as computer labs. More...
By Mike Sweet. In today’s fast-paced economy, employers need new hires who can fail fast, solve problems quickly, and learn continuously. At the core of these abilities are critical thinking and information literacy skills. More...
The UC Irvine School of Humanities has received a $2.7 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund a pilot program that aims to transform graduate education by streamlining the time to degree, providing full funding throughout the degree program, and establishing a teaching and research position of up to two years for all candidates who complete their dissertation in five years. More...
Many higher-ed institutions are turning to online models to more cheaply deliver certain kinds of courses and assess student learning. Is this, in fact, a good or sustainable strategy? What role does technology have to reduce the costs of delivering post-secondary education. More...
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