By Stefanie Botelho. President Barack Obama is not acting like someone whose party suffered heavy defeats in the recent midterm election. More...
15 février 2015
15 février 2015
From Shakespeare to Spielberg
By Stefanie Botelho. Students today primarily get their entertainment from the Internet, says veteran UBTech speaker Brian Klaas. More...
15 février 2015
More than half of all graduates say grads will see a lower return on ROI
By Stefanie Botelho. More than half of all college graduates (55 percent) say recent graduates will see a lower return on investment (ROI) from their education than college graduates 10 to 15 years ago, according to the 2015 College Degree Investment Survey conducted by Nielsen (formerly Harris Interactive) on behalf of Greenwood Hall Inc. More...
15 février 2015
Report Details the Worker Complaints That Blurred N.Y.U.’s Emirates Vision
By . Like other Persian Gulf states, the United Arab Emirates imports much of its labor force from Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines. And it imports prestige from liberal Western institutions like universities and museums.
Among them is New York University, which has settled into a campus built for it — free, thanks to capital from the Emirates and the cheap labor of migrant workers — on an island called Saadiyat, which is being developed by the Emirates as a cultural center and a temple to lavish, luxe, yacht-borne life. More...
15 février 2015
No profit left behind
By Stephanie Simon. In the high-stakes world of American education, Pearson makes money even when its results don’t measure up. More...
15 février 2015
College completion could weigh heavily on performance funding for higher education
By Morgan Jacobsen. Legislators considered a model for higher education performance-based funding Monday that looks quite different from the one used by Utah's colleges and universities last year. And with the legislative session now in its third week, the time crunch is setting in for lawmakers to reach a consensus about what performance funding, at least in broad terms, should look like for Utah's eight public colleges and universities. More...
15 février 2015
What will higher education look like in 2020?
By Gary Newbold. The BYOD trend is gaining popularity in Asia-Pacific and the region will continue to witness strong growth, driven by burgeoning consumer demand for smartphone and tablet. In 2013, mobile devices utilized under the BYOD model accounted for 22.5 percent of all consumer smartphone sales, followed by notebook PCs (11.7 percent) and tablets (4.9 percent). More...
15 février 2015
Degrees don’t matter anymore, skills do
By Miles Kimball. If I were to make a nomination for the most destructive belief in our culture, it would be the belief that some people are born smart and others are born dumb. This belief is not only badly off target as a shorthand description of reality, it is the source of many social pathologies and lost opportunities. For example:
- Those who get low test scores think they are just not as smart and avoid tough majors that lead to some of the best jobs.
- A strong belief within an academic field that talent is innate goes along with that field having fewer women and African-Americans.
- Many people utter the black magic spell “I’m bad at math” and it becomes so. A lucky few have that spell broken, and find they can become good at math after all.
People misunderstand the past and imagine a dystopian future, not realizing that each generation is smarter than the last. More...
15 février 2015
Community colleges looking at four-year degrees
By . Illinois community college presidents are pushing for the ability to grant students four-year degrees in some programs.
The controversial idea, if adopted, would make Illinois the 22nd state to grant baccalaureate degrees at the traditionally two-year institutions. More...
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