By Scott Jaschik. A quick exchange on a university's faculty discussion board has led experts in Appalachian studies to consider again whether bias in academe (and society) is too accepted when it is about the people of the region they study. Read more...
By Carl Straumsheim. The faculty leaders behind the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education continued their barrage against massive open online courses on Tuesday, challenging the providers to come clean on “overblown, misleading or simply false” rhetoric.
In letters blasted off last week to the founders of Coursera, edX and Udacity, the organization expresses its concern that the MOOC providers are motivated not by the “needs of our students, but the needs of [their] investors.” Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Colleges may soon have a new reason -- an antitrust lawsuit -- to think twice about their relationship with the Common Application. CollegeNET, which provides a variety of admissions-related services to college, some in direct competition with the Common Application, sued Common App last week in federal court, charging antitrust violations. Read more...
By Julie Hare for The Australian. Australia's conservative government this week proposed a raft of drastic changes to higher education policies that will, taken together, mean that students are picking up a significantly greater share of the cost of their educations. The government, in its 2014 budget plan, gave universities the green light to set their own tuition fees. Read more...
By Paul Fain. The decline in overall college enrollment has slowed this spring, according to new data the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center released today. And some details are emerging about the groups of students who are less likely to attend college in declining sectors. Read more...
By Stephen Hoare for Times Higher Education. Walking a diplomatic tightrope between neighboring Ukraine and Russia, Belarus – a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States – is attempting to adopt liberal market-led policies to improve the quality of its higher education and to attract more international students. Read more...
By Doug Lederman. The Obama administration on Thursday formally unveiled a new program its officials hope will spur innovation, improve college access and completion, and cut student costs. Yes, that's all it aims to do. Read more...
By Lawrence Wakefield. Singapore and Korea stride up the QS rankings, while Hong Kong and Japan see their institutions take a tumble. The National University of Singapore (NUS) has topped the QS Asian university rankings for the first time, rising from second place in last year's table. More...
By Maya Oppenheim. With no interest to pay while you study, CDLs are an attractive option for cash-strapped postgrads – but there are financial risks. Funding is the biggest headache faced by students wanting to continue their studies after their undergrad degree. Taught master's degrees no longer qualify for research council funding, and while some students manage to put together a funding package through scholarships and sponsorships, others are drawn to taking out a bank loan. More...
By Kit Buchan. Internet-based education offers everything from a free maths lecture to a full course on ancient Roman history. But it has its critics.
1 "E-learning" is a very broad term
It refers to all internet-based education, which could be anything from a free maths lecture on iTunes to a colour-coded language app or even a fully interactive eight-week course in musculoskeletal anatomy from Harvard. More...
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