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28 juillet 2013

Embargoes for Dissertations?

By Scott Jaschik. The American Historical Association has released a policy calling on history departments and university libraries to allow students to place embargoes on the online versions of Ph.D. dissertations in the field for up to six years. The association says that such a policy is needed to enable new Ph.D.s to successfully publish books based on their dissertations. But some historians are upset about the proposal, which they say isn't needed and runs counter to the scholarly mission of sharing research findings. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

Differential Tuition Impact

By Scott Jaschik. When public universities impose higher tuition rates on some academic programs, students are discouraged to enroll in some fields, according to a new study. Engineering enrollments declined by 1.1 percentage points (on a base of 14.7 percent) three years after the imposition of higher tuition for the field, found the study, which examined public research universities with differential tuition. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

Different Kind of Ranking?

By Elizabeth Redden. The common criticisms of global university rankings are well-known. In emphasizing publications and citations, they are relevant for only the most elite research universities – the “top 200” or 500 worldwide. They fail to adequately evaluate or account for the diverse activities of any single institution, not least teaching. Technology transfer is likewise under-weighted – if it is considered at all -- even as two of the three major global rankings rely heavily on subjective reputational data and the third bases 30 percent of its ranking on the numbers of alumni and faculty with Nobel Prizes or Fields Medals. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

Free Courses for a Big Problem

By Paul Fain. Free online courses have run into a backlash of late. But a handful of community colleges may have found a way to dial up open-source content to help tackle one of higher education’s thorniest problems: remedial education. The two-year colleges aren’t offering massive open online courses as substitutes for their offerings, however, or for the instructors who teach them. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

Students Under Financial Stress

By Julie Hare for The Australian. Two-thirds of all Australian university students live on less than $20,000 a year, with one in five surviving on less than $10,000, placing them below the poverty line and facing rising levels of debt. A report by the group Universities Australia, to be released today, says the average debt carried by an undergraduate student has soared over the past six years, rising from $28,800 to $37,200. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

No-Bid MOOCs

By Ry Rivard. The providers of massive open online courses have rapidly expanded in the past year, aided in part by a series of potentially lucrative no-bid deals with public colleges and universities, including for services that may extend beyond the MOOC model. At least 21 universities and higher education systems in 16 states have signed agreements with Coursera, Udacity or edX without going through a competitive bidding process, according to interviews and open records requests by Inside Higher Ed. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

(Another) Apparent Loan Deal

By Doug Lederman. The months-long saga to try to reset the interest rates on federal student loans appeared near an end Wednesday night, as Senate negotiators said they had reached a deal that would tie rates to the market and set the rate for all undergraduate loans at 3.86 percent in 2014. But then again, the same parties -- led by Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Dick Durbin and Republicans Richard Burr and Lamar Alexander -- thought they had reached a deal last Wednesday, too, and that one fell through hours later. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

Times Higher Education Best University Workplace survey

Tell us what you love (or loathe) about your institution. What’s the best thing about working at your university? How do your colleagues and managers make you feel valued? In what areas do you need more support? These are among the questions we will be asking in the inaugural Times Higher Education Best University Workplace survey, which is online now. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

Open University leaves Alliance to become non-aligned

By Chris Parr. The Open University has ended its six-and-a-half-year affiliation with the University Alliance mission group. The departure of the distance-learning institution, which had been a member of the group since it was established in 2007, means that 23 universities are now part of the Alliance. Read more...

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28 juillet 2013

PhD success forecast improves, but still gloomy for some

By Paul Jump. The proportion of PhD students in England expected to obtain degrees has risen slightly, but at some institutions around a fifth may never qualify. According to a report published on July 26 by England’s funding council, 72.9 per cent of the 11,625 students from the UK or the EU who began full-time doctorates in 2010-11 will obtain a degree within seven years. This compares with 70.1 per cent who started in 2009-10 and 70.5 per cent in 2008-09. Read more...

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