By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. One of the key recommendations of a report drawn up by rectors, government officials, academics and business representatives is that the number of study places available in each discipline should be linked to labor market need, which critics say is the latest sign of utilitarian drift in Danish higher education. More...
Does Online Reinforce the Color Line?
Online education is an engine of racial inequality, argue Christopher Newfield and Cameron Sublett, and no good higher ed policy can be created ignoring that fact. More...
Fake News Forever!
When historians seek to understand historical matters, asks Gerald R. Beasley, where will they turn for information about the deleted accounts of fake news that may have influenced those events. More...
Planned Obsolescence
Most colleges and universities rarely kill academic programs for underperforming. They (and their students) would be better off if they regularly culled programs that aren’t giving graduates the skills they need, Ryan Craig writes. More...
Social Media, Privacy and Technological Change
Scott McLemee reviews new and forthcoming titles from university presses that take up these interconnected subjects. More...
Forging New Territory Online
Eloy Ortiz Oakley says California’s online community college will be a better public alternative to for-profit colleges for the “stranded workers” traditional college systems struggle to serve. More...
Stop Selling Out University Mascots
University athletic programs should not put their school mascots to work off the field and the court selling commercial products, argues Bill Mahon. More...
In a Cardboard Grave
Scott McLemee reviews Alberto Manguel's Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions. More...
When Core Values Collide
Pareena Lawrence explores how colleges can balance diversity and inclusion with free speech. More...
Let’s Fix Completion, Once and for All
With $100 million to win, Wick Sloane urges college leaders at this week’s American Council on Education annual meeting to work on graduating more low-income students and ending poverty. Yes, merely that. More...