Why Schools Should Not Teach General Critical-Thinking Skills
Students need to be given real and significant things from the world to think with and about if teachers want to influence how they do that thinking.
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Report Urges Program Data Transparency and a Focus on Core Competencies in Graduate STEM Education
The Wealth Gap PLUS Debt: How Federal Loans Exacerbate Inequality for Black Families
The Wealth Gap PLUS Debt: How Federal Loans Exacerbate Inequality for Black Families
Something strange began happening with a U.S. Department of Education loan program known as Parent PLUS, under which parents borrow money from the government to finance their children’s education.
Do Swiss Universities Offer the Best Value for Money?
A meta-analysis combining the most popular university rankings to find out which ones are best, and showing which university offers the best value for the money. Spoiler: Switzerland, for once, is a good deal.
Why We Should Bulldoze the Business School
There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many.
Battle over College Course Material Is a Textbook Example of Technological Change
Battle over College Course Material Is a Textbook Example of Technological Change
A revolution in college course materials is raising questions about cost, access, and fairness. Publishers say their high-tech courseware - electronic books glowing with videos and interactive study guides - can improve the quality of learning at a small fraction of the cost of traditional textbooks. But student advocates call for adoption of open-source textbooks that can be downloaded for free and worry that the same companies that drove up the price of print textbooks are dominating the digital space and will ultimately introduce higher costs there.
Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed Back The Pace?
Why do we forget so much of what we read? Anthropologist Barbara J. King suggests that the answer might point toward benefits of a slower pace of teaching in the college classroom.
Girls Led to Science, Coding by Retired Educator Who Saw the Need for High-tech Options
Grad Tuition Waiver Tax Dead, Student Loan Interest Deduction Saved in Final GOP Bill
Rwanda's First All-Female University Is Training Up The Next Generation Of Women Leaders
EU to Prioritise Deeper Higher Education Cooperation and Mobility
European leaders and the European Commission have backed proposals to step up higher education mobility and exchanges and create a network of European universities with integrated study programmes and curricula that enable students to study abroad.
More Than 100 Universities and Colleges in Offshore Leaks Data
More than 100 educational institutions, including some of the world's most prestigious, appear linked to blocker funds and other offshore investments.
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