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• Bullet points

  
  Midwest Voices - — Authority: 682
  By Tom Ryan, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel People who use bullets to express beliefs feed those who write. The material seems endless lately and journalists have more material than they can handle and comprehend. read more
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• Higher Ed Group Takes Aim at Tuition Tax

  
  WDUQNews — Authority: 441
  Calling it “completely unfair” the Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education (PCHE) took its first shot at Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s proposed 1% tax on tuition paid to Pittsburgh based colleges and Universities. Ravenstahl will use the 16 million dollars generated from the Secondary Education Privilege Tax, which he ...
  3 hours ago

• Press Release: 175,000 students still waiting for grants and loans

  
  David Willetts — Authority: 110
  New figures from the Student Loans Company show that 176,000 students have still not received maintenance payments, more than a month after their courses started, following the collapse in the student finance system this year. Shadow Higher Education Minister, John Hayes, has still not received a response to his ...
  6 hours ago

• Student fees review must have depth | Wes Streeting

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Students are worried the higher education finance review is just an excuse to raise fees, but we will fight our corner At last, after months of anticipation, the higher education finance review has been announced by the government. It certainly isnt being welcomed with a fanfare by students. Chaired by Lord Browne, ...
  8 hours ago

• Special Programs Help First Generation College Students

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 436
  Parents can impart the hazy life lessons they learned during their college careers as their high-schoolers tour the grounds. But some potential students dont have a built-in family support system to bounce college plans off of. Theyre the first family member to take on college. Some colleges have scholarships designed ...
  8 hours ago

• Four Keys to Writing a Great College Application Statement

  
  Becoming Who You Want To Be — Authority: 151
  Among all of the paperwork that accompanies your college application, your personal statement has a distinctly different purpose. It has a big role in defining who you are and getting started can feel daunting. If you keep a few simple things in mind as you start, youll be off to a good start: Post Excerpt from: ...
  8 hours ago

• Real Estate Slump Allows IHEs To Expand Their Campuses

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 436
  Columbia university snapped up the Arbor, a nine-story building at 235th Street and the Henry Hudson Parkway, in July 2008 for $67 million after the developer struggled to sell the condominiums.  Other colleges have taken advantage of the real estate slump to push expansion plans. In Providence, R.I., Johnson ...
  8 hours ago

• Crib sheet email 10.11.09

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Miniskirt backlash, thespian provocation and the remarkable sex life of bats To get Crib sheet as an email, sign up here While Brazils eyes are glued on the length of students skirts , universities in the UK are focused on the cost of learning . Both, it seems, are going up. In schools news, look out this week ...
  10 hours ago

• Universities are not there to spoon-feed | AC Grayling

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 154
  Peter Mandelson wants more contact hours in higher education, but this would reduce students ability to think for themselves Both the National Union of Students and Lord Mandelson, whose ministerial brief includes higher education, are making an issue of the number of "contact hours" between faculty and students, ...
  11 hours ago

• Student leaders warn fees could soar as review is launched

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Former BP chief executive Lord Browne appointed to chair investigation into system Student leaders are warning that tuition fees could soar after a review was launched yesterday to overhaul the student funding system. The former chief executive of BP Lord Browne was appointed to chair the review of the top-up fee ...
  12 hours ago

• Literacy Challenges of The Social Technographic Ladder

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 121
  The ladder. Charlene Li and Josh Bernofff have written a great book titled Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies . In their book they describe The Social Technographics ladder. “Each step on the ladder represents a group of consumers moreinvolved in the groundswell than the ...
  13 hours ago

• Should Everyone go to College? (No. 2)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 123
  This is the second of a series of occasional posts that will deal with this question.President Obama, in his adopted role of “school-superintendent-in-chief,” has recently called on every American to receive at least one year of higher education or vocational training. However, there is no agreement among ...
  14 hours ago

• The Quotable Black Scholar: Pedro Noguera on Class and Black Identity Formation

  
  Black On Campus — Authority: 106
  Pedro Noguera *** “In many black communities, it is the ethos, the style, the orientation of poor black kids that influences middle-class black kids in ways that [are not] true for middle-class white kids. Most middle-class white kids don’t know poor white kids.” – NYU sociology of education Professor ...
  17 hours ago

• Obama Offers Scholarship Aid to Moms for Higher Education

  
  Prepare For College — Authority: 154
  Life as a single mother is not easy. Working multiple jobs to make ends meet, while also worrying about the welfare of your children can be a lot to handle. President Barack Obama wants to help these women by providing funding to them to go back to college, so that they can live and provide a better life for their ...
  19 hours ago

• More and more students, less and less money, tighter controls

  
  University Blog — Authority: 475
  A perfect storm is beginning to form around Irish higher education, and conditions are such that the sector  will be in very serious trouble over the coming year. According to an article in the Sunday Tribune , figures to be released by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) this week will show a significant ...
  20 hours ago

• Pennsylvania State University Astrobiology Summer Program (ASP) – Deadline Feb 19, 2010

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 128
  The Pennsylvania State University Astrobiology Summer Program (ASP) will be held at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA on June 6th – August 14th, 2010.Program details: There will be independent research under the guidance of one or more astrobiologists, a field trip to NASA and astrobiology-related ...
  21 hours ago

• Windows of opportunity

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The importance of mass commerce to postwar recovery led to a revolution in window display Retail street theatre was all the rage in the 1920s. "Audiences" would throng the pavement outside Selfridges store in London just to gawp at the display beyond acres of plate glass. As a show, it made any production of Chekhov ...
  21 hours ago

• What did the Romans ever teach us?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Will plans for food-label-style tagging of degrees threaten the arts and humanities? Last week Lord Mandelson called for a new food-labelling-style system in which degrees would be tagged with drop-out rates, earnings potential and employment success, and called on employers to fund courses in return for helping to ...
  21 hours ago

• Any student, any subject, anywhere

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Web technologies are driving a revolution in higher education, where many degrees may soon be studied online Mandy has been on a study trip to the Sistine chapel without going to Italy. Tina, while working as a full-time carer, has been taking a free university course in psychology on another continent. And ...
  21 hours ago

• A batty tale of oral sex

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The interesting sex life of the fruit bat comes under scrutiny in a new study A new study helps to answer the question raised in Thomas Nagels 1974 philosophy essay What Is It Like to Be a Bat? A team of Chinese and British researchers focuses on an aspect of bat-ness that Nagel ignored: fellatio. Nagel, a professor ...
  21 hours ago

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