How Much Do You Pay for College?
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 15:01
By Richard Kahlenberg. A once-taboo topic emerges from the shadows. Over the past decade and a half, I've given talks on dozens of college campuses about the need to increase socioeconomic diversity, but never before had I witnessed what I observed during a recent speech at Middlebury College.Before introducing me, students from the sponsoring organization, Money at Midd, began the forum by publicly announcing their names and how much they and their families paid each year in tuition and fees. The first student, Samuel Koplinka-Loehr, said that his family paid about $18,000, and that he added $3,000 from his job. He passed the microphone to the next student, who said his family paid the full $56,000 comprehensive fee. A young woman said that her family could not afford to pay anything, but that she worked to pay $1,200 toward college costs. Read more...
Self-Sabotage in the Academic Career
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 14:58
By Robert J. Sternberg. 15 ways in which faculty members harm their own futures, often without knowing it. Pogo recognized long ago that we often are our own worst enemies.
Sure, he was a cartoon character, but he had a point—especially in
higher education, where self-sabotage seems to be a standard
characteristic of academic careers. In my 30 years as a professor, five
years as a dean, and three years as a provost, I have observed many
academics harm their own careers, often without realizing it. Here are
15 ways in which you can be most self-destructive.1. You don't seek out multiple mentors. Too many faculty members sit back and wait for guidance and advice from their department heads or promotion committees. Successful academics, early in their careers, look for several mentors, including from departments other than their own. No one person or committee can be relied on to give you definitive career advice. In the end, you need to seek out multiple sources of advice, sort the good from the bad, and take responsibility for your own career development. Read more...
Students Might Not Be 'Academically Adrift' After All, Study Finds
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 14:55
By Dan Berrett. Students show substantial gains in learning during college, as
measured by a standardized test of critical thinking, according to two
studies conducted by the creator of the test. While perhaps not a direct rebuke to Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, the blockbuster 2011 book that documented what its authors argued was meager learning on campuses, the studies, by the Council for Aid to Education, do offer a sunnier counternarrative."It's probably a more nuanced story," said Roger Benjamin, the council's president, in an interview on Friday. The results described in reports on the studies, "Does College Matter? Measuring Critical-Thinking Outcomes Using the CLA" and "Three Principle Questions About Critical-Thinking Tests," were presented in an off-the-record session here at the American Enterprise Institute. Read more...
Uni-Tests in Griechenland: Ptychiomania heißt Abschlusswahn
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 12:22
Korruption in Russland: Warum studieren, ich kann doch schmieren
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 12:18
Studienplatzvergabe: Ein ganz klein bisschen weniger Chaos
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 12:16
Besondere Studentenzimmer: Ab ins Containerdorf
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 12:12
See also Mondialisation des containers devenant des résidences étudiantes.
Reading, Writing, Algorithms: Should IT Classes Be Required?
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 12:07
It's a Wednesday afternoon in the computer lab of Kreuzgymnasium secondary school in the eastern German city of Dresden. A dozen eighth-graders are sitting in front of computer monitors, typing, whispering and programming. The IT class at this school serves as an example for the entire country. These students have been learning how to work with computers since fifth grade. To them, it's just another subject alongside math and biology, supplemented by the usual school standards: Latin, choir, music and drama. Read more...
Universities lure students with upscale dorms
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 11:54
By Masaaki Kameda. Universities in Japan are doing everything they can to attract students amid the aging society and decline in young people. One approach to lure applicants is to provide dormitories with state-of-the-art facilities. Takushoku University opened a dormitory in April last year at its Hachioji campus in western Tokyo. The orange and brown College House Fuso complex includes four four-story buildings and a three-floor one. They only admit residents who have cleared its strict security system.There are 405 individual rooms in the dorm, each just over 17.5 sq. meters and featuring a bath, toilet, kitchen, bed, desk and a chair. The rent is ¥58,000 a month, which also includes two meals a day. The dorm also boasts a cafeteria, a convenience store and a bicycle shop for students. What makes Takushoku’s Hachioji dorm unique is its upmarket facilities — a large bathing area featuring a sauna and whirlpool spa, and a training gym — for use by dorm residents only. Read more...
Police investigate 'cheating' service for uni students
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 11:51
ONE News spoke to the man who alerted the New Zealand qualification Authority to the potential problem.
He alleges he was contracted to write assignments for students at various universities who could not meet language standards. Read more...
Uni funding cuts spark national outrage
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 11:48
Academics and students have vowed to campaign against university funding cuts of more than $2 billion, holding rallies around the country. The tertiary education union has vowed to launch a major campaign against university funding cuts in the lead-up to the federal election, as hundreds of students rallied in a national protest.National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) general secretary Graham McCulloch said the academics' union would hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss action against $2.3 billion in cuts expected in Tuesday's budget. Read more...
Columbia University still has 'whites only' scholarship
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 11:45
Columbia University still offers a “whites only” tuition fellowship, which is restricted to “a person of the Caucasian race” and may be in violation of the US Constitution, a Manhattan Supreme Court wrote in papers filed Monday.Facing massive condemnation upon the discovery of this discriminatory restriction, Columbia University has called for an end to the scholarship program that came out of a fund now worth about $800,000.
The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship, which was established in 1920, only considers Americans who are from Iowa, not studying law, “of the Caucasian race”, and returning to Iowa for at least two years upon graduation. A court order is required in order to change the conditions of the fellowship. Read more...
Mother Tongue: South African University To Make Zulu Language Compulsory For All Students
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 11:40
State fails to sponsor university students
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 11:37
SENIOR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER
Director of Higher Education Martha Muguti disclosed that the Ministry of Finance had failed to meet its budgetary obligations to finance tertiary institutions since 2012, leaving them in financial dire straits.
Muguti made the disclosure when she appeared before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Science and Technology chaired by Insiza MP Siyabonga Ncube.
“Since January 2013, no single cent has been released for State universities and we find it difficult to deal with issues of accommodation, meals and the standard of life students now live is appalling,” she said. Read more...
Universities offering cash to students who find a job
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 11:34
Some schools say they will offer career training programs, including communication skills, to the students who failed to land a job.
Around 44 percent of 178,000 senior students at local universities and colleges had secured a job as of last week, 2 percentage points down from last year, the Shanghai Education Commission said yesterday. Read more...
'Fly in, fly out' scholars fail to take off in China
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 11:32
A new report shows that 'fly in, fly out' academics are a source of
frustration for Chinese students taking UK degrees in their own country,
writes Jack Grove for Times Higher Education. Full report on the Times Higher Education site.Around 38,000 students in China were studying for qualifications taught by a total of 70 British higher education institutions last year, either through a branch campus, partnerships with Chinese universities or via distance learning. Read more...
MOOCs – Past, present and future
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 11:25
By Hamish Macleod and Geoff Gould.The University of Edinburgh has a reputation for innovation and so being
part of one of the first massive online open courses, or MOOCs, was a
logical step for us. One of the most striking things about the
university’s pilot MOOC was how it demonstrated the sheer appetite for
online learning. Not really knowing what to expect, we were astonished with the level of
enrolments, which exceeded 300,000. We had almost 90% of applicants
coming from outside of the UK, so it is truly a worldwide phenomenon. Read more...
Students must think critically about their worldviews
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 11:24
By Abu Kamara. There is a ‘critical thinking’ deficit in higher education. The chief
aim of the higher education curriculum seems to be more about helping
students absorb facts and less about helping them develop as critical
thinkers. Information is passed on to students without setting aside
time for examining the contextual nature and cultural base of knowledge. Without the benefit of developing the habit of examining the contextual
nature and cultural base of knowledge, students absorb information while
still remaining blind to the impact of their worldviews on the way they
conceive the world. Read more...
Economic recovery stifled by serious brain drain
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 11:10
By Makki Marseilles. Over the past two centuries large numbers of unskilled and semi-skilled
Greeks have left the Aegean shores in search of a better future. Today’s
emigrants are highly skilled professionals, with postgraduate
qualifications, who are unable to function in the country’s depressing
economic environment. But their leaving is also delaying – even
preventing – Greece’s recovery. When Greece joined the European Union (EU) just over 30 years ago, the
flow of immigration was gradually staunched and many people returned to
take advantage of the increased economic opportunities that were opening
at the time. Read more...
Turkish PhD students drawn to US and Germany
pcassuto | 20 mai, 2013 11:09
By Basak Bilecen. Nowadays university campuses are full of international students pursuing
different programmes with different interests. Students from Turkey are
no exception and are among the very highly mobile student populations. An article by The New York Times noted last month that although
Britain sent more than 9,000 students to the United States last year – a
record – and Germany sent about 9,300, both lagged behind Turkey which
has been sending more than 10,000 students a year to the US since 2000. Read more...


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