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Fixing Accreditation, From the Inside
Higher ed associations create panel to study and suggest changes to quality assurance system -- not least to ward off government action.
Translating 'Grad Student' Into English
Several years working on a Ph.D. in the back corner of a chemistry lab or lost in a library’s stacks...
Mixed on Media
E-readers are in, but e-textbooks are not, according to a new student survey.
McJobs vs. University
Jill McDonald, the head of the British division of McDonald's, gave a talk this week in which she said that...
U. of Texas System Regents Back Research -- and Their Chancellor
Francisco G. Cigarroa, chancellor of the University of Texas System, on Thursday defended the importance of research at the state...
Academic Minute: IT Etiquette in the Workplace
In today’s Academic Minute, Matthew Randall of York College of Pennsylvania explains the new set of challenges information technology is...
Pearson Announces Partnership on Lecture Capture
In the latest of a slew of higher-ed publishers to join forces with lecture capture companies, the e-learning giant Pearson...
New Evidence on Science Education Reforms
Carl Wieman, the Nobel laureate at the University of British Columbia, has released new findings to show that the right...