News tagged with higher education
Virtual education... for free
They don't offer degrees but then they don't charge tuition either.
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Faculty retention proves a major challenge for universities
Attracting and retaining the world's brightest students is on the mind of every university official. But a new, unprecedented study in the journal Science suggests leaders in higher education face an understated, even more p ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Caltech beats out Harvard for top ranking
(PhysOrg.com) -- According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, has beaten out Harvard to take the top spot for the first time since they s ...
Oct 07, 2011 |
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Study: Higher education playing bigger role in gender wage gap
While higher education has helped women narrow their long-running wage gap with men, there is one college-related factor that has becoming increasingly important in perpetuating that gap, according to new research.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 09, 2009 |
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Study shows age doesn't necessarily affect decision-making
Many people believe that getting older means losing a mental edge, leading to poor decision-making. But a new study from North Carolina State University shows that when it comes to making intuitive decisions - using your ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Family and peer relationships essential to Mexican-American college students' success
Hispanics are enrolling in the higher education system at a greater rate than ever, yet they are less likely than their non-Hispanic peers to enter college or earn degrees, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. A new study ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 27, 2012 |
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Textbook rentals a growing trend in higher education
ntil recently, when it came to buying textbooks, there really were only two primary options for the nation’s college students: new or used, and used only sometimes. However, over the past few years, there has been a ...
May 04, 2012 |
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States reduce funding for research universities
States reduced per-student funding for major public research universities by a fifth during the past decade, while foreign competitors invested heavily to challenge the United States' once dominant global position in science, ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Research challenges idea raising aspirations is key to education success
New research carried out by Newcastle University challenges the idea that raising aspirations is the key to improving the education of children from low-income families. Liz Todd, Professor of Educational Inclusion at Ne ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 30, 2012 |
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College students' use of Kindle DX points to e-reader's role in academia
A study of how University of Washington graduate students integrated an Amazon Kindle DX into their course reading provides the first long-term investigation of e-readers in higher education. While some of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 02, 2011 |
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War of words: A look at media and for-profit colleges
Views on the role of for-profit colleges have been varied, opposing and very public. This debate had played out primarily in the media, and those sentiments were researched and analyzed in SAGE Open's "All-Out War: A Case ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 26, 2011 |
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Incoming college students more liberal on hot-button political, social issues, survey finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- First-year college students' political and social views shifted in a more liberal direction in 2011, according to the CIRP Freshman Survey, UCLA's annual survey of the nation's entering students at four-year ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Middle class benefits the most from post-1992 university expansion
Initiatives by successive governments to provide better access to higher education for young people from less-privileged backgrounds have failed according to Understanding Society, the world's largest longitudinal study. ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 28, 2012 |
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EU sets out new science plan
(AP) -- European authorities and industry must increase funding for scientific research and improve cooperation to try to close the technology gap with the United States, the European Commission said Tuesday.
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Many lower-skilled men find employment precarious
(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. unemployment rate of about 8 percent masks a far greater problem: the precarious situation of working-age men with modest education and few job skills, new analysis from the La Follette School of ...
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Apr 04, 2012 |
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Higher education
N.B. Tertiary education as a concept in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland includes both further education as well as higher education. For information about further education look under that term. For other countries, tertiary education is synonymous with higher education.
Higher education refers to a level of education that is provided by universities, vocational universities, community colleges, liberal arts colleges, institutes of technology and other collegiate level institutions, such as vocational schools, trade schools and career colleges, that award academic degrees or professional certifications.
Since 1950, Article 2 of the first Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights obliges all signatory parties to guarantee the right to education. At the world level, the United Nations' International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966, guarantees this right under its Article 13, which states that "higher education shall be made equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education".
For more information about Higher education, read the full article at
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