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Real estate developers are seeking opportunities to buy student housing from strapped universities and convert them into apartments for white-collar workers.
A series of studies across countries and disciplines in higher education confirm that student evaluations of teaching (SET) are significantly correlated with instructor gender, with students regula…
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I’m not surprised because we see the behavioral patterns that start in lower education come into college: A student who has not been to class in high school on a regular basis is unlikely to attend her college classes with greater fervor.
But the sad, almost inevitable result is that the absent student will flunk out of college — attendance is one of the primary markers for success in the first year of college and for ultimate completion of the college degree.
Beyond not having the academic discipline of attending class, students who skip a lot of high school also lack essential knowledge and skills required for collegiate success. That sets them up for failure, a need to repeat courses or engage in remediation, and, invariably, lengthens their time to degree, which translates into more tuition costs and lost wages.
Many students wind up dropping out because the pressure to catch up is overwhelming.
The university sector has a relatively relaxed stance on staff-student relationships and should consider adopting standards like those for health professionals.
The federal government requires them to tally the price of off-campus housing, health care, transportation, and other expenses. But an analysis suggests that those estimates are often wide of the mark.
This high school is getting its student to turn a wasteland into the heart of the school.
A new report says two-thirds of community-college students don’t have enough to eat, and 14 percent are homeless.
The incident occurred just outside the campus in Ann Arbor, police said.
South Sudanese living in the ACT are facing racism when job seeking and can't get employment in roles for which they have professional qualifications.
Other countries offer plans that give students more time to repay loans or that make provisions for fluctuating earnings, so fewer borrowers default.
Graduating seniors believe the technology skills they’ve acquired in college will help them start their careers.
Thousands of debt-ridden law school graduates highlight a once unthinkable question: Should their law schools close?
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I want to draw on my experience at Shore School in the 1990s to shed some light, if only a little, on the baffling and disturbing behaviour displayed by some of the boys there this week, writes David Taylor.
National standards for English language providers were strengthened in 2018 and the regulator is set to ensure compliance.
For many students at LaGuardia Community College in New York, making it from the first day of school to graduation is a struggle. And they’re not alone. Part of this national problem? We don't have a good idea of who's going to college, and the ways their complex lives and extra costs can trip them up. Hari Sreenivasan reports as part of our series Rethinking College.
New technologies are revolutionizing education—but they’re also keeping prices high.
Forty percent of all undergraduates go to community colleges, and many can’t afford to go full-time.
Cody Abbey, 24, is an avowed globalist who hails from a country that has veered sharply away from the concept.
If students don't succeed, colleges and universities don't succeed. Our full attention must be concentrated on the mission-critical goal of helping students define—and meet—their educational goals.
The first generation of students with an autism diagnosis is fanning out to schools across the country. They face a complex array of academic and social challenges.
NCES data shows that institutions have been scrambling to accommodate massive numbers of nontraditional students.
A ruling by the National Labor Relations Board involving students at Columbia opens the door for teaching assistants at private universities to organize.
'What do you want to be when you grow up?' is the wrong question, says Riley Bennett.
Universities are discovering that keeping low-income students in school takes more than financial aid.
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