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PROFESSOR GREEN: WHITE WORKING-CLASS BOYS BECOMING MORE DISENGAGED
While almost 40 percent of young people overall now progress to higher education, the figure for white boys from the most disadvantaged backgrounds is just 10 percent ... READ MORE›
MORE AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES ARE BUILDING $1 BILLION ENDOWMENTS
In 2015, Stephen Blyth, then chief executive of Harvard University's endowment, was making 15 million, according to tax filings... READ MORE›
TAX BILL DROPS CONTROVERSIAL PROVISIONS ON COLLEGE LOANS, TUITION WAIVERS
If true, this is welcome for the millions of students who use these benefits every year to help them finance a college education, Hartle said... READ MORE›
TEMPLE PROFESSOR STUDYING RISING TUITION FEES DONATES $100,000 PRIZE TO STUDENT AID FUND
A Temple University professor who won a 100,000 prize for research into the rising cost of college will donate the money to a fund she established to... READ MORE›
SENATE TWIST ON NEW ENDOWMENT TAX COULD SPARE SOME U.S. SCHOOLS
A few dozen private college endowments could dodge a bullet with the sweeping tax bill approved by the Senate early Saturday morning after a last-minute amendment... READ MORE›
OVERSEAS STUDENTS TURNING AWAY FROM US UNIVERSITIES
The study showed that 290,836 international students entered the US in the fall of last year, compared with 300,743 at the same time 2015... READ MORE›
A NOTE OF THANKS TO MR HEATON-HARRIS
Mr Heaton-Harris ought not to worry about me and my colleagues poisoning minds against Brexit... READ MORE›
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NUMBER OF UNIVERSITY DROPOUTS DUE TO MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS TREBLES
The number of students to drop out of university with mental health problems has more than trebled in recent years, official figures show... READ MORE›
THE 10 BEST CITIES IN THE WORLD TO BE A STUDENT
The 10 best cities in the world to be a student - in pictures... READ MORE›
TOP 100 WORLD UNIVERSITIES 2016/17 QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS
A ETH ZURICH SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 9 A A A 9... READ MORE›
ENGLAND HAS HIGHEST UNIVERSITY TUITION FEES IN INDUSTRIALISED WORLD, SURVEY FINDS
Throughout the OECD, graduates earn on average double over their lifetime than those whose highest education was secondary school, it finds... READ MORE›
IRELAND TO LIST CHINESE AS NATIONAL EXAM SUBJECT IN 2022
The education minister made the announcement at a joint conference of Confucius Institutes of Ireland and Britain... READ MORE›
LABOUR WARNED OVER TUITION FEES CUT
Shadow universities minister Liam Byrne said the student finance system is going bust under the current system... READ MORE›
CHINESE UNIVERSITIES CLIMB WORLD RANKINGS AS UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO SLIPS TO LOWEST POSITION EVER
The University of Tokyo, Japan's top institution, fell seven places to No... READ MORE›
DUTERTE APPROVES FREE STATE COLLEGE FEES OPPOSED BY BUDGET CHIEF
The president said the long-term benefits of education outweighed the very heavy budgetary implications, Deputy Executive Secretary Menardo Guevarra said at a televised briefing in Manila... READ MORE›
CLASHES IN CAPE TOWN AS STUDENTS DEMAND FREE TUITION
Students in the South African city of Cape Town have clashed with police during protest demanding free education across the country... READ MORE›
'WASTING TIME ON THE INTERNET' COURSE OFFERED AT ELITE US UNIVERSITY
'Wasting Time on the Internet' course to be taught at University of Pennsylvania... READ MORE›
KENNY'S CONSTITUENCY FLOODED WITH HOUSING GRANTS
A Finance spokesman said any representation for housing grants are made by Minister Noonan's constituency office... READ MORE›
THESE ARE THE 10 BEST UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD (AND 4 ARE IN BRITAIN)
US and UK lead the way for having the best universities in the world, according to QS World University Rankings... READ MORE›
KERRY IS IRELAND'S FAVOURITE HOLIDAY DESTINATION, BUT WHICH COUNTIES FAILED TO ATTRACT A SINGLE VOTE?
Armagh, Laois, Fermanagh, Limerick and Westmeath were ranked as favourite holiday counties by just 0.17pc of respondents... READ MORE›
SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENTS CLASH WITH POLICE IN CAPE TOWN OVER TUITION
Mr. Nzimande has said this week that increases would be capped at 6 percent for 2016, but the South African Students Congress is opposing any increase... READ MORE›
UK S OSBORNE SAYS DANGER OF VERY BAD OUTCOME ON GREECE INCREASING BLOOMBERG
Indeed, they note, one of the most vocal arguments against such controls came from the education minister himself... READ MORE›
TRUMP TRAVEL CURBS POSE REVENUE CHALLENGES FOR U.S. COLLEGES
Of the 1,043,839 international students in the United States during the 2015-16 school year, 17,354, or 1.7 percent, came from the countries affected by the order, IIE data shows... READ MORE›
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DEAN TO QUIT OVER GUN LAW
But for Frederick Steiner, dean of the Texas School of Architecture, guns should not be allowed on university grounds... READ MORE›
FOREIGN STUDENTS OFFER LIFELINE TO CASH-STRAPPED U.S. STATE SCHOOLS
As the chart above shows, in 2008, student tuition made up 35.8 percent of public colleges' revenue, which also includes state appropriations... READ MORE›
STILL THINK AMERICA IS THE 'LAND OF OPPORTUNITY'? LOOK AT THIS CHART.
Right after college, poor kids earn about two-thirds as much as rich kids, on average... READ MORE›
UK STUDENT VISA POLICY COULD SHUT OUT FUTURE LEADERS, SAYS THINKTANK
Manchester University educated 10 world leaders as either undergraduates or postgraduates, Oxford nine, Sandhurst and London's colleges seven apiece, Cambridge four, and Bristol and LSE three each... READ MORE›
SOUTH AFRICA'S STUDENT PROTESTS ARE PART OF A MUCH BIGGER STRUGGLE
Universities are part of a broken system that has failed to address South Africa's enduring inequities, they say... READ MORE›
UNIVERSITY PROTESTS AROUND THE WORLD: SHARE YOUR PHOTOS
Are you staging a protest or occupation to fight against the commercialisation of higher education? Share your photos via GuardianWitness... READ MORE›
CHINESE PRESIDENT SIGNALS TIGHTENING OF CONTROL OVER UNIVERSITIES
Leadership and party-building in the higher-learning institutions is a fundamental guarantee for running socialist universities with Chinese features well, Xi was quoted as saying... READ MORE›
UK UNIVERSITIES TAKE INCREASING BATTLE FOR STUDENTS INTO VIRTUAL WORLD
By 2000-01, there were 1.3 million students in full-time higher education, with the vast majority 1.2 million studying at universities... READ MORE›
COLLEGE FRESHMEN NEED TO BEWARE OF BAIT-AND-SWITCH AID OFFERS
Higher education is subsidized by so many different sources, and those are constantly changing, Draeger said... READ MORE›
SWITZERLAND AND SINGAPORE HAVE THE WORLD'S BEST UNIVERSITIES OUTSIDE THE US AND UK, SAY QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS
Switzerland and singapore have the world's best universities outside the us and uk say qs world university rankings... READ MORE›
BRITAIN TESTS 'NAME BLIND' UNIVERSITY APPLICATIONS TO TACKLE DISCRIMINATION
Last year, then-Prime Minister David Cameron announced that name blind university applications would soon become the new normal... READ MORE›
10 STATES WITH THE CHEAPEST PUBLIC COLLEGE TUITION
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced recently a proposal to make college tuition-free at all state public two- and four-year colleges... READ MORE›
EXCLUSIVE: TPG CLOSE TO $3.5 BILLION DEAL TO BUY ELLUCIAN - SOURCES
Hellman Friedman and JMI Equity acquired the company in 2009, then known as Datatel, for 570 million... READ MORE›
SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE FIRE TEARGAS AS UNIVERSITY FEES PROTESTS SPREAD
Police said they were investigating arson at the University of Fort Hare in neighbouring Eastern Cape province after a building housing university security guards was torched... READ MORE›