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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›
THE DEGREES THAT REALLY PAY OFF FOR GRADUATES IN WASHINGTON STATE
The data show the statewide median earnings for graduates every year after they earned their diplomas, for seven years... 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›
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›
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IBM LAYS OUT PLANS TO HIRE 25,000 IN U.S. AHEAD OF TRUMP MEETING
We will need new kinds of collaboration - involving federal and state governments, public school systems, community colleges and private business, across multiple industries, she said... READ MORE›
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›
BETSY DEVOS HANDS VICTORY TO LOAN FIRM TIED TO ADVISER WHO JUST QUIT
Furthermore, he said, United Student Aid Funds is now owned by Great Lakes Higher Education Corp... READ MORE›
AMERICANS JUST BROKE THE PSYCHOLOGISTS' STRESS RECORD
In the study, respondents with incomes below 50,000 reported higher stress levels than those with higher incomes... READ MORE›
NEW RULES REQUIRE SOME NOVA SCOTIA PRIVATE COLLEGES TO WARN STUDENTS OF DIM JOB PROSPECTS
A number of programs at Nova Scotia colleges have had conditions imposed on them by the province, according to documents obtained under freedom of information laws... 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›
CONGRATS, COLLEGE GRADS. NOW GOOD LUCK PAYING OFF ALL THAT DEBT
A college degree has evolved from a luxury for wealthier Americans some four decades ago to a necessary prerequisite for a career in today's knowledge-heavy economy... 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›
MASS KILLER ANDERS BREIVIK ACCEPTED BY UNIVERSITY
Rector Ole Petter Ottersen said that all inmates in Norwegian prisons are entitled to higher education in Norway if they meet the admission requirements... 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›
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›
POLICE ARREST SUSPECT IN DEATHS OF WHITEFISH LAKE FIRST NATION TEENS
Dylan laboucan, 17, and cory grey, 19, were found shot to death on northern alberta reserve in july... READ MORE›
AND THE TOP-TEN UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD ARE...
Cambridge and Oxford have again been placed number four and five respectively for the second-year running as Harvard University in Massachusetts held on to the top-spot... 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›
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS 'ESSENTIAL'
Education Minister Simon Birmingham will tell an education conference in Hobart on Thursday the government will introduce new English language standards for students in 2018... 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›
COLLEGE IS THE NEW CABLE BUNDLE. DO STUDENTS DESERVE A 'NETFLIX'?
A group wants to set the stage for the Uber and Airbnbs of higher education... 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›