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Unease Grows About Future of Financing for Pell Grants
With the lame-duck Congress winding down and a $5.7 billion gap in financing looming for next year’s Pell grants — and a further $8 billion gap for the following year — there is growing uncertainty about the future of the grants, the nation’s most significant financial-aid program for college students. After months of wrangling, Congress grappled Friday with stopgap financing to keep the government in business after the budget expires this weekend. But the temporary measures, probably extending to mid-February, will most likely continue the current budget without providing extra Pell money
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City Seeks Partner to Open Graduate School of Engineering
Worried that New York City is not spawning enough technology-based start-up companies with the potential to become big employers like Google, city officials are inviting universities around the world to create an engineering campus on city-owned land. Enlarge This Image Chris Hondros/Getty Images Robert K.
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New No. 2 at City Schools Believes in More Testing
He stood out at Community High School in Ann Arbor, Mich., an experimental school light on structure that was mockingly called “Commie High,” and at Brown , the Ivy League university known for giving students free rein, and where one of his inspirations was an education dean who espoused flexibility in teaching. Related New Guidelines Make Teacher Tenure Less Automatic in New York City (December 14, 2010) Times Topics: Shael Polakow-Suransky | Cathleen P
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Briefly: Education: Dearth of Blacks at Oxford and Cambridge
Oxford and Cambridge lack diversity, politician says Related Getting Ahead in India Means Getting Out of Town (December 13, 2010) Incoming Chief of Insead Sees the Strengths of Europe (December 13, 2010) David Lammy, a former higher education minister and Labour member of Parliament, has used figures obtained under Britain’s Freedom of Information Law to reveal a dearth of black and other minority students at either of the country’s two oldest universities.
Colleges That Recruit Veterans Garner Profits and Scrutiny
WASHINGTON — When Congress moved in 2008 to sweeten tuition payments for veterans, it was celebrated as a way to ensure that military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan could go to college at no cost and to replicate the historic benefits society gained from the G.I. Bill after World War II. Multimedia Document Recruiting Veterans and Their Tuition Dollars Related U.S
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A Facebook ‘Welcome’ That May Not Be
High school seniors about to be admitted to college, take note: that authentic-looking Facebook page inviting you to join the university’s “welcome group” for the class of 2015 may be unauthorized. Enlarge This Image A company's Facebook pages for freshmen use school logos. A blog examining all facets of college and university admissions.
Briefly: Education: Doctorate Degrees in U.S. Increase to Record Level
Research doctorate degrees were awarded to 49,562 students by American academic institutions in the 2008-9 academic year, the highest number ever reported, according to the National Science Foundation ’s Survey of Earned Doctorates. Related Plan to Lift University Tuition Galvanizes British Students (December 6, 2010) Australian Classrooms Face Many Empty Seats (December 6, 2010) The figure represents a 1.6 percent increase over the 2007-8 year. The growth was due largely to increases in the number of degrees awarded in the fields of science and engineering.
Malaysian Students Want Voices Heard
KUALA LUMPUR — In many countries, university campuses, brimming with youthful enthusiasm and impatience for change, have long served as hotbeds of political activism and training grounds for future leaders. In Malaysia, however, it is illegal for students to join political parties or take part in political campaigns or protests. Students who do so risk expulsion from their university and other penalties, including fines
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Serious Mental Health Needs Seen Growing at Colleges