Ed. Before focusing so much on tuition, Mr. Hrabe might check out the actual cost of Harvard. Given its astonishingly large scholarship programs, the College may well be CHEAPER than your local CC. He also very much underrates the value of elite schools .. not just the Ivies but the public ivies[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Curriculum’
April 22nd, 2011 - 12:12 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Why the “Research Paper” Isn’t Working
from Blog U By Barbara Fister April 12, 2011 9:30 pm EDT On our panel I questioned the fetish of citation correctness, Doug Downs and ZuZu Feder examined the double standard that we impose on students (are we so careful of whether we need a colon or a comma in that part of a citation? […][...]
April 20th, 2011 - 7:43 am § in Schools & Colleges
College Tutition in UK: $10,000
Leaks say Conservative Government is raising numbers to $10,000, The Guardian estimates the real number as $14,000! from the Guardian UK (excerpted) Ministers have suffered a major blow to their tuition-fee reforms after the government’s access watchdog revealed that all universities intend [...]
Why American Education Outclasses the World.
Recently I had the “fun” of being invited to evaluate the world’s elite universities. I had read these ratings before but had not thought much about the process. One thing I REALLY tried to do was to be fair when it came to world class universities outside the US. I was especially [...]
April 19th, 2011 - 6:19 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Who is Richard Sandefer and Why Should I Care?
Sandefer is the founder of the Acton School of Business and a prime mover behind the effort in Texas to radically change the University of Texas. from Real Estate Investment Ideas No doubt the most unusual M.B.A. program in the country is run by the Acton School of Business in Texas. It is built o[...]
April 19th, 2011 - 12:14 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Is Higher Education a “Bubble?”
from The Center for College Affordability and Productivity on April 6th, 2011, by Richard Vedder Higher education is in a bubble situation-its price has risen sharply, fueled by cheap federal loan and grant money (sound familiar?) while the return on the investment has fallen. More and more college [...]
April 18th, 2011 - 8:37 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Regents pressed to adopt list of higher ed ‘reforms’
Perry emails show plan to downgrade Texas universities By PATRICIA KILDAY HART, AUSTIN BUREAU, www.chron.com April 17, 2011, 7:37AM ….In May 2008, Perry summoned all Texas university regents and chancellors to a higher education summit and to hear Austin businessman Jeff Sandefer, a major Perr[...]
April 18th, 2011 - 3:20 am § in Schools & Colleges
Are All Kids Equal?
Do private schools have the right to choose the kids that they want to serve? This issue is very important in countries like India where getting into the “right” private school may be critical to a child’s future. The lessons for debt plagued Americs should be obvious: from The Hin[...]
April 15th, 2011 - 8:59 am § in Schools & Colleges
(Employers) want to hire 22-year-olds who can write coherently, think creatively and analyze quantitative data, and they’re perfectly happy to hire English or biology majors.
The Default Major: Skating Through B-School Ed. I am posting this for two reasons: 1. I am not convinced “business” should be an undergraduate major anyplace. 2. the concept that courses evolve toward the easy seems ot me t be an all too obvious example of Gresham’s law. 3. The imp[...]
April 13th, 2011 - 10:16 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Higher Education Group at Seattle MoveON
Starting after the Civil War, step by step America created a university system, including private and public colleges, that offered unheard of opportunities for an upwardly mobile America. The words are still thrilling .. GI Bill, Land Grant Universities, Pell Grants, National Merit Awards[...]