How Finland became an education leader
Harvard professor Tony Wagner explains how the nation achieved extraordinary successes by deemphasizing testing, Salon reports.
Month: July 2011
College students can now rent textbooks electronically from Amazon
A month or so before back-to-school season begins in earnest, Amazon has jumped into the lucrative college textbook market with Kindle Textbook Rental, Mashable reports.
India, US to host higher education summit in Washington
India and United States plan to host a Higher Education Summit in Washington on October 13 to highlight and emphasize the many avenues through which the higher education…
BYU students were dropping Molotov cocktails into mine shaft
Three college students were hospitalized in serious condition Monday after they were burned while dropping homemade gasoline bombs into one of Utah's thousands of abandoned mine shafts, reports…
Higher ed tackles computer compatibility problems
University faculty and students who make a standard upgrade from a 32-bit to 64-bit version of Windows may find themselves unable to connect to their school networks off-campus,…
Social media eases transition for college students
Cassidy Whitaker Thompson had a dilemma. The incoming freshman at Purdue University wanted to know whether she needed to register for a first-semester physics course, reports the Courier-Journal.
Old Dominion U. professor is trying to save internet history
What if you woke up tomorrow and all of your painstakingly edited YouTube videos were gone, your 4,000-entry Twitter feed erased and your lovingly tended Facebook page deleted?…
LinkedIn upgrades profiles for recent college graduates
In an official blog post today, LinkedIn announced upgraded profile pages to help college graduates and current students stand out from the crowd of job hunters, reports Yahoo!…
eBook revolution upends a publishing course
For decades, even after it was renamed and relocated from its original home at Radcliffe, the Columbia Publishing Course seemed unchanging, a genteel summer tradition in the book…
Law school economics: Ka-ching!
With apologies to show business, there’s no business like the business of law school, says the New York Times.