In its annual assessment of business schools, the Financial Times found that students who started attending school in 2009 and 2009 and graduated in 2010 – when the recession was still ravaging the economy – have experienced a doubling of salary in the past five years.
Business schools around the globe are attempting to improve their campuses – and compete for the best students – with major renovations and new construction.
Despite the risk to schools – the number of applications for MBA programs is slightly down in recent years –there is a need to keep pace with competitors in what they offer students.
The United States Congress should establish an accreditation agency to assess the value of free college-level courses offered over the Internet, according to Mark Rubio, a U.S. senator and potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate.
Rubio’s idea is part of an overhaul he is proposing for how students earn four-year degrees, a plan that also calls for alternatives to four-year colleges for some disciplines and income-based repayments for college loans.
A year after transferring from her post as head of UCLA Extension to a position with the American Council of Education, Cathy Sandeen recently wrote an opinion piece outlining the major issues confronting colleges nationwide.
Her opinion article for the Huffington Post provides insight into what experts within the education system see as the biggest challenges for the country’s colleges and universities. Sandeen is the American Council of Education’s vice president for education attainment and innovation.
The cutting of education funds by individual states is a contributing factor to the skyrocketing costs of higher education, according to an official from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
JPMorgan announced this week it will give $1 million to schools to improve higher education courses for United States military veterans.
In a press release, Maureen Casey, the director of military and veterans affairs for JP Morgan, said the money is meant to help veterans make the transition from serving their country in a military capacity to the working world.
Part of the recent White House summit on making higher education more fundable was driven by the theory of “undermatching” – the idea that high-achieving low-income students should strive to gain entry into elite academic institutions rather than local community or public schools.
A new film from documentary filmmaker Andrew Rossi investigates whether higher education is really worth the effort and cost of attaining a degree.
The film, “The Ivory Tower,” is directed by Andrew Rossi, who is best-known for his documentary, “Page One: Inside the New York Times,” about the disruption of the newspaper business by the Internet.
In answer to President Obama’s call for better access to higher education for those with less money, experts gathered this month at a summit called the Education Datapalooza, hosted by the White House and the Department of Education.
In a blog post on the Department of Education website, Education Secretary Arne Duncan wrote that meeting was part of the president’s plan to make education affordable for every American.
A Stanford University professor has released a new book that investigates some of the possibilities that technology brings to the future of education.
Larry Cuban, a former high school social studies teacher and professor emeritus of education at Stanford, has released a book called, “Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice: Change Without Reform in American Education.”
