News tagged with higher education
Cognitive problems common among non-demented elderly
Both subjective and objective cognitive impairment are highly common among non-demented elderly Swedes, with an overall prevalence of 39 percent and 25 percent respectively, according to a nationwide twin study by researchers ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Incoming college students more liberal on hot-button political, social issues, survey finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- First-year college students' political and social views shifted in a more liberal direction in 2011, according to the CIRP Freshman Survey, UCLA's annual survey of the nation's entering students at four-year ...
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Jan 26, 2012 |
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States reduce funding for research universities
States reduced per-student funding for major public research universities by a fifth during the past decade, while foreign competitors invested heavily to challenge the United States' once dominant global position in science, ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Caltech beats out Harvard for top ranking
(PhysOrg.com) -- According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, has beaten out Harvard to take the top spot for the first time since they s ...
Oct 07, 2011 |
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War of words: A look at media and for-profit colleges
Views on the role of for-profit colleges have been varied, opposing and very public. This debate had played out primarily in the media, and those sentiments were researched and analyzed in SAGE Open's "All-Out War: A Case ...
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Jul 26, 2011 |
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International service and higher education: New research looks at how programs impact both student and community
How do students learn the skills necessary to work with those who are different from them? How do they come to understand the global ramifications of local actions? How does higher education effectively train this generation ...
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Jun 23, 2011 |
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College students' use of Kindle DX points to e-reader's role in academia
A study of how University of Washington graduate students integrated an Amazon Kindle DX into their course reading provides the first long-term investigation of e-readers in higher education. While some of ...
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May 02, 2011 |
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Research universities play a major role in national security
The United States' preoccupation with national security, including counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and cyber security, is also a concern of higher education, according to Graham Spanier, president of Penn State University.
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Economy, education cuts taking heavy toll on state's college students, new study shows
The ongoing economic crisis and continuing state budget cuts to higher education have had a devastating impact on students at California's public colleges and universities, resulting in "alarmingly high levels of stress," ...
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Feb 16, 2011 |
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Organic food in pregnancy -- new study
Who eats organic food when they are pregnant? Is it just certain groups? What kind of organic foods are most popular? A recent study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health provides some answers. The study includes ...
Jan 27, 2011 |
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Exclusions and power structures in the wake of an open higher education system
In recent decades, Swedish universities and university colleges have become the target of a range of reforms under the banner of openness and flexibility. But a thesis from the University of Gothenburg shows that the good ...
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Dec 14, 2010 |
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Financial burden greater for college students with divorced or remarried parents
College students whose parents have remained married to each other are faring better financially than their peers with divorced or remarried parents, according to new research from Rice University and the University of Wisconsin.
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Dec 09, 2010 |
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Liberal college students more likely than conservatives to vote, data shows
University and college students who identify themselves as politically liberal voted at higher rates in the 2008 presidential election than conservatives, according to new data released by the Higher Education Research Institute (HE ...
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Nov 01, 2010 |
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Higher education funding may need decade or longer to recover, scholar says
With the economy mired in a deep funk, and with state budgets around the country blood red, a University of Illinois expert in higher education policy says the timeline for restoring funding for higher education to pre-recessionary ...
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Aug 10, 2010 |
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Better alignment needed between high schools, community colleges
High schools need to work with community colleges to align their curricula better and to reduce the number of students who need to enroll in remedial courses, according to a University of Illinois expert who ...
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Jul 15, 2010 |
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Higher education
N.B. Tertiary education as a concept in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland includes both further education as well as higher education. For information about further education look under that term. For other countries, tertiary education is synonymous with higher education.
Higher education refers to a level of education that is provided by universities, vocational universities, community colleges, liberal arts colleges, institutes of technology and other collegiate level institutions, such as vocational schools, trade schools and career colleges, that award academic degrees or professional certifications.
Since 1950, Article 2 of the first Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights obliges all signatory parties to guarantee the right to education. At the world level, the United Nations' International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966, guarantees this right under its Article 13, which states that "higher education shall be made equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education".
For more information about Higher education, read the full article at
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