Higher Education
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Here’s how competition makes peer review more unfair
Stefano Balietti, Northeastern University A scientist can spend several months, in many cases even years, strenuously investigating a single research question, with the ultimate ... -
Is financial aid meant to help students or colleges?
A recent article via Forbes.com asks a fairly interesting question regarding financial aid for students attempting to attain a higher education. Does financial aid ... -
Turning the Tide: Can admissions reforms redefine achievement?
Julie Renee Posselt, University of Michigan Individualism makes America unhealthy and unequal, and college admissions offices have the power to do something about it. ... -
The history of student loans goes back to the Middle Ages
Jenny Adams, University of Massachusetts Amherst In 1473, Alexander Hardynge, who had finished his bachelor’s degree at Oxford nearly two years previous, borrowed money ... -
Why it’s so hard for students to have their debts forgiven
Neal H. Hutchens, University of Mississippi and Richard Fossey, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Outstanding student loan debt in the United States reached a ... -
What your choice of degree means for your future earnings
Francis Green, UCL The mass expansion of higher education, the arrival of high fees in English and Welsh universities, the ongoing technology revolution and ... -
The real reason more women don’t code
Karin Verspoor, University of Melbourne I menstruate and I code. I share this perhaps shocking personal information in the interest of full disclosure, and ... -
If we really want an ideas boom, we need more women at the top tiers of science
Emma Johnston, UNSW Australia; Nalini Joshi, University of Sydney, and Tanya Monro, University of South Australia On Wednesday March 30, Emma Johnston, Nalini Joshi ... -
How to keep more women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
Merryn McKinnon, Australian National University There have been myriad promises made by the major political parties over the years focused on funding programs aimed ... -
An Open Letter to College Marketing Directors
Note: The following guest post comes to us courtesy of Steve Fireng, CEO of PlattForm. He has more than 25 years of experience in ...
