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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: January 18, 2013 Justin Cole, 202-418-8191 Email: justin.cole@fcc.gov FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Issues Gigabit City Challenge To Providers, Local, And State Governments To Bring At Least One Ultra- Fast Gigabit Internet Community To Every State In U.S. By 2015 Washington, D.C. – Today at the U.S. Conference of Mayors […]
Educators and administrators are collecting an enormous amount of data about the progress of their students and schools. Now that this information has been collected, how can it be used to improve education? eSchool News Full Article
The United Nations is not taking over the Internet. At least – not yet. But that’s the fear many have as talks take place in Dubia this week as the UN’s Telecommunication Union and delegates from around the world meet to decide whether it should have oversight or regulate the Internet. That has some big […]
Online degree programs’ reputations have taken a beating, thanks to unscrupulous diploma mills and a lack of respect from HR pros. That perception may finally be changing, but it still pays to be careful. Time Magazine U.S. Full Article
Two new studies offer emphatic answers to much-discussed questions about higher education: Yes, a college degree is worth it, but yes, it’s the middle-class that’s getting particularly squeezed with student debt in the pursuit of one. Both studies make persuasive cases, though each could be misunderstood without important context. eCampus News Full Article
In an attempt to get in front of what is expected to be a scathing federal report released Monday, Phoenix-based Apollo Group Inc. has issued a comment piece in defense of its University of Phoenix flagship school. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, is expected to release the report on for-profit colleges and universities. It is not […]
Some UW faculty members, after political clashes with Gov. Scott Walker, remain skeptical of UW Flexible Degree eSchool News Full Story
The Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU) welcomes the appointment of Professor Asha Kanwar as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) effective from 1 June 2012 succeeding Sir John Daniel, whose term as COL’s President ends on 31 May 2012. Prof Kanwar, presently Vice President of COL, is to become […]
The Academic Senate at the University of California at Los Angeles voted 53 to 46 Thursday to approve a proposal to stop accepting any state funds for the university’s M.B.A. program, and to replace those funds with tuition revenue and private support. The proposal — the subject of intense debate for nearly two years — […]
(Reuters) – An association of for-profit colleges partly won an appeal against the U.S. department of education on rules relating to deceptive advertising and distance education. Full Article
