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CHEYENNE – Three years is plenty of time to allow Wyoming’s unaccredited, private universities to become accredited as a condition for doing business in the state, State Superintendent Jim McBride said Wednesday.Read the Full Story
In the latest blow to Google Inc.’s Print Library Project, which aims to scan books from major public and academic libraries into its powerful internet search engine, an organization of more than 8,000 authors has accused the company of “massive copyright infringement,” saying Google cannot put its books in the public domain for commercial use […]
The Governor’s circular asking regular varsities to stop conducting correspondence courses will adversly affect poor students who want to pursue higher education.Read the Full Story
Vice-chairman of the University Grants Commission VN Rajasekharan Pillai told FE, “There is need to identify five or six high quality institutions in pure sciences, economics and humanities, give them focused support in terms of resource allocation, and nurture and build brands in the same way as IITs for engineering, IIMs for management, AIIMS for […]
The authors are Robert Zemsky, a professor and chair of the Learning Alliance at the University of Pennsylvania; Gregory R. Wegner, director of program development at the Great Lakes Colleges Association; and William F. Massy, a professor emeritus of higher education at Stanford University and currently president of the Jackson Hole Higher Education Group. The […]
A bill to provide education relief to victims of Hurricane Katrina would temporarily remove a controversial distance-education regulation, allowing some students attending virtual colleges to receive federal financial aid for the first time.Read the Full Story
Three authors filed suit against Google yesterday contending that the company’s program to create searchable digital copies of the contents of several university libraries constituted “massive copyright infringement.”Read the Full Story
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today announced the formation of the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education.Read the Full Story
NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Sanfilippo is of two minds when it comes to Google’s ambitious program to scan millions of books and make their text fully searchable on the Internet.Read the Full Story
A Senate committee last week passed a major update to the law governing the nation’s higher-education institutions, providing funding for–and putting the onus on–colleges and universities to better prepare students for success in the global economy.Read the Full Story
