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TEDxNYED 2013 Inside-Outside

April 27, 2013

TEDxNYED is a New York City-based TEDx event focused on education. The theme of this year’s TEDxNYED is Inside-Outside, a discussion about education from both inside...

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The 2013 School Leadership Summit

March 28, 2013

The Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL) and Steve Hargadon are pleased to announce the inaugural virtual and worldwide School Leadership Summit, Thursday, March...

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Designing Modern Learning Environments: Design Thinking for Education Leaders Hangout

February 20, 2013

GETideas.org seeks to help education leaders understand the impact of environment on learning and to leverage design when attempting to transform education systems. This Google...

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Midwest Educational Technology Conference (METC)

February 11 - February 13, 2013

  Midwest Education Technology Conference February 11-13, 2013 St. Charles Convention CenterSt. Louis, Missouri http://2013.metcconference.org/...

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U.S. Higher Education Leaders Call for Bold Action on Attainment

January 24, 2013

In an open letter released yesterday, leading U.S. college and university presidents called upon their colleagues to make retention and completion a critical priority to stem...

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Bringing It All Together: Empowering Education Leaders to Innovate Hangout

January 30, 2013

GETideas.org hosts this GooglePlus hangout to engage with noted thought leaders on how to help educators innovate. The discussion includes a dialogue on how innovation in...

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Public Universities to Offer Free Online Classes for Credit

January 23, 2013

In an arrangement with commercial company Academic Partnerships, dozens of public universities plan to offer an introductory online course free and for credit to anyone...

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State Spending on U.S. Higher Education Rebounds in Most States after Years of Decline

January 22, 2013

After falling nearly 11% since the 2008 fiscal year, state appropriations for U.S. higher education are on the rise in most states. Long-term effects of...

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• National Coalition Mobilizes to Drive U.S. College Completion

  Source: Source > Reuters

  June 9, 2011

  Today, to increase the nation’s college-completion rate, a broad coalition of U.S. organizations announced the launch of the National Coalition for College Completion. Led by the Institute for Higher Education Policy, the coalition is a group of leaders from outside the education space, including business, civil rights, community-based, and student and youth advocacy organizations–ranging from CEOs for Cities and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America to the National Urban League and mobilize.org.

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• London’s Newly Announced Private College Hits Some Snags

  Source: Source > The Chronicle of Higher Education

  June 9, 2011

  The establishment of a new private liberal-arts college in London already has hit several significant snags. A.C. Grayling, a well-known philosopher and the driving force behind the for-profit New College of the Humanities (NCH), had said that its students would have access to many resources at the University of London, including its libraries.

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• U.S. Senate Hearing: High Debts from For-Profit Schools

  Source: Source > Associated Press

  June 7, 2011

  Speaking at a U.S. Senate hearing this week, Democratic lawmakes and education experts said that students attending for-profit colleges are subject to subprime mortgage-like loans that saddle them with thousands of dollars in debt and waste millions in taxpayer dollars. The hearing came just days after the Department of Education issued

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• Oxford University Delivers Stinging Verdict on England’s Higher Education Reforms

  Source: Source > Guardian News

  June 7, 2011

  Oxford University formally has reached a near-unanimous vote of “no confidence” in the policies of the universities minister, David Willetts. Oxford is the first to take a public stand against the raising of tuition fees and slashing of the teaching grant, but the rebellion is spreading.

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• Ten British Universities Could Fail after £9,000 Tuition Fees

  Source: Source > The Telegraph

  June 7, 2011

  Up to 10 universities in Britain are in financial difficulty and risk failing as a result of the introduction of £9,000 tuition fees, said Margaret Hodge, head of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Hodge said the Coalition may be forced to slash student places or increase taxpayer contributions to plug a shortfall in the higher education budget worth hundreds of millions of pounds.

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• Federal Budget Fails to Deliver Affordable Education for Canadians

  Source: Source > Canada NewsWire

  June 7, 2011

  The second iteration of the 2011 federal budget once again fails to make post-secondary education affordable for most Canadians. ”Record-high levels of student debt threaten Canada’s economic prosperity,” said Roxanne Dubois, National Chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students. “Record high student debt acts as an unfair barrier to starting a family, purchasing a home, or saving for retirement.”

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• U.S. Government to Monitor University Fee Increases

  Source: Source > University World News

  June 6, 2011

   The U.S. federal government will attempt to restrict the rise of college tuition fees from July 1, after which universities planning significant tuition increases will be required to report to the Department of Education the reason for the increase and the actions that will be taken to minimize costs.  

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• Top U.K. Academics Form New University

  Source: Source > Forbes

  June 6, 2011

  A group of prominent British professors is starting a private university in London with the goal of providing an education to rival the country’s elite institutions in Oxford and Cambridge. The New College of the Humanities will be led by A.C. Grayling, a renowned philosophy professor, and the faculty will include Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist and successful author, and economics professor and writer Niall Ferguson. The college will offer degrees in literature, history, economics, law, and other disciplines.

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