The winners, including Times Higher Education, UK upmarket teen educator Oxford Royale Academy and the University of Hertfordshire, were announced on May 6. Paul Howarth THE CEO said receiving the “prestigious award” was an “an absolute career highlight for me and an amazing seal of approval for the tremendous work THE does for one of the…
SCOTUS NEWS By Amy Howe on May 20, 2024 at 10:55 am The Supreme Court did not add any new cases to its merits docket for the 2024-25 term in a scheduled list of written orders on Monday morning. The justices denied review in over 60 cases, including a challenge to a Maryland county’s guidelines…
Travel back with me, if you will, to early April 1865. After losing a battle at Richmond, Virginia, Robert E. Lee retreated west, trying to rejoin other elements of the Confederate Army. Ulysses S. Grant cut off Lee’s retreat at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Lee realized that he was surrounded and out of options. On…
Listen to the article 11 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Earlier this year, Yale University joined a handful of other Ivy League and highly selective institutions that shed their policies making standardized tests optional for applicants. Other prestigious institutions that have recently reverted back to policies requiring…
The regulator is calling on providers in England to “look carefully” at the credibility of their forecasts and make changes to funding models after the review found a decline in financial performance in 2022-23. It painted a picture of declining surplus levels, cash flow and net liquidity, with more providers expected to fall into deficits in…
* Will Trump testify? [Reuters] * Red Lobster files for bankruptcy. All-you-can eat shrimp was a bad choice. [CNN] * ABA committee opening up to alternative licensing. [ABA Journal] * Do lawyers ever stop working? (No). [Law360] * Julian Assange granted appeal ahead of extradition. [Law360] * As Biglaw works to build poach-proof firms, diversifying…
Many students are still unable to acquire a STEM degree because the pipeline from high school to a degree in STEM remains inequitable and inaccessible. A National Science Board report found that high school science and math performance is not equally distributed across the country, with vast differences in performance based on race, ethnicity and…
The scope and scale of accounts receivables in higher education have never been larger. While manual processes for tracking and following up with student debt might have been sufficient in the past, institutions enroll potentially hundreds of thousands of students and manage millions of dollars in past-due accounts today. Every institution needs a stronger fiscal…
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 1, 2019 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Nearly all dedicated NPR listeners have had the experience of sitting in their car with the radio on after arriving at their destination simply because they could not tear themselves away from a fascinating segment. By contrast, most…
During his time at the Toyota Motor Company, Taiichi Ohno developed a tool for root cause analysis, the technique we know as the five whys. According to Ohno (1988), “By asking why five times and answering it each time, we can get to the real cause of the problem, which is often hidden behind more…