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• http://www.lgc plus.com/News/ 2008/11/mps_ba ck_regional_se lect_committee s.html: Regional select committees have been given approval by MPs - despite concern about their cost.

Thu Nov 20

• Minnesota task force aimed at student-athlet es | USATODAY.com: C.P. Schlatter, a former All-America wrestler at the University of Minnesota, says he majored in nursing even though some of his coaches suggested that he take an "easier&q uot; major so he could "breeze through" to an undergraduate degree. "Their philosophy was you could always go back to (graduate) school and get (a master's) degree, but you can never go back to competing again," Schlatter says. "So their philosophy was (to) take a lighter load."
• Times-Chronicl e Higher Education Cabinet To Add CCs After Protests | Community College Week | The independent voice servicing community, junior and technical colleges: A ?higher education cabinet? formed by The New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education will be reconstituted after an outcry from community college leaders that they had been excluded from the original 76-member panel. ?We are in the process of rethinking this group, including adding two-year colleges? after hearing from angry community college leaders who strongly objected to the makeup of the group, said Chronicle Editor Jeff Zelingo.
• South Florida grad Okpaleke juggled basketball, books | USATODAY.com: Her road was among the least traveled by athletes in a USA TODAY study of the majors selected by juniors and seniors in five prominent and widely played NCAA Division I sports during the 2007-08 school year. Of the roughly 9,300 upperclassmen in football, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball and softball covered in the study, Okpaleke was among 1.3% in a biology-relate d field and one of six in biomedical sciences.
• College athletes cluster majors at most schools | USATODAY.com: When the NCAA adopted new rules in 2003 intended to improve graduation rates of athletes, critics countered that under pressure to keep athletes progressing toward a degree, schools might cut academic corners to help the athletes stay eligible to play. Teams now can lose scholarships and access to postseason play if enough athletes are not on track to receive a degree or do not graduate.
• Concerns About Clustering | Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs: Figuring out whether the recent gains in graduation rates of NCAA athletes have been achieved through good means or bad is next to impossible, as the factors are many and evidence about such things as the academic qualifications of incoming athletes is hard to come by. But USA Today on Wednesday published a special report that provides significant evidence that athletes on many high-profile teams ?cluster? in certain majors. About a third of all football, men?s and women?s basketball, baseball and softball teams at the 142 colleges examined had at least 25 percent of their juniors and seniors in the same major field of study, and on more than half of those teams ? 125 of 235 ? at least 40 percent of the upperclassmen were in the same major.
• College athletes studies guided toward 'major in eligibility' | USATODAY.com: Steven Cline left Kansas State University last spring with memories of two years as a starting defensive lineman for a major-college football team. He left with a diploma, credits toward a master's degree and a place on the 2007 Big 12 Conference all-academic team. He also left with regrets about accomplishing all of this by majoring in social sciences ? a program that drew 34% of the football team's juniors and seniors last season, compared with about 4% of all juniors and seniors at Kansas State. Cline says he found not-so-demandi ng courses that helped him have success in the classroom and on the field but did little for his dream of becoming a veterinarian.
• 'Market Tolerance' Is Helping Set University Tuition, Report Says | Chronicle.com: Tuition rates at major research universities are increasingly being determined by ?market tolerance,? and those rates are converging, ?driven in part by the perception that price confers quality and a corresponding level of prestige to consumers,? according to a new paper from the University of California at Berkeley?s Center for Studies in Higher Education. The authors of the paper, ?The Big Curve: Trends in University Fees and Financing in the EU and US,? analyzed prices at 24 top public and private institutions, and the findings are likely to be of special interest in tuition-averse Europe.
• Lobbying Groups Object to Education Department's New Data-Mining Authority | The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Education Department?s inspector general's office plans to create a new central database of computer records that it hopes will help the office do a better job of detecting waste and abuse in government programs. Several higher-educati on lobbying...
• Privacy Concerns About U.S. Database | Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs: As a general rule, big government databases aren?t especially popular, and higher education?s recent experiences with them ? be they the relatively new federal database to track foreign students in the wake of September 11, or a proposed ?unit records? database to track the academic success of students as they move through the educational system ? have generated controversy. Little wonder, then, that advocates for colleges and students are more than a little concerned ? okay, freaked out ? by a plan by the U.S. Department of Education?s Office of Inspector General to gather personally identifiable information from nine existing databases of grant, loan and contract recipients into one giant ?data analytics system? and by the Education Department?s decision to waive certain privacy rules for the new records system.
• Teaching students 21st-century skills - The Boston Globe: IF STUDENTS are to succeed in today's complex economy, they need to know more than just English, math, science, and history. They also need a range of analytic and workplace skills. So says an important new report on 21st-century skills, which concludes that though Massachusetts schools have made impressive progress in the last 15 years, many students still don't graduate with the abilities today's jobs require.
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• New Model for Education Research :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs: Current practices in education research ? most of which is conducted in a university setting ? are insufficient to meet the demand for a better K-12 system, the new president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching says.
• Universally measuring the value of digital could soon become a reality - iMediaConnecti on.com

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