Tag: higher education
Bill Would Extend Pell Grant by Four Semesters
Reps. Haley Stevens (D-MI) and Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) have introduced the Pell to Grad Act. The Pell to Grad Act will increase lifetime Pell Grant eligibility and expand Pell Grant eligibility to graduate programs.
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South African and European Universities Form Consortium to Boost Use of Indigenous Languages
South Africa’s university system notoriously lacks instructional programs offered in the nation’s Indigenous languages, like isiXhosa and Sesotho. Currently, English and Afrikaans are the only languages widely used in university-level coursework, however even Afrikaans’...
Keeping Up with les Voisins
Michael Ballagh questions the rankings race in study abroad participation
U.S. institutions of higher education have long sought validation in the rankings system dominated by entities such as U.S. News and Forbes. Less commonly known...