Higher Education

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The dangers of knowledge without wisdom

Steven Schwartz | 28 February 2012 |

tags: higher education, liberal education

Which should be uppermost in students’ minds: a good job or a good life?

College blues and the twinkie factor

Kevin Ryan | 13 January 2012 |

tags: higher education, mental illness

How should a college professor deal with students' mental health excuses?

Should China be our model in higher education?

Thomas C. Reeves | 03 January 2012 |

tags: China, higher education

The notion that universities should teach only subjects which are useful and profitable is nonsense.

Is American higher education cheating students?

Thomas C. Reeves | 29 November 2011 |

tags: higher education, liberal arts

There are many surprises in a survey of what students actually learn at college. Some leading institutions get Ds.

Professing at the podium

Alma Acevedo | 16 November 2011 |

tags: higher education, post-modernism

The problem with some professors is that they only seem to know one thing: problems.

Unwinding Marquette’s unhiring

Thaddeus J. Kozinski | 03 June 2010 |

tags: higher education, homosexuality, liberalism

A leading Catholic university has rescinded a job offer to a lesbian academic, prompting allegations of illiberal discrimination. Who’s at fault?

Do we need more college graduates?

Thomas C. Reeves | 11 May 2010 |

tags: higher education

Vocational training is one thing. Engagement with the great questions of life, culture and politics is another.

Never tire of asking questions

Jack Martin | 11 May 2010 |

tags: higher education, science, stem cell research

A university education enables students to scrutinise ethically dubious claims made by some scientists

Liberalism and higher education

Christopher O. Tollefsen | 11 May 2010 |

tags: freedom, higher education, liberalism

We all agree that we should be free, equal and independent. But what does it mean to be free?