Colleges factor flexibility for students into fall reopening plans
Dive Brief: Many colleges continue to announce plans to reopen campuses for the fall term, though potentially on a shortened...
Day: June 4, 2020
Pay rose 2.4% last year for nonexempt college staff, but crisis threatens jobs
Dive Brief: Pay for nonexempt staff rose a median 2.4% last year, marking the biggest annual increase since the College...
News literacy critical as students face national ‘infodemic’
When Michelle Chikaonda decided to volunteer at a meal distribution site in West Philadelphia, she didn’t know she’d soon be...
Amid protests, educators prepare for difficult discussions
Dive Brief: Amid ongoing protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by Minneapolis police, school...
HSK exams for Mandarin learners to add three new levels
Launched in 1991, the HSK and its sister exams the HSKK (for spoken Chinese), the YCT (for young learners) and...
Parents opting to home-school beyond closures add to school finance concerns
Kristen Smith’s 10-year-old son is a self-motivated student who loves to learn. And while Smith has been told multiple times...
NZ considers options to bring international students back to its campuses
Victoria University of Wellington vice-chancellor, Grant Guilford, revealed that institutions were mulling using charter flights to bring students safely to...
Study Texas launches video to promote state as study destination
According to the IIE’s Open Doors report, Texas is the third most popular spot for international students in the US,...
International students face “profound” problems with mental health due to crisis
In a set of interviews that took place as part of the PIE Perspectives video series, stakeholders explained that in...
Droplets app adjusts to help distance learners
Droplets – one of the company’s language learning apps teaching 32 languages which launched earlier this year – has adjusted...
