Traditional higher education has historically done a lackluster job of offering vocationally-oriented education programs and meeting the needs of non-traditional students.

FORBES: The Ill Wind of Gainful Employment

Proponents of the rule argue that gainful employment will reduce instances of fraud and abuse of the federal loan programs, suggesting that colleges that offer career-oriented education and happen to do so for a profit are the only egregious transgressors in the postsecondary education sector.

FORBES: The Ill Wind of Gainful Employment

The new Administration's incoming Education Secretary, Rod Paige, sounds like a results-oriented, no-excuses-accepted individual.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Building the capacity for such future-oriented action is a key task of education.

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What we need is an ecosystem characterized by new approaches to education that will re-kindle the desire to pursue STEM-oriented disciplines.

FORBES: Solving The Other Jobs Crisis: Creating An Innovation Culture

Despite recent efforts by the government and the private sector to encourage students to pursue careers in STEM-oriented disciplines, the gap between those pursuing STEM education in the U.S relative to other countries shows no signs of closing.

FORBES: Solving The Other Jobs Crisis: Creating An Innovation Culture

The region's nimbler, more market-oriented colleges have been helped by the new practice of dividing education into chunks (bachelor's and master's degrees, for a start), with work sandwiched in between.

ECONOMIST: Central European universities

Participants will aim for an internationally-agreed set of actions to ensure that Higher Education and research play a strategic role in knowledge creation and sharing for a more sustainable, inclusive and development-oriented future.

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