When Should You Go to Grad School?
Professors and Copyright Experts Urge Academics to Reclaim Fair...
Grad School During a Recession: Yes or No?
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Ph.D. and Starving: The Plight of the Adjunct
For the past several decades, colleges and universities have relied more heavily on adjunct...
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Do You Need a Master's Degree to Get a Job?
Once considered the consolation prize for not completing a Ph.D., the master's degree has become the new bachelor's degree in the current...
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How To Decide if Grad School is Right for You
The current economy has left many job seekers frustrated and considering the option of attending graduate school. However, because of the...
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Debt Ceiling Compromise Deals Blow to Borrowing Grad Students
The good higher ed news to emerge from the debt ceiling deal struck by lawmakers: Pell grants have survived more than $2 trillion in...
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How Enterprising Grad Students Kickstart Their Research
Online fundraising websites like Kickstarter are revolutionizing the way startups get funded. But inventors and entrepreneurs aren't the...
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Faculty Workload is Higher Than Reported
When people think about teaching jobs, they might think about the regulated work schedule, including summers off and long winter breaks....
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Why Alumni Should Stay Connected to Their Alma Mater
Staying connected after graduation can mean more than just getting calls for donations. Alumni...
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What You Can Expect on the New GRE
The general portion of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is getting a makeover. Many individuals around the world use this logic and...
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Enforcing Copyright: How Scholars Can Protect Their Work
The Digital Revolution has created a cut-and-paste world in which it is increasingly easy for individuals to copy others' work and,...
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What's the Value of an Honorary Degree?
For over three hundred years, U.S. colleges and universities have bestowed honorary degrees on politicians, musicians, writers, actors,...
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Respecting Copyright: How Students Can Avoid Rights Infringement
Public domain or protected work? Fair use or copyright infringement? Many people in education...
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Copyright Law Made Simple: How Students Can Protect Their Work
Copyright legislation was first passed into U.S. law more than 200 years ago. Regulations protecting original works from infringement...
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Game-Changer for Researchers: Education-Portal.com Speaks with...
Education-Portal.com recently attended the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC), a gathering of educators and professionals interested in the...
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Creative Commons Licenses Can Help You Avoid Copyright Infringement
The Internet makes sharing images, music, and video as easy 'copy-paste.' However, that type of sharing is not always legal. Creative...
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After Napster: Intellectual Property Violations on Campus
Free music and movies? Sounds great. Unfortunately, the catch is that most of the ways you can get free media aren't entirely legal. You...
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Intellectual Property Laws and Regulations Abroad
International law is complex and fascinating. At a certain point, though, you need to get down to brass tacks and figure out what is and...
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Promoting Human Rights Around the World: Stanford Interdisciplinary...
While many in academia have traditionally been reluctant to engage in study outside of their...
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Higher Higher Education: Finishing Your Grad School Application
Applying to graduate school can seem like a full time job, but with some careful organization and lots of planning it'll be decision time...
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Student/Teacher: Tips for Being a Great TA
Graduate students: Feeling intimidated by your first TA assignment? Don't miss the following tips for reducing your stress and becoming...
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Who's Applying to American Graduate Programs?
There's a good chance that you might be seeing more international students in your college courses. A recently released report from the...
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Higher Higher Education: Fulfilling Your Grad School Prerequisites
Finishing your bachelor's degree is just the first step in preparing for graduate school. Most...
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Higher Higher Education: Choosing the Right Grad School
So you have (or almost have) your bachelor's degree - now what? Graduate school can give you the opportunity to specialize your education...
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Vanessa Prokuski Talks Med School and Viral Videos with...
Like many med students, Vanessa Prokuski (a second-year at Drexel University) is concerned with things that go viral. But it's not just...
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The Mizzou Advantage: a Plan to Address the Ph.D. Employment Problem
The job market in nearly every area is pretty tough right now. At the beginning of the recession, many people decided to try to wait it...
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Advanced Degrees for Better Health?
Popular opinion holds that the further into higher education one delves, the more stressful things become. From quizzes and finals to...
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How to Survive Architecture School
Before choosing to enter a program in architecture, you no doubt did your homework. You know, for example, that it can be a grueling...
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Law Schools Admissions: Get the Edge
Trying to get into law school? Good grades and LSAT scores will only take you so far. But if you...
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How to Survive Law School
Congratulations - you've been accepted into law school. Of course, now the real work begins. You'll need to be at your best from the very...
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How to Survive Medical School
Most people have a perception of med school that includes countless hours of lectures, lab work and studying without much sleep along the...
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Graduate School from A to Z
Thinking about grad school? Whether you're planning to earn a master's degree, doctorate or professional degree, you'll cover a lot of...
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Certificate Programs in the U.S.
Looking for a postsecondary education that will provide you with practical skills that can move...
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Not Sure What to Do With Your Degree? Try Graduate School
As the job market continues to flounder, more and more people are turning to graduate school to fill time and improve their job...
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A Passion For Healing: Profile of a Nursing Student
Still searching for a career path? Consider nursing: Health care is one of the most rapidly expanding fields in the U.S., and nursing is...
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Thinking About Business or Law School? Get the Facts on Top Schools...
The Princeton Review recently released the 2011 editions of its Best 300 Business Schools and Best 172 Law Schools. Rather than rank the...
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Graduate Admissions Increase for International Students, Drop for...
In a recent survey of graduate admissions in the U.S., the Council of Graduate Schools found that the number of admission offers to...
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Calling All Engineering Students: Want to Design a Space Project...
NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) are seeking university engineering students for their annual Revolutionary Aerospace...
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Quality Control: New Report Criticizes Teacher Education Programs and...
The Center for American Progress recently released an analysis of teacher education programs...
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American Graduate Education: Are We Losing Our Competitive Edge in...
A report from the Commission on the Future of Graduate Education found that many American students do not go on to pursue graduate...
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Fifty Percent of Continuing Medical Education Will Be Delivered...
Most physicians receive their continuing medical education through live seminars and conferences, but that may soon change. A new study...
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Survey Says MBA Applicants Still Prefer the GMAT
A new survey just released by Kaplan Test Prep shows that MBA applicants still favor the GMAT over the GRE - even though most agree that...
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Medical Schools Growing to Meet Demand
It may no longer be so difficult to get into medical school in the U.S. - almost two dozen new...
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New Study Proposes Sweeping Overhaul of Nursing Education
The Carnegie Foundation's ''Educating Nurses: A Call For Radical Transformation'' is the first comprehensive national study of nursing...
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Why Students Don't Graduate
With the president calling for the U.S. to dramatically improve our national college completion rates, many organizations are taking a...
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American Rhodes Scholars for 2010 Are Announced
The 2010 American recipients of the Rhodes Scholarships have just been announced. These students will have the opportunity to live abroad...
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Rankings: Best Business Schools
Business schools prepare students to be leaders with public and private companies, nonprofit organizations and government agencies....
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The Fulbright Program: An International Education Partnership
On the occasion of the deadline (today!) for 2010-2011 Fulbright scholarship applications, join us in exploring the history of the...
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Learn to Read Like an Academic
College reading isn't like high school reading. College students are expected to pick out themes,...
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