Describes how, as the population of elderly people continues to grow, medical schools are beefing up geriatrics programs to prepare students for their future patients. (EV)

Explores how the collapse of dot-coms has produced an increase in applications to business schools. Students previously interested in start-up companies, along with recruiters previously interested in young, non-traditionally educated employees, are rethinking the value of a business degree. (EV)

Reports a high demand at law schools for courses on Internet issues, Cyberlaw, but notes that some critics question whether the topic warrants its own specialty. Suggests the appeal is based on intellectual excitement about the burgeoning field, the high technology comfort level of students who grew up with the Internet, and the promise of…

Under pressure to improve undergraduate instruction and prepare a new generation of faculty, colleges and universities are strengthening their training programs for teaching assistants, extending them far beyond traditional one-day orientations. Increasingly, participation is required. The most effective efforts appear to be centralized programs…

Internet-based master's programs in business administration (M.B.A.s) serve a market that could bring significant revenues to business schools, providing new access to mid- to upper-level managers who want degrees to advance their careers but who cannot take time from work, or to young executives whose bosses offer to pay for the degree but not…

As nurse practitioners increasingly move into practice areas once reserved for primary-care physicians, and as medical schools move more toward general practice and primary care, medical and nursing students are competing for a limited number of slots in which they can receive on-the-job clinical instruction. With professional boundaries…