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Direct linkUniversities UK, 2016
Universities transform lives. Going to university leads to new ways of seeing the world, to new horizons and networks, and to significantly enhanced job opportunities, but not everyone benefits in the same way. Fewer students from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds go to university, and when they do they tend not to do as well as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Higher Education, Access to Education
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Download full textContinuing Higher Education Review, 2008
This article presents an interview with Mary Bitterman and James Narduzzi. Mary Bitterman, former President and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation, is President of The Bernard Osher Foundation and Immediate Past Chairman of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). James Narduzzi is Dean of the University of Richmond's School of Continuing Studies.…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Adult Students, Reentry Students, Scholarships
Evans, Henry R. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
The General Education Board has, since its foundation in 1902, to July 1, 1921, appropriated $88,125,444.56 for various phases of educational work, $80,408,344.99 of this having been paid to or set aside for colleges and other institutions for whites, $5,806,205.62 for institutions for Negroes, and $1,910,893.95 for miscellaneous objects. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Income
Evans, Henry R. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
The General Education Board has, since its foundation in 1902, to June 30, 1928, appropriated $176,689,425.54 for the promotion of education in the United States. Of this sum $112,163,437.95 was paid to colleges and other institutions for Whites; $12,991,854.75 to institutions for Negroes; and $1,317.023.91 to miscellaneous objects. This report…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, National Surveys
Jones, Thomas Jesse – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The past year has witnessed considerable progress in the field of Negro education, despite adverse conditions brought about by the war. Probably the most significant event of the year was the appointment in Texas of a State supervisor of rural Negro schools, whose salary and expenses are paid entirely by the State. Short terms, poor schoolhouses,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, African American Education, State Departments of Education, Trade and Industrial Teachers
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
This bulletin focuses on these topics: (1) Higher education; (2) Some recent movements in city school systems; (3) Constructive tendencies in rural education; (4) Medical education; (5) The progress of dental education; (6) Recent progress in legal education; (7) Art education in the United States; (8) Industrial education; (9) Agricultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Land Grant Universities, Special Education, Average Daily Attendance
