From Wired, a look at 7 essential skills you didn't learn in college. Hyper-libertarian Facebook billionaire Peter Thiel's appalling plan to pay students to quit college. The test has been canceled: Final exams are quietly vanishing from college. Elite colleges, or colleges for the elite? Giving preference to children of alumni during the admissions process is basically affirmative action for the rich. How a “college for all” philosophy leaves everyone behind. Religion, science, and the academy: Should universities work to keep religion away from science — or to bring them closer? Studying religion is suddenly popular, but is it really an “esoteric” field for “do-gooders”? More and more and more and more on Higher Education? by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus. John Henry Newman's vision for university revolutionised the global academy; David Grumett discusses its development and impact. Conceived as a cosmopolitan educational oasis, New York University Abu Dhabi is among the first products of the emirate’s cultural ambitions. Thank you for not hating NYU. What to do when college is not the best time of your life. Here is a new trend: college for people who can't read or write. Marshall Poe on ending America’s fruitless battle with college boozing. Columbia University establishes the first academic center for Palestine studies. A professor’s review of online cheat sheets: Guides to the literary canon, foreign languages, economics, popular fiction and even song lyrics are now available online or on cellphones. A review of Higher Education and the American Dream: Success and its Discontents by Marvin Lazerson. The five-year party: At “subprime” colleges and universities the emphasis is on fun, not education. A review of The People's University: A History of the California State University by Donald Gerth. The R.O.T.C. Myth: Elite colleges haven’t forced out the military — it left.
