no new posts this week as I will be in Southern China with students working for Habita for humanity.
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Lifehacker is offering one of the most comprehensive round-ups of higher education courses avaible online and for FREE:

You, too, can be an autodidact; the breadth of free educational materials available online is absolutely astonishing.
Technophilia: Get a free college education online - Lifehacker:

The range really is incredible. From Stanford and Berkely to Michigan state and Carangie [...]

ContraCostaTimes.com offers Tried-and-true advice for essays:

Don’t put too much pressure on yourself.

Don’t write something you think the admissions committee wants to hear.

Don’t submit the essay until you have had someone else — preferably an adult with an eagle eye and a grasp of good grammar — read it.

Don’t let someone else [...]

With Harvard and Princeton’s decision to drop their early programs, the pressure is on for other colleges to either follow suite or justify why they keep them. Initial press reaction was positive. Now the pundits have begun to offer counter arguements. Jay Mathews from the Washington Post offer Six reasons to Keep Early:
1. It relieves [...]

Bill Belew  over at The Biz of Knowledge  offers four reasons NOT to study in Europe:
1. It’s different - In Europe, class hours are minimal and students must motivate themselves as opposed to relying on being spoonfed.
2. It’s different - Students unions are the social life instead of fraternities and sororities, large-scale [...]

“The Creative Age is a wide-open game.”  —Richard Florida,  The Rise of the Creative Class
I don’t mean to bad mouth Business schools, but I am thinking a lot about the future of higher education, learning not in the information age, for that is actually passed. Learning in the age of creation. “Human creativity is the [...]

According to the Christina Science Monitor, the five most popular majors two years ago (2004) were:
1. Business - 21.9 percent
2. Social science - 10.7 percent
3. Education - 7.6 percent
4. Psychology - 5.9 percent
5. Engineering - 5.6 percent

My thoughts:
Going to university solely for career prepapration misses one [...]

So says Dr. Weisbuch of Drew University in reponse to which college a kid attends.
Princeton Stops Its Early Admissions, Joining Movement to Make Process Fairer - New York Times:
Many of the presidents said one of their goals would be to instill in high school seniors a sense that which college they attended did not [...]

Harvard’s decision to end its early action application plan caught virtually everyone by surprise. Now it’s competitors will have to take a long hard look at their programs. First out of the gate:
Princeton University - Princeton to end early admission:
Princeton University will end its early admission program and admit all undergraduates through a single [...]