Reputations are made and earned by virtue of what you do and
do not do. As you begin the college search process, you need to be aware that
you are already projecting an image. And, although you might not like that
people are judging you for some of the most trivial things, the plain and
simple fact is that [...]

Okay, you have not been to college…yet. Invariably you will wish that college better prepared you. Over at NextPath, an educational finance newsletter, they reflect on what they hoped to learn…The author states: “One of the main purposes of college is to prepare you for the real world. My personal experience is that what you [...]

I have blogged about the potential values of podcasts for educators before here and at Utechtips. I will probably blog on it again, because frankly I love podcasts. I love that educational instituons see their communities far beyond the houses around their ivy covered walls. It occurs to me, students could use university podcasts to [...]

Conversations about colleges often remind of this conversation between Alice and the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland:
Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to
Alice: I don’t much care where.
The Cat: Then it doesn’t much matter [...]

Last Friday, former Harvard dean and current professor, Harry Lewis, gave a talk following two days of meetings with some of the universities here. He promoted his book, Excellence Without a Soul: How A Great University Forgot Education. The talk ranged from a class reunion to a little insider banter. He made some thought provoking [...]

The sort answer is YES: The British Council articulates how in their newsletter.
As long as your students’ UK universities have registered with the US Department of Education, they are able to take their US Federal Stafford and PLUS loans with them when they study across the pond. Although
federal grants such as the Pell [...]

Is the dirty secret of college admission that qualified Asian students are not admitted because they are Asian? Do less qualified students gain admission over their oriental counterparts because they are NOT Asian?
As if to illustrate the point, a study released in October by the Center for Equal Opportunity, an advocacy group opposing race-conscious admissions, [...]

The world, they say, is flat. And in flat world, careers are defined not exculsively by national boundaries. You will interact, certainly indirectly and with growing certainty, directly with co-workers from far flung corners. This demands  new aculturation and language skills, as well as skills for the 21st century. What has been part and parcel [...]

Happy new year!
With the earthquake in Taiwan, internet response time became brutal, plus I wastravelling and really just giving my ingers a rest. No blogging here, at IB psychology nor at Utechtips. Well new year and time for new topics. Even with lots of seniors just finished their applications (and even a few who have [...]