Here is a screen cast I did.

Times online offers a weekly feature written by students about the university they attend. Over a dozen exist including:

function pictureGalleryPopup(pubUrl,articleId) {var newWin = window.open(pubUrl+’template/2.0-0/element/pictureGalleryPopup.jsp?id=’+articleId+’&&offset=0&&sectionName=StudentUniversityGuides’,’mywindow’,’menubar=0,resizable=0,width=615,height=655′);}

A Student’s Guide to … University of Portsmouth

A recent facelift has added excellent facilities to a city-centre campus with a great community feel

A student’s guide to … Aston University
A uni that [...]

With March Madness here, April Anxiety lurks just around the corner. Some reflection and calling for calm:
If I ruled the admissions universe - The Boston Globe
If I ruled this new admissions universe, I would study the applications and sniff out the resume padders whose parents could afford the semester in the rain forests. [...]

Korea continues to change their university admission procedures.
donga.com [english donga]
Twelve universities, including Seoul National University, Korea University, and Yonsei University, have adopted a new admission system whereby a group of admission specialists select students based not only on their academic performance but also on their social and personal qualities.

Once upon a time, there were three college systems that grew up with
the same parent–California. California wanted to make sure they all
fulfilled a unique roll in society and so gave them unique names:

California Community Colleges
University of California-UC to us
California State University–Cal State or CSU for short.

In the old days, the colleges were all very unique. [...]

I can smell the Fish tacos, hear the screams of Splash mountain and
visualize the superheros parading their way to Comicon as I talk with
San Diego State university, one of the gems of higher education in
California. One of the oldest California, SDSU
is also one of the largest with 35,000 students congregating on the
beautiful Spanish style architecture. [...]

Once upon a time, German higher education was the envy of the world.
In fact, US land Grant Colleges are modeled very much after the German
system integrating government research into the university experience.
Back in the trun of the century, many of the greatest scholars would
end up in Germany at some point in their studies, much like  [...]

As I slide down the bracket I am now a firm believer in the Ides of March. Schools previously not on kids radar screen gain a presitge and public awareness boost ever march when their teams make the annual basketball tournement watched by millions. In fact a Vrigina Tech Researcher claims the boost is as [...]

As the fat envelope season roles around, more skinny letters are coming out–and U T Austin leads the way.
81 percent of UT’s admission offers go to top 10 percent grads | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
The University of Texas at Austin reserved a record 81 percent of its fall admission offers this year [...]

Does college make the person? The Unibomber went to Harvard. Hmmmm. This is not meant to be a Harvard bashing post but rather a celebration of people and where they went to college. The most striking thing is that lots of different colleges are represented.
Then, in
alphabetical order:
Joseph Aboud, U.
Mass
Tim Allen, Western Michigan
University
Kofi Annan,
Macalester
George Bodenheimer, [...]