Conservatives are still mourning the loss of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady, after a stroke earlier this year.

In tribute, Oxford University has created a special scholarship to help education Britain’s future leaders:

Oxford University will launch a ‘future leaders’ scholarship trust in memory of Margaret Thatcher, backed by patrons including George...

We have recently covered the use of Kickstarter, the website whereby individuals network and pool their money via websites to support potentially profitable enterprises initiated by savvy entrepreneurs, to fund a Yale student’s “cross-country walk of silence” and city trash services.

Now, some elementary school kids are turning to this website to...

An picture taken in one college classroom is going viral, as it is a sentiment shared by faculty members nationwide:

Some things are better worn than said. At least that’s what one Austin Community College professor of English thinks, based on his “It’s in the syllabus” T-shirt.

A student posted a photo on...

Campuses across the nation tout their “Sex Week” activities as a way to promote student health.

Yet, despite the seemingly enthusiastic reception by many young scholars, some are none to thrilled with the nature of these events.

As the University of Maryland’s sex week comes to an end, the student newspaper The Diamondback published...

Because firms often complain about the difficulty of finding recent college alumni who have adequate training for available jobs, The Wall Street Journal asked some noted business experts for the reasons.

These experienced business professionals and professors had many eye-opening observations. Bruce Nolop,the former chief financial officer of Pitney Bowes Inc. and...

The rollout of the Obamacare exchange has been such a failure that there is now a website devoted to documenting how badly the administration is missing its enrollment goals nationwide.

And, as Maple Woods College student Alex Braud notes, that isn’t the only big government technical glitch costing taxpayers big time.

A routine...

File this story under “The Frontiers of Science”:

Student data analytics are not a miracle cure — nor are the models easy to set up — but some institutions represented at the annual Educause conference said they are already seeing the benefits of identifying at-risk students before they drop or fail a...

College Insurrection recently featured an introduction by Jonathan Taylor, the founder of “A Voice for Male Students”.

I had a chance to interview Jonathan on Canto Talk, along with Silvio Canto Jr (click here for the podcast). Jonathan was able to share some aspects of his website’s mission, including the desire to...

Sometimes students can learn more from a guest lecturer than a tenured professor.

Proving that point is Jeffrey Carter, an investor and independent trader, who shared his experiences with a group of eager college students (hat-tip, Instapundit).

Yesterday I had a lot of fun talking to students at the University of Illinois in...

The New York Times‘ Thomas Friedman, who is noted for his columns on foreign affairs, penned a piece discussing a key domestic issue: How young Americans are being hurt by policies supporting older groups (hat-tip, Silvio Canto Jr.)

Eventually this shutdown crisis will end. And eventually the two parties will make another...

We have been covering the responses to a book was written by former Secretary of Education, Bill Bennett entitled “Is College Worth It”.

The student editorial bo...

We recently reported that a donor rescinded a $100,000 gift to Westfield State University to protest the president’s self-centered spending.

Now, the school’s board suspends president, who is under investigation for lavish spending.

Five-time college president Evan Dobelle’s job hangs in the balance after he was placed on paid leave early this morning...

College Prowler has just released its list of the 10 most conservative colleges in America.

A worthwhile list for students and parents to consider when beginning the intense and expensive college application process.

1. Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Like BYU-Idaho, the BYU main campus is a private university associated with the Church...

Dartmouth College student William Alston asks some intriguing questions about the real consequences related to the federal government “shutdown”.

Despite being relatively secluded from the real world here, I’ve noticed that both the media and various government figures have been eager to produce exceedingly grim prognoses for...

Earlier this year, we noted that the Supreme Court was poised to look at a Michigan measure banning racial preferences in college admissions after implementation of the voter-approved rules were rejected by an appeals court.

Now, it looks like the conservative...

Across the nation, many student op-eds take the progressive position that the government shutdown is entirely the fault of the Republican Party.

However, Washington State University-Pullman student Ashley Lynn Fisher, share an entirely different view on Obama’s role in “shutdown theater”.

A slim down, not a shutdown.

As p...

In the rush to get high school graduates paying tuition, America’s education system is geared toward herding them into colleges.

Remedial courses were an option for those who arrived unprepared for college level work.  Paul Fain of Inside Higher Ed has the details on a new law that lets students skip these...

Samantha Watkins, a student at Point Loma Nazarene University, takes a look at a surprising new release from Hollywood about porn.

The surprise stems from the fact it explores the dangers of porn addiction.

Both Hollywood and mainstream colleges have proven reputations as secular-progressive and left-leaning. Yet once in a while,...

The fact that students are now challenging and/or mocking aspects of “diversity ” should be a big glue to college administrators sensitivity programs have “jumped the shark”.

For instance, Dartmouth Student Andrew Shanahan humorously reviews the plight of the short on campus:

Dartmouth has a problem — too many tall people. There are...

President Obama’s first name has been transmuted into a biting Twitter meme, and University of St. Thomas student Vladimir Davidiuk highlights the failure of the administration’s tactics to bar Americans from their national monuments.

In an effort to maximize the pain and inconvenience of the #ObamaShutdown of the Federal Government, the Obama...

There are many students from the Indian subcontinent attending American universities.

Proving turnabout is fair play, American University student Alison Pease shares the story of her experiences as a student in India.

…Unlike AU, Manipal University is in a small town in Karnataka, a state in southern India. Manipal is your typical college...

Instead of two candidates, two sets of stats related to Colorado’s education performance are battling for votes this November related to a proposed tax hike.

Brad Jones of The Daily Caller offers the details:

Colorado’s schools are either funded near the bottom of the national rankings, or K-12 schools get an average bite...