A South Korean court has ruled in favour of the government’s contentious plan to drastically boost medical school admissions. A stand-off between the government and doctors opposed to the plan has shaken the country’s medical system for months. More than 10,000 junior doctors have been on strike since February in protest. The Seoul High Court […]
“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a majority of the Supreme Court in last summer’s Students for Fair Admissions opinions, which held that affirmative action policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated the Constitution. While colleges can no longer use race as a factor […]
Apr. 22—The University of Maine System is seeing early success with its new pilot program to automatically admit students who never officially applied to one of its seven schools. Direct admissions — admitting students who never went through the often expensive and arduous application process — is growing in popularity around the country. Instead of […]
Mar. 22—AUSTIN — The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) was named one of seven winners of The Great Admissions Redesign competition, sponsored by Lumina Foundation. The THECB has received $250,000 to support the design and development for the initial implementation of the Direct Admissions Pathway. The Pathway will be featured within My Texas Future, […]
“The Daily Show” correspondent Jordan Klepper couldn’t hide his frustration with Nikki Haley supporters who fiercely condemned Donald Trump but then in the same interview admitted they’ll still probably vote for the former president if, as is increasingly likely, he takes on President Joe Biden in November. One Haley fan that Klepper talked with in […]
Thousands of senior doctors have marched through South Korean capital Seoul to voice support for junior doctors who have been on strike for nearly two weeks over a government plan to sharply increase the number of medical school admissions. The rally came as the government said it will begin to take steps on Monday to […]
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ended the practice of race-based college admissions, also known as affirmative action. Now, a new bill introduced in the California legislature seeks to end the practice of giving preferential college admission to people whose family members were alumni or big donors. Assembly Bill 1780 marks San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman […]
Colleges around the country are grappling with changes to their admissions processes, from weighing whether to reinstate standardized test requirements to assessing the consequences that generative artificial intelligence — like ChatGPT — have on students’ applications. To confront those issues, Duke University is no longer scoring applicants’ essays or standardized test scores in its admissions […]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday avoided another contentious debate over race and education by turning away a challenge to an admissions policy aimed at encouraging diversity at a Virginia high school. The high court’s decision not to intervene in the case comes just months after the conservative court ended the consideration of race […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to punt on a case about the admissions policy at a selective public high school in Northern Virginia that had the potential to further dismantle the reach of affirmative action in education. The justices who declined to add the case to their docket did not provide a reason for […]
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined a chance to further restrict efforts to promote diversity in education, turning away an appeal by a coalition of parents and students who argued that an elite Virginia public school’s revised admissions policy racially discriminates against Asian Americans. The justices left in place a […]
It’s hard to admit when you’ve made a mistake. And it’s rare for a mea culpa to come from the world of education. Yet, that’s what Dartmouth did this week. Sort of. The Ivy League college announced that it is bringing back a standardized testing requirement for undergraduate admissions, starting with the Class of 2029, […]