Harvard in biggest curriculum overhaul in 30 years
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Harvard University announced on Wednesday its biggest curriculum overhaul in three decades, putting new emphasis on sensitive religious and cultural issues, the sciences and overcoming U.S. "parochialism."
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Slimmed-down curriculum would give teachers greater freedom, says exam watchdog head.
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Harvard, Oxford and others also will go online in the first deal of its kind. By Nick Bunkley / The Detroit News. By the end of the decade, anyone around the world will have instant access to 7 million volumes
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Harvard University announced yesterday a series of breaks for middle-income students, increasing financial aid enough to effectively slash costs by as much as 50 percent and eliminating required student loans.
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It wasn't quite "Friday Night Lights," but Harvard delivered a lights-out "Saturday Night Live" performance in staging its first night football game in the 104-year history of venerable Harvard Stadium.
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Harvard University, in one of its largest technology transfer deals ever, is set to disclose today that it has licensed a portfolio of more than 50 nanotechnology patents to a Cambridge start-up that is working with manufacturers and the Pentagon to commercialize the technology.
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The high school class of 2006 got stuck with a new, longer version of the SAT and didn't fare well on it. Average reading and math scores fell a total of seven points &#151; the sharpest decline in 31 years.
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Changes to schools in Carmarthenshire are set to be revealed as part of a major modernisation programme.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  - Harvard University students:  overachieving, bookish bores or repressed party animals? A  little of both, it seems.
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BBC education correspondent Mike Baker on the changes happening in the new school year.
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The nation's students have performed significantly better on state reading and math tests since President Bush signed his landmark education initiative into law five years ago, according to a major independent study released yesterday.
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MIT students transformed the statue of John Harvard in Harvard Yard into the Master Chief character from Halo 3.
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Controversial statements by Harvard's president have added fuel to a debate that scientists say has no definitive answers.
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PM Tony Blair sets out major changes to post-GCSE
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Harvard University will likely appoint its first female president this weekend, ending a one-year search for a new leader at America's oldest university, the student newspaper reported on Friday.
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Oxford and Cambridge universities are to overhaul their undergraduate recruitment strategies
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For the second straight year, Harvard and Princeton universities share the top spot in the US News &amp; World Report rankings of &quot;America&#39;s Best Colleges.&quot; ...