Is it time to abolish college grades entirely? Why American universities are handing out too many A’s
09 Sep
Lifestyle

Is it time to abolish college grades entirely? Why American universities are handing out too many A’s

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Lifestyle Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust.Getting out of hand: Grade inflation in American universities is a real problem, but hardly anything has been done to address it. The statistics are staggering. The average GPA at elite schools like Harvard has skyrocketed from 2.6 in 1950 to 3.8 today. In 2023, a mindblowing 80 percent of all grades at Yale were either A or A-. A Wall Street Journal op-ed by German-American political scientist and author Yascha Mounk argues the core issue is that universities increasingly view students as "prized customers," thanks to forever-rising tuition costs. So they cater to their demands and lifestyles. Giving out a bunch of As is an easy way to satisfy the clientele.Additionally, Mounk suggests some professors have grown uncomfortable wielding authority...
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How the Idea of the College Campus Captured American Imaginations—And Politics
04 Sep
Politics

How the Idea of the College Campus Captured American Imaginations—And Politics

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Politics tamfitronics This week, students will return to campuses across the country. And the rest of the nation will be watching. With a presidential election looming and a destructive war waged by one of the country’s closest foreign allies ongoing, much attention will be paid this fall to college campuses, to protest encampments and campus speakers, to the excesses and enthusiasms of college sophomores. Which raises the question of why? Why the obsession with what goes on at a handful of college campuses, often framed in terms of “campus culture wars”?The terms of our fixation are peculiar. Is there really one culture that characterizes several thousand campuses—community colleges, liberal arts colleges, research universities, for-profit universities, and so on—or even just a significant swath of them? The historian Samuel Catlin put it even more bluntly in...
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Kwara college graduates 5,000 health workers in maiden convocation
20 Aug
Science & Technology

Kwara college graduates 5,000 health workers in maiden convocation

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Technology tamfitronics The Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, will on Saturday graduate 5,000 students at its maiden convocation ceremony.The provost of the institution, Aliyu Alabi, made this known at a pre-convocation news conference on Tuesday in Ilorin.He said the convocation will be a combined one, as it will include graduates from the institution who finished five years ago.He explained that the college was established in 1976, adding that due to its peculiarity, graduation of students used to be a departmental affair.Mr Alabi pointed out that the state government embarked on reorganisation, reformation and rebranding crusade of the college, which did not only affect the college’s physical infrastructure but also its staff development.He said the reorganisation included training and re-training, which also involved inculcating discipline in the students.The provost said some of the achievements...
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Taraba College staff send SOS to Gov Kefas over unpaid remunerations
02 Jul
Science & Technology

Taraba College staff send SOS to Gov Kefas over unpaid remunerations

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Technology tamfitronics Some staff of the Taraba State College of Agriculture, Science and Technology have pleaded with the state governor, Agbu Kefas, to come to their rescue by commencing the payment of their long-overdue monthly remuneration.The staff, who claimed they were employed in 2022, said they have not been remunerated once since their employment nearly two years ago.Pleading for anonymity, the disturbed staff, who spoke with our reporter on Tuesday in Jalingo, the state capital, expressed their frustration and depression over the non-payment of their salaries since joining the institution.Emphasizing that they are not protesting, but seeking the governor’s intervention, they highlighted how the situation has been affecting their family members negatively.The staff, who did not blame the governor for their predicament, are optimistic that if the call gets to his table, he will reach...
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