institutions

A new initiative calls on colleges and universities to ask and answer the question, “Are students learning?” at their institutions.

It’s a question that employers ask about college graduates all the time.

An agreement among almost all of the European Union members was made in Brussels today, but Britain has decided to stay out of the plan, and insists that official EU institutions do as well.

As the battle is joined over fees, the big banks want to make you pay, and the most aggressive of the little institutions want to pay you.

Grants from the MasterCard and Cisco foundations will help Grameen improve and expand its Mifos platform as a technology standard for high-growth, mid-size microfinance institutions across the world....

A growing number of European cultural institutions are following the lead of their American counterparts and relying more on private donations to help fund special projects and their day-to-day operations....

The number of institutions on the government's so-called "problem bank" list surpassed 400 in the latest quarter, climbing to its highest level in 15 years, according to a government report published Thursday.

More than a dozen major cultural institutions are trying to put the brakes on a bill introduced in the New York State Legislature to regulate the deaccessioning of collections.

The report from the American Enterprise Institute found that at the least competitive institutions the average six-year graduation rate was 35 percent, compared to 88 percent at the most competitive institutions....

Supreme Court nomination battles often give rise to big advertising and lots of cable chatter. As Steve Henn reports, that may be because some institutions have a big interest in egging on the fight.

The foundation has awarded twenty grants of $100,000 each to organizations providing human services in Massachusetts and has launched an initiative designed to underwrite the cost of admission to specific cultural institutions in the state....