As college seniors look at the current state of the job market, an increasing number are applying to graduate schools. As if this alone doesn't make the process more competitive, consider that as the school budgets get tighter, the number of available spaces often becomes smaller.

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a great article on page A31 about female engineering professors, or perhaps the lack of them. (Nationwide, about 12 percent of engineering faculty are female.) The article offers some good insight into the issue from 2 female engineering professors and should be a must read for anyone considering engineering as a profession.

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Boston.com has an article on how Associate Professor Nonie Lesaux and her research group at Harvard are presenting their research on keys to child education on February 17th for the Needham Education Foundation.

The New York Times had a great article over the weekend about impact the recession is having on the volume of GRE test takers and grad school applicants.

The article repeats ETS claims that the number of Americans who took the Graduate Record Examination in 2009 rose 13 percent, to a record 670,000.