Higher education has become the latest battlefield in the polarising campaign among Republicans vying to challenge Barack Obama after one candidate branded the president “a snob” for suggesting that more Americans should go to university.
“There are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to the […]
The Chinese government’s budget for basic research is set to increase by more than 25 percent this year, according to Science magazine’s Science Insider website. A draft budget published last week pledges more than 32 billion yuan (Rs.25,600 crore) for basic research in 2012. This represents a 26 percent increase on last year’s budget.
Two UK institutions have dropped out of Times Higher Education’s academic prestige Top 100 in the face of increased competition from Asia and mainland Europe. Harvard University tops the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, published on March 15, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge — an unchanged top […]
In the run-up to the french presidential elections, the Socialist Party is insisting it will not backtrack on the current government’s controversial overhaul of higher education. Instead the party promises more funds for academia as investment in “economic development”.
But despite widespread belief that substantially increased tuition fees are on the agenda for the next government […]
In November, 600,000 Colombian students walked out of lectures in protest at what they saw as the increasing privatisation of higher education in the country. Their action prompted the government to back down from plans to reform Law 30, enacted in 1992, which among other things accords higher education in the country the status of […]
Giving a child a computer does not seem to turn him or her into a future Bill Gates — indeed it does not accomplish anything in particular. That is the conclusion from Peru (pop.29 million), epicentre of the largest single programme involving One Laptop per Child, an American charity with backers from the computer industry […]
A member of the Afghan parliament is attempting to level the playing field to ensure that female students from the country’s more remote and unstable provinces have the same access to higher education as their urban-educated peers.
Mujeeb u-Rehman Chamkani, an MP for Paktia, a remote, mountainous and unsettled province in southeast Afghanistan, is pressuring the […]
A proposal to sanction the use of indigenous languages in primary schools in polyglot Timor-Leste (East Timor) has divided members of government, civil society and educators, raising questions about how language can spur harmony — or discord — in the young nation. The ‘mother-tongue’ programme is spearheaded by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural […]
Protesters clashed with police in London on December 9 after the Tory-LibDem coalition won a vote to increase tuition fees for university students in England to up to £9,000 (Rs.6.37 lakh) per year. The proposal faced bitter criticism not only from Labour MPs but from LibDem and Tory backbenchers, but the motion was carried by […]
School-leaving examination stress and the scramble to make it into the countrys much-too-few excellent colleges is not a peculiarly Indian phenomenon. For millions of Chinese teenagers awaiting the outcome of their final high school exams, known as the gaokao (literally high-test) for university entrance, written in June, papers are as tough and stakes as high. […]
Over the past few years, a growing number of America’s parentless children have found homes. In 2008 there were 463,000 children in foster care, a system where the government places orphans and children with parents who are abusive or unable to take care of them, in the care of guardians. That is 11 percent down […]
There is a joke at Harvard University that the only things older than the fossils in its Museum of Natural History are the scholars in its classrooms. Tenured faculty are not required to retire, and at least 180 Harvard professors — including nearly 20 percent of those who teach undergraduates — are over 65.
A new report by the UN Childrens Fund (Unicef) says most children in Bangladesh are subject to physical abuse at school, at home or where they work. The study entitled Opinions of Children of Bangladesh on Corporal Punishment covered nearly 4,000 families and was published on October 8.In all regards, the children of Bangladesh are […]
Since the Labour Party came to power in 1997 proclaiming education its priority, one grand policy after another has foundered. Schools were told to run themselves — but forbidden to do the things that matter most, such as paying good teachers more. Parents were encouraged to choose schools — but with too few attractive ones […]
When European education ministers met in Bologna in 1999 and promised to forge a common market for universities within a decade, it seemed mere Euro-rhetoric. Big obstacles stopped students nipping abroad for a term, or getting degrees recognised. Many countries offered no degree below Masters level. Some examined course modules separately, others all in one […]
“They (Taliban) are savages and we’re like a helpless herd, with no one to protect us,” says Sikander Ali, father of four girls, speaking to IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks) over the phone from Pakistan’s Swat valley. Ali was reacting to news that militants had ordered a ban on girls’ education from January 15. Swat […]
France may think of itself as a literary society, but real prestige is reserved for mathematics. Excellence in maths determines access to the elite, via ultra-selective grandes ecoles such as the Ecole Nationale d’Administration or the Polytechnique.
More French mathematicians have won the Fields Medal, a top international prize, than from any other European country. Top maths […]
Rachad arrived from morocco two years ago. He supports Milan (“of course”) and wants to be an electrician, like his father. Manpreet is a Punjabi Sikh, who followed her lorry-driver father here five years ago. Her ambition is rather different — she wants to become president of India. Adama, from Senegal, is the shyest. At […]
Russian universities will keep their own system of entrance exams when the country introduces its long-delayed unified state exam, a nationwide scheme similar to A levels. Years of lobbying by rectors of top universities to halt a common school-leaving / university entrance exam seems to have paid off after the education ministry announced a […]
Fifty leading private schools were found guilty last November of running an illegal price-fixing cartel, which investigators said allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) published provisional findings showing that the schools, which include Eton and Harrow, exchanged detailed financial information in a regular report […]
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