When US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders painted a picture of the perfect model of higher education, he didn’t reference Harvard, Yale or Stanford; instead he cited universities in Germany and Scandinavia. He held up their education systems as ones the US should emulate when pledging to make tuition free at public colleges and universities last […]
A rise in indigenous (aboriginal, equivalent to India’s scheduled castes and tribes) student enrolments in Australia should not obscure the need for “culturally appropriate and continuous support” to improve low completion rates, an academic has cautioned.
Recent federal government figures show that aboriginal and Torres Strait islander enrolments grew 7.6 percent in the first half of […]
The UK leaving the European Union (‘Brexit’) would create “a huge problem” for British universities in new barriers to European research collaboration while damaging higher education across Europe, according to senior officials in German education.
Universities UK (UUK) has been running a campaign to highlight the benefits of membership to the nation’s universities that will gain […]
Is it realistic for an academic programme to set out with the explicit aim of identifying, educating and, crucially, networking future world leaders, as a business school might do for future company chief executives? This is the ambition of Schwarzman Scholars, a new scholarship programme that is backed by American money, based in China and […]
First they came for the statues. Last year students in Cape Town sparked national protests by calling on the University of Cape Town (UCT) to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes, a Victorian imperialist who, like most Englishmen of his time, held racist views. The statue was removed but students were still angry. Many marched […]
In recent years, several top-ranked universities around the world have undertaken institutional collaborations and set up branch campuses. The Middle East and East Asia have been among the most popular destinations for branch campuses designed to create regional bases, drive cross-border flow of students and boost parent institutions’ global reputations.
Nearly three-quarters of academics in the Republic of Ireland say working conditions have deteriorated in the wake of mass job cuts and rising student numbers, says a recent study. Higher education funding shrank by 29 percent between 2007 and 2014, but student numbers have risen by 16 percent over the same period, according to Creating […]
Inside the red-lacquered door of No. 39 Wenhua Lane in central Beijing is an old-style single-storey home built around a small courtyard. Its owner, an elderly man in a vest, sits on an upturned bucket near a jumble of cooking pots; a pile of old cardboard rests atop a nearby shed. Next to the man, […]
More than half of undergraduates believe international students work harder than British students, a new study suggests. About 54 percent of just over 1,000 students polled on behalf of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA) believe that overseas students put more effort into their studies than those from the […]
China has overtaken Japan as Asia’s # 1 nation for producing top universities. While Japan’s University of Tokyo is the highest-placed institution in the Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2015, the country has lost ground overall, with the balance of power now tilting towards mainland China. Japan has 19 universities in the prestigious Top […]
Universities in sub-Saharan Africa must adapt to serve the growing number of students who no longer see their future in conventional salaried employment, says a report on graduate careers in the region. Research commissioned by the British Council indicates that the region’s institutions are still providing rote learning even as graduates’ focus shifts to entrepreneurship […]
Not everyone rolled out the welcome mat for Peter Mathieson, former dean of the faculty of medicine and dentistry at the University of Bristol, when he was nominated vice chancellor of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) two years ago. Chan Yuen-ying, director of HKU’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre, blogged that “if a medical […]
Although this might be news to third world “including India” politicians, enforcement of law and order is a precondition of quality education delivery.
In downtown Medelln “once a global symbol of drug-related violence in the cocaine trade” stands the bright yellow San Ignacio building. Built in 1803, this first campus of the University of Antioquia survived […]
On the desk of Zeus Rodriguez, the president of St. Anthony School in Milwaukee, a mini Republican primary is under way. A signed photograph of Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, competes for space with snaps of Rand Paul and Jeb Bush — all three of them presidential hopefuls. St. Anthony’s is popular among conservatives […]
An Israeli business school claims to offer its international students some of “the secrets behind ‘Jewish genius’ and Israeli success” as a pre-eminent “start-up nation”. Lahav Executive Education, which bills itself “the leading developer and provider of executive education in Israel”, is a unit of the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University, the country’s […]
Millions of Chinese have dreamt of attending Harvard University. Harvard Girl, a how-to manual published in 2000 by the parents of one successful applicant, was a national bestseller. Georgia Institute of Technology, a prestigious university in Atlanta, has enjoyed less name-recognition. Yet this is fast changing: the number of Chinese applicants to Georgia Tech has […]
Higher education companies in Brazil are lobbying the government to rescind new rules on financial aid they fear will stop students from enrolling for privately provided education.
A federal decree quietly published during the Christmas period tightened the criteria for the Student Financing Fund (FIES), one of the federal government’s two key initiatives to support individuals […]
Going into the offices of the National Co-ordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) in Oaxaca, a city 350 km south-east of Mexico’s capital, is like entering a world of rebellious teenagers rather than teachers. Graffiti is scrawled on the walls and posters denounce “state terrorism”. The trade union’s radio station, Radio Planton (Demonstration Radio), rails against […]
“It’s all to do with their brains and bodies and chemicals,” says Sir Anthony Seldon, the master of Wellington College, a posh English boarding school. “There’s a mentality that it’s not cool for them to perform, that it’s not cool to be smart,” suggests Ivan Yip, principal of the Bronx Leadership Academy in New York. […]
THE INDIANA JONES warehouse. That’s where William Pannapacker claims much of the output of students and staff in the liberal arts ends up — in the figurative obscurity represented by the seemingly infinite, but sealed off, government storeroom where the fictional archaeologist’s discovery — the Ark of the Covenant — is placed at the end […]
IN EAST ASIA, history textbooks are barometers of nationalism, and arguments over them are proxies for disputes between states. So it’s hardly surprising — at a time when territorial disagreements are breaking out all round the South China Sea and East China Sea — that the region is witnessing a new chapter in a long-running […]
IN THE UNITED STATES, suspicions about private, for-profit universities’ high cost and dubious quality abound. Elsewhere in the Americas, though, the story is far more positive.
After equally hectic expansion, Brazil’s for-profit institutions have three-quarters of the country’s higher education market — with fees kept low and quality rising fast. And since a degree boosts wages […]
MORE THAN 2,000 YEARS ago, Huangdi Neijing, a classic Chinese medical text, identified obesity as a disease caused by eating too much “fatty meats and polished grains”. Until a generation ago, such a diet was an extravagance beyond imagination for all but the elite. But the Chinese waistline has since expanded, and at an alarming […]
GERMANY, AUSTRIA AND German-speaking Switzerland have an education tradition that sets them apart from most other countries.
Children tend to get out of school at mid-day instead of late afternoon. Secondary schools are divided into three types. The basic one prepares for technical apprenticeships and vocational training. The middle one teaches skills such as book-keeping. And […]
MANY PARENTS who picked up their children from Park View School, Birmingham on June 9 took home something else too: an official report excoriating the school. Ofsted, England’s schools inspector, had downgraded the largely Muslim institution to “inadequate”, saying it has failed to protect children from extremism.
A few months ago, Birmingham City Council received a […]
According to official sources on May 2, a Chinese kindergarten principal and an education official were dismissed over a child sex abuse scandal in northwestern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the latest in a slew of such cases in China.
The principal of a Haojiaqiao township kindergarten in Lingwu City, and the director of security at the […]
OF THE 658 schools in Chicago, only 126 are charter schools — publicly funded but independently run and largely free of union rules. Fifteen more are due to open this year. More notable, though, is that four of the most recently approved charters are in areas where the city recently decided to close 49 public […]
ALMOST ONE IN five of the world’s central bankers has been educated at a UK university, according to a report that stresses the “soft power” that Britain gains from educating the world’s elite. It calls on the government to commission research on how British education affects the UK’s influence globally. It would like to see […]
GOETHE UNIVERSITY Frankfurt, established in 1914 as Frankfurt University, was the creation of a Jewish philanthropist and owed much of its growth to Jewish support and academics. But under the Nazis, a third of its staff and students were forced out. The infamous Nazi scientist Dr. Josef Mengele, known as the ‘Angel of Death’ for […]
THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA has a message for people in other countries who might consider coming to its universities to study: “It’s not all snow and ice here!” At least, that’s one of the messages Canada is sending out on websites and social media networks and in other types of marketing in a relentless bid […]
ACROSS THE RIVER from the congested metropolis of Manaus, nothing but dense green forest lines the banks of the River Negro in the Brazilian Amazon. Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonas and host city to England’s opening match against Italy in the forthcoming Fifa World Cup, is an urban oasis surrounded by more […]
A MOTTO OF PEKING University, one of China’s leading academic institutions, is “freedom of thought and an all-embracing attitude”. But in recent months it was not all-embracing enough to allow Xia Yeliang, an outspoken economics professor, to keep his job. Economics was not the subject on which Xia was most forthright. He was a signatory […]
CHINA’S INFAMOUS UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE exam, known as the gaokao has long been subject to criticism. Admissions are based solely on the points scored in one exam, and the need for rote memorisation does little to foster creative minds. Now Beijing has taken its first tentative steps towards reforming the system.
LAST YEAR WAS NOT A VINTAGE YEAR FOR the university of Central Lancashire’s attempts to gain a foothold in overseas markets. In November it emerged that it will lose up to £3.2 million (Rs.32 crore) in the collapse of its planned Thailand campus. The university set up a joint venture company with the president of […]
UNIVERSITY GRADUATES IN NORTHERN Sri Lanka, which is recovering from decades of civil war, are looking at a sparse employment landscape with few opportunities on offer. “Those from the north face a much more difficult time than those from elsewhere in the country. New jobs are very difficult to find,” Rupavathi Keetheswaran, government agent for […]
SCHOOL IN THE TYPHOON-AFFECTED areas of the Republic of Philippines (pop. 97 million) are slowly reopening and thousands of students are resuming classes after the category 5 storm struck the island nation last November. Millions of children have had their education disrupted due to school buildings being severely damaged or used as shelters for survivors […]
YASMIN WAS AT HOME AFTER A DAY AT work at Al-Baath University in Homs, Syria, when she heard that one of her students had been shot and killed. Yasmin’s life had been dominated by Syria’s civil war since unrest began in 2011. Syria’s higher education system is in meltdown. Students and academics have fled the […]
As more people around the world start to study Mandarin, China’s education ministry has revealed that much work still needs to be done teaching the language at home. Last month it announced that 400 million Chinese, nearly a third of the population, are unable to communicate in Mandarin, and that many more cannot speak it […]
At a time when you might have expected to hear the youth of Brazil chanting about the nation’s football team, they called out “vem pra rua” — “come to the street” — an invitation to protest against corruption, police aggression and poor public services. At the peak of the Confederations Cup competition in June, a […]
Just months after Quebec had at last emerged from waves of violent student protests over higher education funding, the prospect of another divisive row looms after the provincial government announced plans that would force secularisation on staff working in higher education. The separatist government of Pauline Marois — whose election as premier last year finally […]
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