By Lidar Grave-Lazi. Across the board budget cuts for all ministries in the wake of Operation Protective Edge saw the Education Ministry part with some NIS 500 million. More...
By Katina Curtis. Nationals MPs are quietly lobbying Education Minister Christopher Pyne in a bid to ensure regional universities get a fair deal under his higher education reforms.
The move comes as billionaire MP Clive Palmer wrote to the minister outlining the Palmer United Party's opposition to his plans.
Labor has accused rural and regional government MPs of selling out their electorates by passing the universities legislation through the lower house. But several of them are working behind the scenes to try and get a better deal.
By Eugene Sebastian. Governments in Asia are spending big on science, technology and innovation to drive their economies. These governments also recognise that investing in system reforms alone is not enough. Spending on having programmes that help strengthen links is also important. By Richard Holmes. The number of international university rankings continues to increase. They fulfil several roles. Students and their parents, potential employers and sponsors need to have some idea of the quality of the places where they spend time and money. Read more...By Martin Cohen. How would the great Scottish economist, Adam Smith – professor in his time at Glasgow, today one of the hotbeds for independence – vote on Sunday? I think the answer is an unambiguous 'no'.By Laura E Rumbley and Philip G Altbach. Analysis of higher education internationalisation has typically gone in two directions.By William Patrick Leonard. Leaders at many of the United States' tuition dependent institutions are facing unprecedented financial challenges. Without large endowments and-or ever-larger state appropriations, their institutions must now depend on tuition fee income as the primary revenue source offsetting operating costs. Read more...By Kirk Perris. The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, or IIT-K, and the Commonwealth of Learning in Vancouver have teamed up again to offer a novel MOOC that is focused on the design of the course itself. Entitled “MOOC on MOOCs: What you need to know about massive open online courses”, it is aimed at addressing the nuts and bolts of designing and running a MOOC. Read more...By Peta Lee. The Russian Federation has the highest percentage of adults with tertiary education among all OECD countries – 53% against an OECD average of 32% – according to Education at a Glance 2014. But there is a contradiction between the federation’s education levels and the mean literacy of its population. Read more...By Wachira Kigotho. Investing in higher education in the 34 country members of the OECD is being rewarded with good returns. Despite slow recovery from the financial crisis, on average 80% of tertiary-educated people are employed compared to less than 60% of people with below upper secondary education. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
