Von Esther Göbel. Vom Zielfahnder zum Verwalter, von der Büroleiterin zur Tippse: Millionen Arbeitsnehmer in Deutschland sind überqualifiziert. Wie kann das sein?
Wenn Markus von seinem alten Job erzählt, werden seine Sätze nebulös, er muss dann viel erklären, oft um den eigentlichen Kern herumreden, weiter ausholen, umschreiben statt konkret benennen. Erklär´ mal jemandem, was ein Zielfahnder der Bundeswehr nach dem Bosnien-Krieg auf dem Balkan gemacht hat! Naja, Kriegsverbrecher gesucht, sagt Markus dann, aber Details darf er nicht verraten. Geheim. Mehr...

Japan will offer crucial support to Africa’s development efforts with the aim of enabling the African continent to nurture cutting-edge science and technology innovations, Japanese and Kenyan officials have said. Addressing participants at a symposium on Higher Education in Nairobi recently ahead of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI), Japanese ambassador to Kenya, Mr. Toshitsugu Uesawa, said TICAD VI summit to be held late this month in the Kenyan capital “will be a spring board” for Africa’s development agenda. More...

Vietnam has announced a bold new higher education reform agenda. The government of Vietnam will offer up to 10,000 government scholarships for overseas doctoral study between 2014 and 2020 (or 1,300–1,500 per year) to tertiary and research institute staff. The so-called 911 Project will also offer scholarships to qualified non-academic professionals committed to tertiary. More...

By Foutoun Hajjar. In an ongoing bid to promote a shift from an oil to a knowledge based economy, it is not surprising that education was targeted as a key area of importance within the Bahraini Vision 2030. The Kingdom is working to raise standards and performance in its schools, vocational institutions and universities through casting a lens on the regions education system, and measuring its relative successes against the backdrop of an increasingly competitive global market. More...

A day after the former Vice-Chancellors of KSOU, K.S. Rangappa and M.G. Krishnan, were booked for alleged irregularities in the university during their tenures, Higher Education Minister Basavaraj Rayaraddi has said action would be taken against heads of three other universities. More...

Thousands of meritorious students are going to face admission war this year again after getting their HSC result.
A total 74.70 percent student passed this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations across the country which is 5.1 percentage points higher than that of previous year. More...

By Ksenia Smertina. The dismissal of Russia’s Education Minister, Dmitry Livanov, and his replacement with Olga Vasilyeva, an official who worked in Russia’s Presidential Administration, indicates that Russia’s educational system still is in need of reform. Indeed, there are few people who pass up the opportunity to criticize the country’s educational system; however, it’s important to see that criticism and dissatisfaction as a reflection of the deep-seated problems of Russian society itself. More...

By Mark Wilding. The road to Nottingham University is lined with palm trees. Behind the trees, across a carefully manicured lawn and an ornamental lake, sits the university's gleaming white campus headquarters. On the other side of the road is a series of newly constructed luxury apartments, built to house the university's students, set against the backdrop of a brilliant blue sky. If this all sounds a long way from the East Midlands, that's because it is. More...

By Calestous Juma. Four of the highest recipients of Olympics medals are also permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. The US, UK, Russia and China rank on top not necessarily because they’re superpowers, but because they field competitors in nearly every sport.
By winning five medals in taekwondo, African countries demonstrated they too can diversify into new sports and excel. More...

By Rahul Choudaha and Di Hu. American universities and colleges enrolled 350,000 more international students in 2014/15 as compared to 2007/08, indicating strong attractiveness of U.S. higher education institutions among globally mobile students. During the period of seven years since the beginning of the global financial recession, the number of international students in the U.S. increased by 56% to reach nearly 975,000 students. However, the international student enrollment at ten leading public research universities has grown much faster, at a rate of 74% ,reaching nearly 90,000 international students in the same period. More...