By Jarrett Carter. If higher education as a business model is collapsing under the weight of weakening public support, fewer students seeking the product and rising costs for workforce and capital maintenance, one institution believes it has the answer to saving students time, money and the industry at large. More...

By Evarist Bartolo. Companies are often faced with recruitment difficulties. The most common source for recruitment is by word of mouth followed by notification to Jobsplus (formerly the ETC) and social media. Out of all vacancies that are hard to fill, clerical support workers (22.2% of all hard-to-fill vacancies) and service and sales workers (15.3%) account for the highest absolute number of hard-to-fill vacancies. A recent survey shows that the primary reason for hard-to-fill vacancies was the lack of applicants with the required skills (56.2%) as well as a lack of personality or attitude. Employers give considerable importance to oral communication skills; team working skills; English language and customer handling skills. More...

By Sanjena Sathian. Yuki Sato, on paper, has achieved the dream. He is a student at Waseda University, one of the top colleges in Japan, studying political science. Which means he successfully survived the rite of passage that looms large over all Japanese adolescents: the wild hustle to get into a good college. More...

To ensure only quality institutions from India enter into foreign collaborations, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has said only universities with Grade A accreditation can get into such tie-ups.
The commission put forth this new criterion through a fresh set of guidelines titled, The University Grants Commission (Promotion and Maintenance of Standards of Academic Collaboration between Indian and Foreign Educational lnstitutions) Regulations, 2016. It also decided to do away with the 2012 guidelines that allowed universities with Grade B and lesser accreditations to get into such collaborations. More...

Dutch students who want to study abroad often find it too complicated or expensive or their courses don’t allow it, according to research by the two big student organisations
Read more at DutchNews.nl: Studying abroad can be complicated and expensive, say Dutch students. More...

THEY take a whole load of brainpower and several years of study, but a new report reveals a series of top science university degrees could leave you jobless.
Science and IT are the courses business people and politicians tell students to study, but they just might be blinding them with science. More...

Manipal University has bagged the prestigious Capacity Building project in Higher Education offered by the European Union under the Erasmus Plus programme.
A press release issued by the university here on Friday said that the three-year project carries a grant of € 564178 (about Rs. 4 crore) to develop a Centre for Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), a teaching-learning methodology in schools to address issues related to multilingualism. More...

Under the program to be carried out in collaboration between three European and four Vietnamese medical universities, European researchers will support creating the first doctoral program in medicine in Vietnam, spokespeople for the University of Tartu said.

By Jon Richards. From tuition fees and accommodation to insurance, books and equipment, the financial requirements of any UAE university student can run into hundreds of thousands of dirhams. While UAE citizens can attend government institutions free of charge – including UAE University, Zayed University and Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) – international students often shoulder a substantial cost. More...

By C Raj Kumar. The newly-appointed Union minister for human resource development, Prakash Javadekar, has a number of issues to address for revamping the higher education sector. On February 29, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley announced in his budget speech that an “enabling regulatory architecture will be provided to 10 public and 10 private institutions to emerge as world-class teaching and research institutions”. More...