By Andrew Kreighbaum. A. Wayne Johnson will step down as chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid after just seven months on the job. But the Department of Education insists the change in leadership doesn't signal a wavering commitment to ambitious projects -- including a mobile app and prepaid card for federal student aid accounts and a restructuring of federal loan servicing contracts. More...
By Mariam Yevdokimova. On 29 November 2017, the President of the Republic of Armenia signed the new law on ‘military duty and military service’, which states that to get a military draft deferment, all male students must sign contracts with the Armenian ministry of defence and must agree to serve in the military for three years after completing their undergraduate studies. More...By Stephen Coan. The Africa Evidence Network at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, recently launched the first annual Africa Evidence Leadership Award to honour and recognise those who have increased awareness of evidence-informed decision-making in Africa. More...By Frances Tsakonas. The university model has been stuck in limbo for centuries. Little has changed in terms of the university framework since the first university in the Western world, the University of Bologna, opened its doors in 1088, let alone the first continuously-operating degree-granting universities of Al-Karaouine in Morocco (859 AD), Al-Azhar in Egypt (970-972 AD) and Nizamiyya in Iraq (1065). More...By Eric Fredua-Kwarteng and Samuel Kwaku Ofosu. For the past 20 years or so African higher education institutions have been experiencing explosive enrolment growth rates while funding has drastically declined. The statistics are staggering. For instance, according to the literature, from 1999 to 2012 enrolment shot up by 170%; that is, from 3.5 million students to 9.54 million students. Explosive university enrolment is a continent-wide phenomenon. More...By Jane Knight. The term ‘knowledge diplomacy’ is becoming increasingly popular and is being used in different ways. This is causing some confusion. More...By Jonathan Nicholls. With plans afoot for the United Kingdom government to review higher education funding, speculation is growing about the recommendations that might result. Could discounted or otherwise incentivised courses be the answer. More...By Anamika Srivastava. The debate around developing ‘world-class universities’ in India often involves benchmarking top Indian universities against the best in the world, which are generally regarded to be Anglo-American universities. However, in recent years, Asia has emerged as a breeding ground for some of the world’s top universities. More...By Francis Kokutse. Some investors in private universities are cutting corners by not maintaining quality assurance levels, short-circuiting official quality assurance bodies and procedures and generally giving a bad name to the sector. But there are exceptions, according to the acting chairman of Ghana's Council of Independent Universities. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
