By The PIE News team. Flywire has announced a new program it says will help students from India pay their tuition fees to global universities efficiently. More...
ALTO Day Berlin spotlights importance of “improving behaviours to become better leaders”
By The PIE News team. Behavioural fitness, habit-hacking, and the importance of “mindware training” were some key areas up for discussion as part of ALTO Day Berlin 2018. More...
2018: A year in IntlEd with the PIE News
By The PIE News team. With 2019 just around the corner, here’s a look back at this year, and some of the stories which have grabbed our attention and yours. More...
51Talk looks to hire 100k Filipino teachers
By The PIE News team. Online English-teaching platform 51Talk, which is aimed at the Chinese market, has announced it is looking to hire 100,000 Filipinos in the next five years to meet growing demand. 51Talk currently employs 18,000 online English teachers of which 16,000 are Filipino. More...
A new tech bloom – Edtech from enrolment to employment
By The PIE News team. Using virtual reality goggles, Crawford’s company, InitialView, gave 360-degree virtual tours of three American universities — Northwestern, Vanderbilt, and Washington University in St. Louis — to hundreds of prospective Chinese families. More...
France compétences succède aux FPSPP, Copanef et Cnefop
IREG Observatory speakers at THE conference in Doha, Qatar
Luiz Claudio Costa, President of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence will be a distinguished speaker at the THE Conference Building university impact through resilience and innovation to be held in Doha, Qatar, 16-17 January 2019. Among the speakers will be also rectors of universities that are members of IREG Observatory; Hassan Al - Derham, President of Qatar University (the host of the THE conference), Mikhail Strikhanov, Rector of National Research Nuclear University MEPhI and Konstantin Miniar-Beloruchev, Vice-rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University. More...
GreenMetric Ranking: European Universities Leading for Sustainability
The latest edition of the UI GreenMetric World University Rankings was announced on December 19th. These rankings are published by Universitas Indonesia and are based on data submitted by 431 universities. The objective of the Greenmetric rankings is to compare the contribution of universities to ecological sustainability. More...
THE Impact Rankings Under Way
Times Higher Education (THE) announced last year that it was developing a new global ranking based on the Sustainable Development Goals issued by the United Nations. Most international university rankings have focussed on research and sometimes on metrics that might be relevant to the quality of teaching and learning. More...
Lithuania should improve legislation, prevent discrimination at school and promote the social inclusion of Roma
The Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities today urged the Lithuanian authorities to adopt a comprehensive legal framework, prevent discrimination against students from minority language schools and address negative stereotypes against Roma. More...