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U.S. Online Education Site Coursera Expands Russian Reach
By Diana Kulchitskaya. Coursera, a U.S.-based online education site, plans to reach its already thriving Russian audience by translating its material into Russian.
The California-based firm, which has 5 million registered users, is cooperating with the Russian company ABBYY Language Services, which will use crowdsourcing to translate the courses. More...
Quinn confident universities will agree to cut in fees
By Rachel Flaherty. For the first time since 2011, funding for repairs and improvements announced for schools. Minister of Education Ruairí Quinn says he is confident universities will agree to his plan to drastically lower third-level fees for children of Irish emigrant families living outside of the European Union. More...
Not black and white - Asians object to affirmative action
THE 80-20 Initiative, an Asian-American lobby group, scored its first big success last October when it forced Jimmy Kimmel, a television host, to apologise for allowing a five-year-old boy to suggest on air that America should kill everyone in China in order to avoid its debt obligations. This week the group pulled off a more edifying win, defeating an attempt to allow Californian universities to take account of race when deciding whom to admit. Read more...
Gap between poor and non-poor in universities widening
Emerging international HE themes and the looming end of Western dominance
In Commentary, Simon Marginson contends that the West’s domination of global higher education is coming to an end more rapidly than many realise, as Asia’s massive investment in the sector begins to pay off. Read more...