Government pledge to help boost postgraduate demand
By Nic Mitchell. As demand for full-time English undergraduate education continues to confound the prophets of doom by going up this year – despite the near three-fold increase in tuition fees – concern is mounting at falling applications for postgraduate courses, especially from British students. More...
Students – Aspiring for a better world
By Junya Ogasawara. Our society is becoming more connected and complicated every day in this era of globalisation, and every country faces so-called global issues such as poverty, human rights, and educational or environment problems, whether directly or indirectly. More...
Challenges, opportunities for Korean student mobility
By Matthew Zingraff and Anne Schiller. International student mobility is on the rise. East Asian students are particularly mobile, and the number electing to remain within the region is growing. Regional education hubs are a means to compete for internationally mobile students. More...
Women do well in academia, but are not yet equal
By Gulsun Saglamer. The European Commission’s She Figures, which present statistics on gender equality in science, show that women stand less chance of reaching senior levels in higher education and research institutions and also of holding positions of influence through membership of scientific boards. More...
Toyoshi Satow – The new face of global higher education
By Yojana Sharma. Chancellor of JF Oberlin University in Tokyo Dr Toyoshi Satow took over the three-year presidency of the International Association of University Presidents at its 2014 conference held in Yokohama in Japan. He outlined his vision for the IAUP, known as the ‘global voice of higher education’. More...
Technology will create higher education’s future – IAUP
By Suvendrini Kakuchi. The development of innovation and technology in higher education to meet the world’s rapidly changing needs emerged as the main focus of higher education leaders who gathered in Japan’s port city of Yokohama for the conference of the International Association of University Presidents, or IAUP. More...
Higher education can help liberate women worldwide – Report
By Wachira Kigotho. Higher education has the capacity to become a major liberating force against an epidemic of gender-based violence and systemic poverty, says a key World Bank report that sheds new light on social and economic constraints facing women and girls worldwide.
The May report, Voice and Agency: Empowering women and girls for shared prosperity, distils vast data from 128 countries and provides a view on how higher education could reduce the deprivations that prevent women from achieving their potential. More...
Universities will not charge fees for non-Europeans
By Jan Petter Myklebust. The pilot project in which nine Finnish universities and 10 polytechnics charged tuition fees from some non-European masters students closes at the end of this year. But already most of the institutions have announced that they will not claim fees from students admitted this coming autumn. More...
Rule opens higher education to foreign universities
By Mushfique Wadud. After considerable delay, Bangladesh’s Education Ministry has finally formulated a rule that allows foreign universities, branch campuses or study centres to operate academic activities in the country, fulfilling a long-standing demand by local representatives of foreign universities and some students. More...
Major reform as 600 universities become polytechnics
By Yojana Sharma. In a bid to reduce the huge number of university graduates with similar academic degrees competing with each other for the same jobs, China has announced that it will turn at least half of its public universities into institutions of applied learning or polytechnics to produce more technically trained graduates. More...
