By Douglas Quan. As a toddler, Nick Sousanis’ first word was Batman. In high school, he produced and sold his own comic book called Lockerman. 
Then reality set in. At university, he traded in his pencils for a calculator and studied math. After all, who studies comics at university? But a career in numbers just didn’t compute. More...

By Brajesh Kumar. Jodhpur scholar Poonam Sharma often craved to meet international experts in nanomaterial synthesis after studying their research papers. 
So, when Prof Timothy Fisher from Purdue University in the US, whose work in the field is well known, arrived at her institute under the HRD ministry’s Global Initiative for Academic Network (GIAN) programme on a week-long lecture tour, the chemistry PhD student was ecstatic. More...

By Andy Eckardt and Carlo Angerer.  The number of Americans studying in Germany has risen sharply, recent figures show, driven in part by the low cost of higher education compared to the United States.
More than 10,000 U.S. students are presently enrolled in the country's higher education programs, according to data from the Institute for International Education. It's an increase of almost 9 percent compared to the previous academic year, and 25 percent more than in 2008-2009. More...

By Shilpa Baburaj. The IIM-Bangalore's tie-up with edX platform to offer students world-class education free of cost has many takers from foreign countries. Almost 65% of enrolments are international students while the rest are Indians. Of the 90,000 to 1 lakh foreign learners, 15% are from the US, 3% from Europe and 1.2% from African nations. The Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allows students to sit in the comfort of their homes and attend classes of faculty at top universities worldwide. More...

By Kelly Mae Ross. International students are offered the same low public university tuition rates as French students.
Lina Agabani Puch thought she was prepared for her first lecture as a new undergraduate at the Université Paris-Sorbonne​ in France. But the international student from Saudi Arabia​  couldn't keep up with the professor's fast-paced French. "Everyone around me, they’re just typing away and I don’t understand anything," she says. More...

By Daily Trust. Last week, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) Senator Binta Masi Garba said this country spends over $2 billion annually to finance students’ education abroad. Some might see this as testimony to Nigerian parents’ love for education but it is more accurately a testimony to national waste, profligacy and misplacement of priorities. More...

By Abby Schultz. Universities have banked on a steady influx of wealthy Chinese students ever since enrollment numbers began rising about eight years ago. 
But many are bracing for change as China’s slowing economy and devalued currency hits personal income, and as universities within China improve and attract more students. More...

By Lesley Walker. In an effort to promote the use of Arabic more widely in Qatar, the state Cabinet yesterday approved a draft law that would require all ministries, official organizations and public schools and universities to use the language in all their communications.
Only a few details of the provisions of the new law on the “protection of the Arabic language” have so far been released. More...

By Vikram Nehru. By most measures, Indonesia is among the world’s largest countries. It's the largest archipelagic country, the third largest democracy, the largest Muslim nation and the eighth largest economy. What’s more, over the last half century, its economic performance has been among the best in Asia, and its economy has proved resilient to shocks. More...

By Eryk Bagshaw. Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham will direct the nation's top education panel to focus on university admissions after a Fairfax Media investigation revealed that the practice of admitting students with lower than the minimum ATAR into university courses was endemic. More...