By . CHINA has the largest number of college students anywhere in the world, while one fifth of the world’s college student population live in the country, said a report by its Ministry of Education yesterday. 
Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday asked all the State-run universities to apply for international rankings. According to a GO issued here by the State government stated that the Andhra University had applied for and got rankings in QS International Ranking and the Times Higher Education Ranking 2015. More...
The current state of some American institutions of higher learning, flush with debates about trigger warnings, sexual assault and affirmative action, have left some critics wondering whether college students have time to learn anything anymore. More...
By Choi Sung. Recently, there has been a big change in North Korea’s educational landscape: North Korea has either newly built or expanded hundreds of college and school buildings and scaled up distant learning (e.g. online courses and classes) infrastructure. In North Korea, distant learning has increased annually: 1,280 North Korean companies provided online lectures in 2015; North Korea’s first virtual college last year produced its first batch of graduates. More...
By . The move comes in the wake of a Parliamentary Budget Office report this week revealing the government's student loan scheme could involve up to $180 billion by 2025. More...
Summer's almost here, and Embassies and Consulates of USA, UK, Germany and the like are gearing up for an influx of student visa applications, especially for post-graduate programmes. Not surprising, since India is the second largest exporter of international students. More...
By . The annual burden placed on the budget by Australia's student loans program is expected to dramatically increase over the next decade, thanks to the coalition government’s policy to allow universities to regulate their own fees, a new report released on Wednesday has shown. More...
Arbeitgeberboss Volker Fasbender spricht Klartext: "Wir bilden immer mehr Akademiker aus, deren vorwiegend theoretische Kompetenz wir auf dem Arbeitmarkt nicht in gleichem Umfang brauchen “, wetterte der Hauptgeschäftsführer der Vereinigung hessischer Unternehmerverbände (VhU) bei der Vorstellung der VhU-Studie „Fachkräfte für die Industrie 4.0 – für eine Neuorientierung im Bildungssystem“. Das berichtet die „Wirtschaftswoche“ online. Mehr...
By Abby Jackson. College startup Minerva Schools, whose students explore up to seven cities during four years of study, has received 16,000 applications for 306 available places this year, the Financial Times reported.
That acceptance rate for the unconventional college, at 1.9%, is far lower than at any schools in the Ivy League, as well as at Stanford. More...
By Rebecca Rajaendram. FOREIGN students wishing to study in Malaysia can now apply online for their student pass. 
