By Natalie Marsh. The number of international students studying in New Zealand is back on an incline and in fact, 2014 full year figures hit a 10-year high, according to newly released statistics. More...
28 juin 2015
28 juin 2015
StudyPortals expands further into Asian market
By Natalie Marsh. StudyPortals is taking a step towards its goal of global transparency in study choice after announcing this week that it will be taking over study search platform, StudentOrient.org. More...
27 juin 2015
Aus: council to finalise int’l education strategy
By Beckie Smith. The Australian government has announced the membership of a new council to oversee the finalisation and implementation of a national strategy for international education. More....
24 juin 2015
Chinese universities face rising survival crisis
By Xiang Bo. About 9.42 million Chinese high school graduates, slightly less than the population of Sweden, will sit for the famously stressful college entrance examination, known as Gaokao, this weekend.
Despite the huge army of high school seniors pursuing higher education, Chinese universities face a growing survival crisis after decades of explosive expansion. More...
24 juin 2015
Crackdown on foreign-funded groups hits universities
By Suchitra Behal. Some of India’s premier educational institutions and universities find themselves on a government blacklist for non-compliance with regard to funds received by them under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, or FCRA. Read more...
24 juin 2015
Universities expand ‘internet army’ to bolster party line
By Yojana Sharma. Students in China are being recruited in large numbers by their universities as an ‘army’ of online contributors to bolster the official party line, in a new drive by the Communist Youth League of China that will draw universities squarely into the country’s attempts to control the internet within its borders. Read more...
24 juin 2015
Bogus colleges and qualifications: is supervision lax?
By Yojana Sharma. Despite repeated bans by China’s education authorities, new fake universities and other scams continue to pop up on blacklists that are published every year to alert the Chinese public. Read more...
14 juin 2015
U of Sydney Shifts to 4-Year Undergraduate Degrees
The University of Sydney on Monday announced plans to shift undergraduate degrees from three to four years as part of a major overhaul of instruction, The Sydney Morning News reported. University officials said that more time was needed to promote critical thinking and other key skills. Read more...
9 juin 2015
Vietnam universities push for effort to solve alarming plagiarism issue
A number of universities have paid more heed and started taking action to curb plagiarism, which has become a major issue among students and instructors in Vietnam.
At a conference on academic integrity held by Ho Chi Minh City-based Hoa Sen (Lotus) University on May 29, representatives of several local universities said that plagiarism among students in Vietnam is worse than the global average. More...
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