A government-funded agency is offering scholarships for up to 182 students from developing countries who are interested in studying in Taiwan.
Applications will be accepted through March 14, said Lee Pai-po, deputy secretary-general of the Taipei-based International Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF), Tuesday.
"This year will be the first time programs taught both in English and Mandarin Chinese will be available for the students," Lee said. "In the past, only English-taught programs were available."
Around 20 places will be available for the Mandarin-taught programs, he said.
The Higher Education Scholarship Program offers scholarships to students from developing countries to study for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at Taiwanese universities. More...

Advancement professionals at colleges, universities and schools worldwide met the opportunities and challenges of fiscal year 2013 with an entrepreneurial spirit, a strong emphasis on teamwork and a growing sophistication in the use of mobile and Internet technology.
Alumni relations professionals forged partnerships across their campuses with advancement peers, especially with fundraising offices, and turned to data and analytics to illustrate the importance of their work. They also explored new ways to connect with alumni and develop programs that would strengthen institutional connections.
Communications and marketing professionals recognized the power of online communities, expanded their use of the full range of social media and focused efforts on website content strategy, video production and online advertising, adding new methods to their interactions with constituents. They also made progress in building a greater recognition of their institutional role and contributions to the financial health of their institutions. More...

L'apprentissage est en perte de vitesse. Une baisse de l'ordre de 9,2 % du nombre de contrats a en effet été enregistrée entre 2012 et 2013.
Alors qu'il est de mieux en mieux perçu par les jeunes, leurs parents et les entreprises, l'apprentissage n'évolue plus, et même diminue… En effet, selon la Direction de l'animation, de la recherche, des études et des statistiques (Dares), en 2013, les contrats d'apprentissage ont chuté de 9,2 % par rapport à 2012. En tout, cela correspond à une perte de 25 014 contrats. Suite...

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By Lucy Sherriff. Charging British students tuition fees for attending Scottish universities would be illegal if the country were to gain its independence, legal experts have warned. The news is bound to be a blow to the Scottish National Party as Scotland would be left to foot a £150m bill in extra university fees.
The Scottish government says students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland would be made to continue paying fees if the country was granted its independence, while those from Scotland and other EU countries attend the university for free. However, experts have said the practice would break EU laws as it would discriminate against the British. More...

By Dick Ahlstrom. Quinn publishes Bill to allow for the creation of a number of technological universities. Applications to become Ireland’s first technological university could reach the Department of Education as early as the end of the year. Legislation should be ready by that time to allow former institutes of technology to take on this new status, the Minister for Education and Skills said today. Mr Ruairí Quinn published the heads of Bill for legislation that will allow for the creation under statute of a number of technological universities. More...

By Jason Song. The president and first lady are joined at a White House summit by others who have made commitments to help increase college accessibility for low-income students. California schools are well represented. More than 100 colleges and universities, including several in California, promised Thursday to try to attract more low-income students by strengthening relationships with high schools and community colleges, increasing access to advisors and offering more remedial programs. More...

By Hereward Holland. Closed following student unrest in 1988, Yangon University is accepting undergraduates again in a sign of change. Once a hotbed of political subversion, the old foundations of the Rangoon Student Union now sustain a grove of trees that sway sleepily in regimental rows. A student sits on a wall nearby, leafing through a text book.
The old building was blown up in 1962 by the first of Burma's secretive military juntas that steered the country through decades of misrule and eviscerated its once-prestigious higher education system.
Half a century and a name-change later, the leafy avenues of Yangon University are crawling with the first crop of undergraduates to study a curriculum free from the interfering hand of the military. More...

By David Macfarlane, Victoria John. The launch of Blade Nzimande's white paper and the audited data on universities exposes the steady pattern of dropouts, failure and graduation. Between government's release this week of its landmark white paper on post-school education and training, and its orgiastic celebration last week of the 2013 matric results, another document rather more modestly entered the public domain. More...

Globalisation is crucial to Finland, especially in its economic development. As a small country in the north of Europe, Finland’s economy is highly dependent on international trade and the international markets (statement by the Prime Minister’s Office). The Internationalisation of Higher Education Strategy, issued by the Ministry of Education of Finland in 2009, stresses the role of universities in a globalising local society. To achieve this end, especially in the economic dimension, is by no means an easy task. It requires actors involved in international education not only to be committed but also to be innovative. In so doing they need to better understand the nature of globalisation and go beyond thinking within the higher education sector per se. However, the current practices in internationalisation of higher education in Finland seem to have much room for improvement. More...