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By Caleb Ajinomoh. Secondary school leavers and university graduates who wish to study in selected countries in Europe have been rest assured of being accepted at their universities of choice and of procuring the requisite travel documents with relative ease.
Mr. Maksym Tsygankov, a top Ukrainian education expert and sales/marketing director of More Educational Services Ltd made the announcement at a press conference/workshop organized recently to formally unveil the platform at the mini hall of Cata apartment hotels, Ajao Estate, Lagos. More...

By Alexander Chernykh. The World Foreign University Student Association will unite graduates of Soviet and Russian universities.
A new global student association has been established in Russia with the aim of uniting several million people who graduated from Soviet and Russian universities. More...

By John Wilkerson. "Learning by doing" is an idea that many college students in the U.S. have become familiar with. It has long been a hallmark of U.S. higher education, and it calls on students to not only learn the theories and techniques associated with a particular field of study, but to put that knowledge to work. More...

By Jiongcheng “Arthur” Xu. It is a very exciting experience to work in a foreign country as an international student. I've worked three different on-campus positions so far, and I feel that experience has changed and helped me a lot. With that in mind, I wanted to share some tips to help international students understand what working on campus is like – and how to make it a successful experience. More...

Only 0.56 percent of students with disabilities are pursuing higher education in the country, a survey has revealed.
The percentage of people with disabilities employed in the public sector is around 1 percent and in the private sector the figure is around 0.5 percent, National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) survey data on employment over the past two decades shows. More...

By Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg. In a new evaluation of 1,000 universities worldwide published in Jeddah last week, Arab schools performed poorly.
None were among the top 500 and most Arab countries did not make it to the list at all, including those previously known for quality education, such as Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria. Only 10 universities from four Arab countries made it to the list, albeit in very low positions. Puzzling, considering their long history of higher education and the attention many Arab governments and families place on higher education. More...

By Binod Ghimire. The number of Nepalis seeking to study abroad set a record last fiscal year as the figures increased nearly three-fold over a four-year period.
According to the Department of Scholarship under the Ministry of Education, 30,696 students acquired the No Objection Certification (NOC) letter, which is a must for Nepalis to get enrolment in academic institutions except in India. More...

Foreign Relations minister Andres Navarro met Friday with rectors and vice rectors of 19 universities to explain the scope of the government Program to Regularize Foreigners and the National Human Rights Plan.
During the meeting, held at the Foreign Relations Ministry, Navarro called for the support of the universities for the success of the new migratory policy based on the Constitution of the Republic, national laws and international conventions the Dominican Republic is a signatory of, elnuevodiario.com.do reported. More...

By Lee Page. Universities' internationalisation rankings have limited significance according to new research from the University of Warwick. This is because the way internationalisation is measured only takes into account the quantity of foreign students at each institution and not the extent to which they network with their counterparts from the UK. Thus, there is a strong emphasis on structural aspects of internationalisation and less on social ones. More...

By George Anders. In a country of rigid teaching styles and scarce university slots, students and professors are exploring what online learning can be.
How does a talented Indian teenager like Gaurav Goyal make his mark on the world? Ordinarily, his destiny would have been set on the morning in 2008 when he took his country’s toughest college placement exam: the IIT Joint Entrance Exam. More...