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At a time when the domestic market is shrinking there are two products that can be seen prominently in the media: Housing and universities. In particular, private universities, which are referred to as "foundation universities" in Turkey, are advertising themselves widely across various media. None of these institutions are more than a decade old, but their number has grown to 71 in a short period of time. More...

The Parliamentary Committee on the Ministry of Education also recommended increasing the vigil on the institutions ‘to combat irregularities and corruption’ there.
The recommendations were made on Tuesday at a meeting of the committee held at Parliament building on the University of Science and Technology (USTC), a private-sector institution. More...

By Suzanne Kattau. The Big Data market is expected to grow to $28.5 billion by the end of 2014 and to top $50 billion by 2017, according to a recent Wikibon report. With the growing market comes millions of new Big Data and Analytics jobs that are being created across the globe. But the amount of new jobs far outweigh the number of scientists and engineers who have the education to fill them. More...

One of Germany’s top universities wants to ditch German and switch almost all of its master’s programmes to English in the next six years, prompting fears that the academic standing of the German language is under serious threat.
Munich's Technical University (TU), one of the highest ranked in Germany, already uses English in 30 of its 99 master's courses. Now the board of trustees has followed a recommendation by the university's president, Wolfgang Herrmann, to switch to English for most other master's modules by 2020. More...

For increasing number of Indians, Germany is emerging a favoured higher education destination overseas. There has been 114% increase in the number of Indian students enrolling for higher education courses there since 2008, according to the latest figures released by the regional office of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). More...

When Associate Professor Yingyi Ma arrived on campus in 2006 to teach, she noticed few international students from China at the undergraduate level. Since then, at SU and other universities, a change has been occurring.
“Many universities, especially public universities, are recruiting more international students from Asia,” Ma says. The number of international students is as high as 10 percent or more of undergraduates at some universities. More...

By Nikoleta Kalmouki. The Cypriot government is planning to introduce stricter measures for foreign students who enter Cyprus to study, only to abandon their studies and remain in the country to work illegally.
A ministerial committee suggested the implementation of a seven-year limit on the duration of studies. The measure concerns only students from countries other than EU member states. The Cypriot universities would be given a two-year transition period to harmonize their operations. See more...

Liu Baicheng, an 81-year-old professor of mechanical engineering at Tsinghua University, is happy to recall his 1978 arrival in New York, an occasion that opened the floodgates to 35 years of booming academic exchange between China and the United States.
"Chinese people are great people, and American people are also great people. We came all the way to the United States, not only to learn advanced science and technology, but also to promote the friendship between the Chinese and American peoples," Liu told U.S. reporters upon landing at John. F. Kennedy International Airport on Dec. 26, 1978, five days before the historic establishment of China-U.S. diplomatic ties. More...

By Teresa Marques. Every five years, the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) reviews its research institutes from Astronomy to Zoology. But this year, for the first time, the FCT contracted the European Science Foundation (ESF) for the job. FCT's resulting reallocation of funding will impact upon the career of more than 5,000 researchers – a third of the total in the country. Read more...