There are over 4,000 universities in the US, and no standard application system. The application system can be confusing for everyone, but even more so for international students who have never heard of it before.
There are hundreds of guides out there, detailing different pieces of the application puzzle. There is even a course on applying to US universities.
Here is the quick and dirty guide on the essentials of applying to American colleges and universities. See more...

A new report from Universities UK underlines the positive impacts that international students have on the UK’s economy and society, and warns that government policy is impacting the country’s competitiveness as a leading global study destination. It also shows that the composition of the international student body in the UK is changing over time; in particular, that South Asia is contributing fewer students and East Asia is sending more. More...

By Helen Warrell. More than 150 years ago, the Catholic cardinal John Henry Newman set out his vision for a university as “a place of concourse, whither students come from every quarter for every kind of knowledge”. As students have become more mobile, and higher education institutions more international, Cardinal Newman might be surprised at the truly diverse concourse of the modern education market. More...

By Anya Kamenetz. "I went to a four-year university." "That job requires a one-year certificate." "It's a two-semester course." "She's a fifth-year senior." What do these expressions have in common? They use time as the yardstick for higher education. Essentially, this means measuring not how much you've learned, but how long you've spent trying to learn it.
The conventions of the credit hour, the semester and the academic year were formalized in the early 1900s. Time forms the template for designing college programs, accrediting them and — crucially — funding them using federal student aid. But in 2013, for the first time, the Department of Education took steps to loosen the rules. More...

More and more college students have given up studying because of the inability to pay tuition fees. Supportive measures are needed to help students who want to learn devote themselves to their studies.
A survey taken by the education ministry found that, in the 2012 academic year, the number of those who dropped out of universities, junior colleges and similar institutions totaled 79,000. More...

SCHOOL vouchers are a divisive subject in America. Proponents claim that vouchers not only grant parents the opportunity to send their children to a private school, but also raise the quality of all education by creating more competition between schools. Critics complain that these subsidies divert necessary resources from public schools, and rarely cover the full cost of a private education. To settle this debate, many have looked to Sweden, where vouchers were introduced in 1992. The results there have been cited as both a case for and against vouchers. More...

MOOCs may not have delivered on the revolutionary promise of a free college education for all, but instead, may be evolving into a technology offering solutions for many different types of learners. MOOC-offering companies like Udacity and Thinkful are seeing the value of winnowing down from a one-size-fits-all approach to a targeted strategy of delivering online learning to targeted populations. The MOOC revolution is still happening, but on a smaller scale.
Udacity’s new direction is a signal of the new MOOC environment. The company underwent a pivot taking it away from higher ed and into a model that bills itself as “built by industry for industry.” Udacity’s training is positioned to address the shortage of STEM workers in the tech industry. More...

Like a colourful, graph-packed version of the Ivany report, the Community Foundation of Nova Scotia’s new publication on the state of the province’s young people is not a happy read.
The report, its statistics and the conclusions that can be drawn tie into how our economy is doing, which is not great.
The report has limited commentary and is presented mainly as statistics, which sometimes call out for more explanation or a broader context. For example, it compares suicidal thoughts and attempts among high schoolers across Canada, but omits the actual suicide rate. More...

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