By Study International Staff. Efforts to make college more accessible in New Mexico and a handful of other states by tapping lottery proceeds are in jeopardy as tuition costs rise, ticket sales slump and state budgets falter.
It would seem that January’s ticket-buying frenzy over the US$1.6billion Powerball jackpot was not destined to last long, since proceeds from weekly lottery draws are failing to keep up with the higher education costs they were supposed to contribute to. More...

By David Rothkopf. In the midst of the Mideast’s chaos, one country has become a laboratory for producing exciting new ideas about the future of governance. More...

Mr Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa, Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary, said the National Accreditation Board and the National Council for Tertiary Education had drawn-up new guidelines for the accreditation of new universities to meet standards. More...

By Fatjona Mejdini. Albania is to pay a British agency, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, QAA, around 700,000 euros to rank the quality of its 35 public and private universities. More...

The Embassy of France to the Philippines renews its strong commitment to French-Philippine relations by announcing this year’s academic scholarship program for Filipinos.
Two separate calls for applications to full scholarships have been opened for students wishing to come to France either as part of an exchange or a degree-awarding program in all fields and levels of study. More...

By Hemali Chhapia. Mumbai: Four Triangle-area universities will partner to build an alumni network to invest in new ventures of the larger university community, with the help of a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to the Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative (Duke I&E). More...

By Wan Saiful Wan Jan. I was in Johor Bahru last Thursday, to speak at the “Great Debate” held at UTM Skudai.  The topic was “Does an English medium education increase competitiveness or dilute identity?” 
The debate touched on the government’s decision to pilot the Dual Language Programme (DLP) in schools.  Under the DLP scheme, schools are allowed to teach selected subject in English if they fulfil certain criteria.  The aim is to increase the amount of time a student uses English so that there can be greater immersion into the language. More...

By Rebecca Urban. Record numbers of international students are flocking to Australian universities, colleges and schools, led by the Chinese, whose enrolments have swelled more than 13 per cent.
Almost a million foreign students were in Australia on study visas last year, figures from the ­Department of Education and Training show, a rise of 10 per cent on 2014. More...