By Study International Staff. Australian universities are expecting an influx of students from Singapore in their next global student drive, following the establishment of the Singapore-Australia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. More...
U21 Ranking of National Higher Education Systems 2016 announced
By Study International Staff. Universitas 21 (U21), the leading global network of research universities for the 21st century, has unveiled the Ranking of National Higher Education Systems for 2016.
The ranking, which is the only one in the world to assess the national education structure in its entire form, meets a longstanding need “to shift the discussion from the ranking of the world’s best universities, to the best overall systems”. More...
Thai universities in ‘crisis’ as student enrollments decline
By Study International Staff. Many universities in Thailand are seeing class sizes steadily shrink as less and less students are submitting applications for enrolment.
Academics are now urging the top management at local universities to rapidly address the situation to avoid being left behind. More...
UK government says no immediate changes for higher education after Brexit vote
By Study International Staff. After the turmoil unleashed by the UK vote to leave the European Union, the British government sought to reassure university students and staff by emphatically ruling out immediate changes to current education arrangements. More...
Are MOOCs Forever?
By Jeffrey R. Young. Think back to the early days of MOOCs. Professors at Stanford and Harvard and other places were suddenly teaching really big classes, free. Hundreds of thousands of students at once were in those courses. It was an unprecedented giveaway of what had traditionally been the most expensive education in the world. More...
The absolutely horrifying state of education in the world’s fastest-growing major economy
By Madhura Karnik. An evaluation of college teachers in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) last week showed that some of the professors lack even basic knowledge of the subjects they teach. For instance, an economics professor did not know what “audit” means or what “IMF” (International Monetary Fund) stands for. More...
Western universities are opening campuses in some odd places where they really don’t need to be
By Amy X. Wang. In the last year, no fewer than three British universities have set down branch campuses on the isolated tropical island off the coast of eastern Africa. Aberystwyth University, one of those three schools, has spent £600,000 ($879,000) on a new campus there big enough to accommodate 2,000—but only 40 students have enrolled. More...
India outpaces China in growth rate of students studying abroad
By Study International Staff. The growth of Indian students going overseas for their studies went up faster than China’s last year, revealed the Indian Students Mobility Report 2016.
In 2015, the number of students from India going abroad came up to 360,000, recording a growth of 17.8 percent. More...
6 Things to Know About Earning an Undergraduate Degree in Germany
By Kelly Mae Ross. For instance, students from the U.S. who want to head to Germany after high school need a GPA of 3.0 or higher, among other prerequesites, according to the German Academic Exchange Service, often called DAAD. The organization has a tool to help students from different countries determine if their high school education qualifies them to study in Germany. More...
English-Taught Degree Programs Overseas Have Pros, Cons
By Kelly Mae Ross. The number of international universities offering degree programs taught in English is on the rise.
In particular, the number of English-taught degree programs offered at European schools is growing. One study identified 2,389 of these programs in non-English-speaking countries in Europe in 2007, but more than 8,000 in 2014. More...