By Mariel Reed. As the world’s biggest Internet market, China is an alluring prospect for U.S. tech firms, including edtech players. China-based edtech companies raked in more than $1 billion in investment in 2015, or 37 percent of global funding for the year. Asia has the world’s highest regional growth rate for e-learning, and an e-learning market projected to be worth $12.1 billion by 2018. More...

By Lidar Gravé-Lazi. In recent years a new age of globalization of higher education has Israel looking east, and forging unprecedented education collaborations with China. More...

Only 15 universities in Africa have been ranked among the top 800 in the world.
South African universities dominated the top rankings, taking six positions, with only Uganda’s Makerere University the only institution outside South Africa to make the top five in fourth place. The University of Ghana and Kenya-based University of Nairobi are ranked in seventh and eight places, respectively. More...

By Owen Skae. I WONDER what Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe thinks about late at night. Last month, while addressing Parliament’s debate on the performance-management budget, he conceded that SA’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth last year was the lowest in 17 years, with the exception of 2009. More...

By Times News Service. Education and Research Committee at the State Council hosted specialists on Tuesday to get inputs to add value to their ongoing study entitled, “Review of duplication in programme discipline in Higher Education.”
The meeting was led by Dr. Abdullah bin Mubarak Al Shanfri, the head of the Committee, in the presence of Committee members and Secretariat staff. More...

By Alex Lo. The nation has its own tertiary institutions – some of them renowned – so why do top leaders prefer Harvard or Oxford for their offspring. More...

By Linda White. If you graduated from a post-secondary institution a decade or more ago, you might be gobsmacked by the variety of new programs available to the newest recruits, including university degrees that cross disciplines in ways unimaginable just a few years ago and brand new college diplomas. More...

By Kunal Anand. As early as 2001, there have been reports of India’s fake universities - which, despite lack of affiliation from the University Grants Commission, award their own degrees. More...

By Atsushi Tomiyama. In Vietnam, there is a growing number of jobless university graduates: as many as 192,500, or 15% of the country's unemployed, according to the General Statistics Office. Despite high education levels and a growing pool of talent, those with college degrees are often stuck without jobs due to structural problems. More...