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•     Participants at a recent education technology conference heard that the next phase of development for online learning may well include full undergraduate degrees offered by leading institutions
•     The technology and quality assurance mechanisms for such a move are already in place
•     There may also be some momentum in this direction arising from early examples of both post-graduate and undergraduate MOOC courses for credit, in some cases leading to complete degrees
•     A further expansion of full academic programmes online is supported as well by research findings as to the strong performance of students in online and blended learning programmes. Read more...

By Ahmad Jawed Samsor. None of higher education institutions in Afghanistan has ever been evaluated or ranked by an International or regional ranking body, in other words the institutes have not yet met the minimum Requirements to be ranked or be placed in one of those lists. Read more...

Every year, close to 2 lakh Indian students sign out of the domestic education sector to pursue a foreign degree. The counterflow, however, is nothing to write home about.
A headcount of foreign students by the HRD ministry for 2013-14 showed that enrolment of international students in Indian varsities was up by a modest 11,000 to touch 31,126. This barely conspicuous increase took place at a time when the foreign student population in universities across the world was growing at the frenetic pace of 60 per cent since 2000. More...

There are more Indonesian students attending colleges and universities in the US now than at any time in the last ten years, according the International Institute of Education (IIE), a non-profit organization that tries to improve access to international education for students worldwide. More...