This year’s Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences has been won by Angus Deaton “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”.
Now Dwight D. Eisenhower professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, Scotland-born Deaton grew up in Edinburgh, a city to which, he once told Times Higher Education, he attributes “a strong empirical tradition” as well as his own “dour scepticism”. More...
By Sungula Nkabinde. The African Virtual University, Nigerian higher education leader Olugbemiro Jegede and Russian academic Irina Smirnova were awarded major global awards related to open, distance and e-learning by the International Council for Open and Distance Education on Friday. Read more...
The call is now open for the European Foundations Award for Responsible Research and Innovation, an award that celebrates excellent European research practices (i.e. research projects and programmes) which incorporate elements of responsible research and innovation throughout the research process. More...
Par Fanny Lauzier. Étudiant, étudiante... Si tu veux gagner un prix Nobel, penche toi attentivement sur le classement des universités ayant produit le plus grand nombre de lauréats du prix Nobel. Suite...
By Natalie Samson. University Affairs has scored seven nominations in six categories at the 2015 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The website is vying for gold in the following categories in the business-to-business media division. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. The federal government has begun to enforce the gainful employment rule for for-profit and career colleges. They are proposing that colleges where too many graduates can’t repay their loans should be forced out of the federal student aid program. If that kind of regulation were extended, without forcing colleges to publicize a fixed price and without removing their ability to bargain, you could still have competition based on productivity and outcomes. More...
By and . The top ten list of institutions around the world which have won the most Nobel Prizes this century does not contain a single British university. US institutions dominated the list, compiled by Times Higher Education, which was topped by Stanford, followed by Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley. But the UK was second place behind the US in terms of nationalities who have won the prize, with 12 British winners in the past 15 years. There have been 71 American laureates. More...By . The US continues to dominate when it comes to Nobel Prizes, according to a new list of the academics and institutions that have won most of the prestigious accolades so far in the 21st century. American institutions and academics topped the list, put together by the magazine Times Higher Education (THE). More...By Stefanie Botelho. College search season is upon us and with it will come the now-common discussion about the risingcosts of higher education. More...
Every year since 2005, the Unesco King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education rewards people and institutions that are rethinking pedagogy for the digital age. More...
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