By Ray Bendici. The combination of the campus expansion boom of the past decade and the recent flattening of enrollment rates continues to create a significant backlog of deferred maintenance at many institutions, says report. More...
By Ray Bendici. The newest addition to the Boca Raton campus is a 96,000-square-foot state-of-the-art football practice facility and academic space. More...
By . Philosophy is not under attack in Morocco, its prime minister Abdelilah Benkirane stated publicly on January 19. The unusual declaration was an official intervention in a debate over the role and value of philosophy, and its compatibility with religious faith. More...
Par . La radicalisation peut commencer très tôt chez les jeunes. Pour éviter cette fermeture des esprits et la fin du dialogue, l’éducation aux médias est un levier pour la fraternité et l’intelligence. Face à la submersion des informations produites par la numérisation et la connexion des réseaux humains et digitaux, nous sommes aujourd’hui face à un enjeu révolutionnaire « Comment identifier et dire la vérité ». Voir l'article...
Par et . En 30 ans, le programme Erasmus a vraiment fait ses preuves. En 1987, année de son lancement, environ 3 000 étudiants européens étaient partis en échange. Désormais, ce sont près de 300 000 qui partent chaque année. Et Erasmus+, le programme de la Commission Européenne lancé en France au 1er janvier 2014, a été élargi à tous et vise à favoriser les projets de mobilité et de coopération au-delà des seuls étudiants et surtout au-delà des frontières de l’Europe. Il bénéficie aujourd’hui à 700 000 participants, dont 340 000 dans l’enseignement supérieur. Voir l'article...
By Jessie Williams. Erasmus grants give students the chance to work or study in Europe for a year. It would be a tragedy if it were scrapped.
There is one potential consequence of Brexit that hasn’t been widely discussed but would affect over 15,000 UK students: the Erasmus scheme. It’s a brilliant funding programme that offers students a grant to work or study in Europe for a year as part of their degree. According to Erasmus statistics, the number of UK students on the scheme increased by 115% between 2007 and 2014.
But now it is under threat. Nobody yet knows if the scheme will be kept in the UK after we leave the EU. So this is a plea to Brexit negotiators: keep Erasmus. It is vital. It is worthwhile. And it would be a tragedy if it is lost. More...
By . A massive increase in both non-Egyptian Arab students and other foreign students in recent years has been a real boom for public universities in Egypt. These institutions benefit both from higher fees paid by those students, and from an enhanced academic standing thanks to the talent they attract from abroad. More...
By . For African and Arab students coming from outside Tunisia, the racial discrimination is an additional burden at a time when they already face significant administrative and financial difficulties. More...
By . If the universities remain dependent on tuition as their main source of income, education will become exclusively for wealthy people, and will not be affordable for the general public. More...
By . “You can’t have a knowledge society without libraries,” says professor of library studies Sumayya Ahmed. This is the reason that countries such as Qatar and the United Arab Emirates—small, young, oil-rich states that aim to be hubs of education and innovation—are investing in them. More...
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