Von Dirk Riße, Corinna Schulz. Wer Medizin studieren will, aber kein Top-Abitur vorweisen kann, braucht entweder viel Geduld oder einen großen Geldbeutel. Denn die Zulassungsberechtigung, der Numerus clausus, ist hoch, an Wartesemester müssen Bewerber schon mal sechs Jahre einplanen. More...
By Abdi Latif Dahir. Universities and higher education institutions were always part and parcel of Africa’s modern and past history. The Univerisity of Al Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco, which opened in 859 AD, is considered the oldest existing and continually operating university in the world. Al-Azhar University in Egypt, part of the larger complex of institutions associated with Al-Azhar mosque and which currently enrolls two million students, is dubbed the world’s most prestigious Islamic university. More...
The education market in Australia is expected to value $ 115 billion in the future with both domestic students and international enrollments playing a key role in this achievement. Although international enrollments declined marginally during 2011-12, the overall market grew due to an increase in domestic enrollments. More...
By Scott DeRue. Student debt now stands at about $1.3 trillion, with the average family owing over $48,000. And student debt is only a portion of the $132,529 in total debt for the average household, according to a report compiled by NerdWallet.com. More...
By Ellie Bothwell. Germany’s Excellence Strategy – a programme aimed at stimulating competition among universities through selective funding – has little substantial impact on the quality of higher education, according to one rector. More...
By Study International Staff. The UK must keep its doors open to international talent and collaboration, urged the country’s top academic and business leaders in a letter published in the Financial Times recently.
In the letter, signatories such as Universities UK president Julia Goodfellow and British Chambers of Commerce director general Adam Marshall called on Prime Minister Theresa May’s administration to implement policies which would support international collaboration. More...
By . Dozens of fake degree certificate websites have been shut down as part of a major crackdown on fraudulent university awards.
It comes as the head of an investigatory body warns of the danger of “degree selfies”. More...
By Beth Kungel Borck. Globally diverse faculty and international networking opportunities are two factors to consider.
Researching which online program is right for you can be a daunting task, especially if you currently reside outside of the U.S. You must take into consideration your country of residence, time zone and program fit. More...
By Paul Greatrix. Gordon McKenzie, writing here on Wonkhe, noted that the Green Paper proposals gave the shiny new Office for Students responsibility for quality assurance and the new Teaching Excellence Framework but a key question remained:
should the Office for Students carry out these functions itself or have the power to contract them out to separate bodies? This question places the future of QAA, HESA and perhaps HEA, all of them sector owned bodies, in the balance. The Green Paper is suitably tentative, recognising the “benefits of maintaining a co-regulated approach, the role that other bodies play in supporting wider decisions, for example in providing educational oversight on Tier 4 licence applications, and the UK-wide role”.
A lot of the discussion on the Office for Students (OfS) has focused on what Question 18 in the BIS consultation describes as the “higher education architecture”. More...
Education Minister Wu Se-hwa said Wednesday that he is happy to see the planned merger between National Yang-Ming University and National Chiao Tung University and believes it could expand their operational scale and enhance their international competitiveness. More...
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