By Mark Wilding. The road to Nottingham University is lined with palm trees. Behind the trees, across a carefully manicured lawn and an ornamental lake, sits the university's gleaming white campus headquarters. On the other side of the road is a series of newly constructed luxury apartments, built to house the university's students, set against the backdrop of a brilliant blue sky. If this all sounds a long way from the East Midlands, that's because it is. More...
By Calestous Juma. Four of the highest recipients of Olympics medals are also permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. The US, UK, Russia and China rank on top not necessarily because they’re superpowers, but because they field competitors in nearly every sport.
By winning five medals in taekwondo, African countries demonstrated they too can diversify into new sports and excel. More...
By Rahul Choudaha and Di Hu. American universities and colleges enrolled 350,000 more international students in 2014/15 as compared to 2007/08, indicating strong attractiveness of U.S. higher education institutions among globally mobile students. During the period of seven years since the beginning of the global financial recession, the number of international students in the U.S. increased by 56% to reach nearly 975,000 students. However, the international student enrollment at ten leading public research universities has grown much faster, at a rate of 74% ,reaching nearly 90,000 international students in the same period. More...
By Lianna Brinded. Switzerland, France, and Britain have the most universities in top 19 ranking of where graduates earn the most in Europe.
That is according to Emolument.com's table of European colleges with the highest earning graduates. More...
By Prashant K. Nanda. On Tuesday, the union government approved a new scheme to provide 1,000 research fellowships a year to B.Tech students of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) to encourage them to opt for research in India instead of pursuing it abroad.
It is designed to address the weakest link in the IIT ecosystem, otherwise a premier domain of quality engineering education in the country. The fellowship, which would pay out Rs.60,000 every month, is only a part of the story. More...
By Megan McNulty. Jossalyn Jensen, a Juilliard School violist who won a Fulbright scholarship to study music in Paris for two years, is among the thousands of American students setting out to study abroad this fall.
"I'm really excited," she said. "I'm really looking forward being immersed in the musical culture and getting more into the language."
This will be the second time Jenson has studied in Paris. More...
By Clifton B. Parker. China can improve its higher education system by introducing incentives for students and teachers so they take learning more seriously, a Stanford professor says. Under the current system, college students are essentially guaranteed a diploma, offering little motivation to excel. More...
By . The United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union could benefit the education sector in Singapore.
British universities will be looking for international partners, and the strong Singapore private and public higher education sector is perfectly placed to capitalise on British universities' need to join forces. More...
By . Technology in modern times is not only a driver of economic growth for countries, but also the means to advance universal prosperity. This explains why many countries develop technology both domestically and through international cooperation. Leaders of India recognized the importance of science at the very outset of the formation of the newly independent state. More...
By Alice P. Gast. In the fast-paced competitive world of high-tech and intensifying globalization, a great opportunity awaits students willing to study abroad. Last year, the number of international students coming to Texas rose by 18 percent. Yet, only 1 in 10 U.S. undergraduate students undertake study at a foreign university. When they do study abroad, 62 percent of them take a short-term stay of a summer or up to eight weeks. More...
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