By Matthew Knott . Under the current system, undergraduate law and accounting students can be charged up to $10,440 a year while humanities, teaching and nursing students are charged $6256 a year. The federal government allocates all undergraduate subjects to one of eight different funding bands, based on a formula including how much graduates are expected to earn and how much courses cost to teach. More...
A debate in Algeria about plans to switch to teaching science in the French language is raising arguments about the country's cultural identity.
Education minister Nouria Benghebrit has suggested that teaching in French could improve students' results.
Universities in Algeria teach science in French, but schools teach in Arabic.
There have been concerns that students face a language barrier when they are taught in French at university, with many failing in their first year. More...
By JT. Civil Service Bureau (CSB) President Khalaf Hmeisat on Wednesday urged universities and public agencies in charge of higher education to temporarily halt accepting students in disciplines classified as stagnant or oversupplied. More...
By Michael Hassett. In a few weeks, my daughter, an American-Japanese dual national born, raised and mostly educated in Japanese in Japan, will begin her first year of higher learning at her dream school — Middlebury College, one of America’s oldest liberal arts institutes. More...
By Bhawani Negi. UGC has prohibited state and private universities from establishing centres outside their territorial jurisdiction. This will not only mean loss of enrolment for various courses offered by the International Centre for Distance Education and Open Learning (ICDEOL) of the HPU but also leave students harried. More...
By Shadma Malik. The government has ordered closing down of Darul Ihsan University and outer campuses of other private universities operating in the country. A notification was issued to this effect by the Education Ministry yesterday, ministry PRO Md Saifullah confirmed to the Dhaka Tribune. The development comes amid reports of current and former students of private universities being involved in terrorism. More...
By Staff Report in Eurasia & World. The international Akare agency recently announced its survey on higher education. According to the analysed data, Kazakhstan was recognised as a country to offer education opportunities for the most affordable prices. It was stated that one year of studies in a Kazakh university will approximately cost $4,500. This amount also includes accommodation, food and additional daily expenditures. More...
By Matthew T. Hora. On a recent visit to the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao to study the skills gap between higher education and the labor market, I had a different translator with me each day. They were mostly female English instructors in their early 30s, and they accompanied me on tours of cavernous manufacturing facilities, boardroom conversations with HR directors and recently hired workers, as well as interviews with college professors and administrators. More...
By . THE Ministry of Education (MOE) said on Tuesday it has worked with the universities in Singapore to tighten processes to monitor and enforce scholarship bonds, following a report from the Auditor-General's Office Singapore (AGO) that ticked off MOE for a lack of oversight over these bonds. More...
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