Elite universities are offering ‘buy-one-get-one-free’ degrees to lure A-grade students, it has emerged, as they ramp up their efforts to attract top-flight students, writes Javier Espinoza for The Telegraph. Read more...
15 août 2016
15 août 2016
Science graduates struggle to find their first job
A new Grattan Institute report shows that while government and industry are urging more young people to study STEM – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – courses, science graduates have a hard time finding their first job, writes Tim Dodd for the Australian Financial Review. Read more...
15 août 2016
University heads issue warning over budget cuts
The heads of academic institutions warned last week that the opening of the upcoming academic year would be in jeopardy if planned budget cuts to the higher education system were to pass, reports The Jerusalem Post. Read more...
15 août 2016
Parliament passes Technical Universities Bill
The bill to convert six out of the 10 polytechnics into fully-fledged universities received the unanimous approval of Ghanaian legislators on 3 August, reports Ghana Web. Read more...
15 août 2016
Universities face student enrolment shortfalls
Twenty-three universities are facing enrolment shortfalls this year, with six private institutions seeing only half of their expected numbers, a trend some experts said was a direct result of the nation’s declining birth rate, write Wu Po-hsuan and Willian Hetherington for Taipei Times. Read more...
15 août 2016
Universities face financial struggle
South African universities are currently struggling financially and the situation is worsened by the huge, ballooning debt owed to the institutions by students, the Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education and Training chaired by Justice Jonathan Arthur Heher heard last week, reports Africa News Agency. Read more...
15 août 2016
Private schools extend lead in entrants to university
Data shows that private schools extended their lead over state schools in getting pupils into England's universities after higher fees were introduced, reports Hannah Richardson for the BBC. Read more...
15 août 2016
One-third of international graduates remain to work
Over a third of all international students who graduated from Dutch universities have remained in the Netherlands five years later, according to a report from EP-Nuffic on the rate of retention of foreign students, writes Natalie Marsh for The PIE News. Read more...
15 août 2016
Rich universities ‘could do more’ for poor students
An Education Trust report shows that the top 4% of colleges and universities hold three quarters of all endowment wealth in higher education, yet four in five of those 138 institutions expect the neediest families to hand over more than 60% of their income to cover the cost of attendance, writes Danielle Douglas-Gabriel for The Washington Post. Read more...
15 août 2016
50% rise in students going to UK, US universities
The number of Indian students going overseas for undergraduate and postgraduate studies is expected to increase by 50% over the next five years due to a manifold increase in their family incomes, reports the Press Trust of Indias. Read more...
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