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8 février 2016

Top 15 universities in the Arab world announced

By Ellie Bothwell. Saudi Arabia is the top performer in a snapshot ranking for universities in the Arab region, based on data from the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-2016.
King Abdulaziz University is first place in the top 15 table, while its national rivals King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and King Saud University are third and fourth respectively. Lebanon’s American University of Beirut (second) and the United Arab Emirates University (fifth) make up the rest of the top five. More...

8 février 2016

UK universities ‘should provide targeted support for refugee students’

By Ellie Bothwell. Researcher argues that a sector-wide approach to supporting refugees would be more effective than individual schemes. More...

8 février 2016

US students ‘take more risks while studying abroad’

By Ellie Bothwell. US students engage in riskier behaviour, such as using drugs and drinking dangerous levels of alcohol, while studying abroad, according to a new study that argues that universities should take more. More...

8 février 2016

Egypt’s universities launch UK partnerships

By Ellie Bothwell. Universities in the UK and Egypt have signed 10 partnership agreements aimed at building scientific research and increasing opportunities for student and staff exchanges. More...

8 février 2016

When prison meets higher education: can collaboration go too far?

By Ellie Bothwell. There have been a number of schemes launched by universities in recent years focused on educating prisoners to aid rehabilitation. More...

8 février 2016

Universities follow suit: Tampere cheaper for foreign students than Helsinki in 2017

Yle logoThe University of Helsinki announced last week that it would be charging students coming from non-EU and non-EEA countries tuition for studying in its programmes. Finland's other institutions of higher education are also starting to deliver their estimates on foreign students' school payments. More...
8 février 2016

Call for law to set up Academic City

Return to frontpageThe State government should finalise the legislation on establishment of an Academic City and International Higher Academic Zones to give a boost to the internationalisation of education in the State, the Kovalam Declaration on making Kerala a hub of international education has urged. More...
8 février 2016

For African students in India, racial taunts await at every turn

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "hindustantimes.com"African students studying in colleges across India say the recent incident in Bangalore, where a Tanzanian woman was allegedly stripped and paraded by an angry mob, was shocking but not entirely surprising. More...
8 février 2016

Alarm over Aussie unis' low entry standards

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "asiaone.com"By Jonathan Pearlman. Universities in Australia have been accepting large numbers of students who fall below the admission requirements, prompting concerns about a decline in the nation's education standards. More...
8 février 2016

Germany’s excellence program gets good grades

By Gretchen Vogel. Germany should award millions of euros in extra funding to its 10 top-performing universities, an international commission recommended today. That is one of the best ways to build on the country’s Excellence Initiative, a decade-long program that was supposed to boost German universities to world-class status. The commission, chaired by physicist Dieter Imboden of the ETH Zurich in Switzerland, presented its long-awaited evaluation of the program today. More...
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