By Josh Logue. The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, where Hart has worked for four years as president of its only community college (and only public institution of higher education), is a United States territory that lies 2,500 miles north of Australia. By August, the island chain had already ridden out six storms this year. Read more...
Over the last few years the number of students in higher education in Estonia has dropped significantly – from 67,600 in 2011 to 55,200 in 2014, according to Statistics Estonia. The fall is largely due to a fall in the number of young adults in the country – after the birth boom in the mid to late 1980s, the birth rate dropped drastically in the early 1990s. Read more...
The Open University is to close seven regional centres in what it says is an attempt to streamline student support. Affected staff would need to relocate, or take voluntary redundancy or early retirement, writes Katherine Sellgren for BBC News. Read more...
Universities are cautiously welcoming a government requirement for them to start publishing the job success and pay rates of graduates. But, according to Universities New Zealand, the way the information is presented could "make or break" it, reports 3News. Read more...
The heated exchanges on the unabridged birth certificate required for minors entering South Africa and its effect on tourism have occupied centre space in discussions on the new immigration regulations and overshadowed the impact of other equally disquieting sections. Read more...
The University of California's recent announcement that it had pulled US$200 million out of coal and oil sands investments may be one of the most powerful divestments yet – but not because it'll hurt fossil fuel companies' bottom line, writes Lydia O’Connor for The Huffington Post. Read more...
Mexico's Universidad de las Américas Puebla reportedly became the first institution in Latin America to welcome bitcoin on campus last month, after a coffee shop began accepting payments in the cryptocurrency. Read more...
The University of Copenhagen has asked the Danish government for permission to create extra student spaces for refugees and migrants arriving in the country. The university wants to provide an education to refugees who receive a temporary residence permit and those who are having their applications processed, reports The Local. Read more...
Canadian universities are ramping up efforts to help Syrian refugees reach a safe haven here, but many are using existing programmes rather than looking to a private sponsorship programme that has caught Canadians’ imagination, writes Simona Chiose for The Globe and Mail. Read more...
By Karin Goodwin. International education institutions and universities should find new ways of building partnerships with Indian counterparts as opportunities grow for India to receive and teach overseas students, the European Association for International Education, or EAIE conference in Glasgow, Scotland, was told last week. Read more...
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