By Andy Thomason. A community-college district in California is drawing fire from several sides for its deal to help run two technical colleges in Saudi Arabia, the Los Angeles Times reports. The critics charge that, among other things, the Rancho Santiago Community College District violated a state open-meetings law in arranging the deal and, through its presence in the Middle Eastern nation, is tacitly supporting the anti-democratic policies of the Saudi government. More...
By Andy Thomason. Yale University gave its departing president, Richard C. Levin, an $8.5-million bonus after he left the job, at the end of the 2012-13 academic year, The Wall Street Journal reports. The bonus was noted in Yale’s most recent federal tax return, which was filed on Friday. More...
By Karin Fischer. Employers say that international experience matters in hiring decisions. Chief executives fret that today’s graduates lack the skills to succeed in a global economy. Even the U.S. secretary of education, Arne Duncan, in recorded remarks to the annual conference here this week of Nafsa: Association of International Educators, called global education a must-have. More...By Robert Zaretsky. During the last week of the semester, I held my senior seminar outdoors. The weather was too glorious and the students too excited. Most of them graduate this year; settling themselves on the grass, they chatted less about what we were doing today than what they would do tomorrow. Bouncing back and forth their plans for the next chapter, the next phase, the next stop in their still-young lives, they were rushing toward the future and fastened on their life after university. More...
By Jon Marcus. The male student societies are under pressure like never before. Is it time to shut them down – or can they mend their ways. More...
By Jack Grove. Planned cuts to the European Union's research budget have been reduced by €500 million (£357 million) following pressure from scientists, university leaders and MEPs. More...
By Chris Havergal. Welsh universities have created a new initiative to attract more international students.
Study in Wales was set to be launched on 25 May at the annual conference of Nafsa, the US’s international education association, being held in Boston, Massachusetts. More...
By Holly Else. The University of Oxford is set for a female leader for the first time in its history, with Louise Richardson in line for the post. More...
By Holly Else. The oversupply of PhD holders in Europe is causing “considerable dissatisfaction and stress” for researchers on temporary contracts, according to a report by the European Science Foundation. More...
By Matthew Reisz. Young experts in everything from wartime France to the theme of the widow in British literature have been selected in this year’s cohort of New Generation Thinkers. More...
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