By Natalie Marsh. Despite the year-on-year rise in UK students spending part of their degree programme overseas, there is still work to be done to turn academics into study abroad advocates, the head of the UK’s Go International campaign has said. More...
By Natalie Marsh. The conflict in Ukraine has resulted in a surge of Ukrainian enrolments at Polish universities. Students are enticed by the country’s affordable degree programmes and growing number of English medium courses. More...
By Sara Custer. Open English, the leading online English-language school in Latin America, this month began rolling out its services for the US market. On the back of its success in Brazil and Latin America, reaching over 300,000 students, the company aims to target Hispanic communities, the county’s largest growing minority group. More...
By Sara Custer. The demand for Spanish language tuition in China has “increased 30 fold” over the past 15 years but it is not being met with sufficient teachers and educational support according to Lu Jingsheng, the Chinese government’s National Coordinator for Spanish. More...
A group of the main Chilean universities travelled to the United Kingdom on an invitation from UK Universities, with the purpose of deepening links and greater opportunities for collaboration in areas such as research and innovation. This was a follow up mission to the 12 British universities that visited Chile last year to establish links with their counterparts. More...
A new, comprehensive metastudy of the role technology plays in higher education urges universities of tomorrow to capitalize on technologies that effectively support student learning, to embrace blended learning environments, and to customize degree programs to serve the needs of students in a digital age. Read more...
By David Gallagher. Disruption is coming to universities much faster than academics think.
Academics beware! A relentless and gathering force is laying siege to our comfortable ivory towers.
You say you are well aware of the threat posed to academic funding by the declining economic cycle. That may be, but I think the winds rattling our tower windows are being driven by a far stronger and more enduring force.
Soon we shall further open the door, and feel the icy blast of digital disruption. Not in our field, I hear you say. However, remember similar sentiments at Kodak, which also felt itself invulnerable to the advances in photographic technology brought about by digitisation and the internet. More...
The Ministry of higher education, scientific research and the training of executives and Microsoft Morocco signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday in Rabat providing for promoting and developing the use of new information and communication technologies in higher education.
Signed by the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Training, Lahcen Daoudi, and general manager at Microsoft Morocco, Samir Benmakhlouf, the agreement aims to facilitate access to new technologies in universities and to encourage creativity and innovation among Moroccan students. More...
By Joe Humphreys. Impossible to compete ‘unless you have got billionaires on your doorstep’.
University league tables are incentivising higher education institutions to chase international talent at the expense of local students from disadvantaged backgrounds, third-level analysts have warned. More...
By Sarah Martin. Graduates who move overseas will no longer be able to escape paying back student loans, in a new crackdown by the federal government to save more than $140 million. /https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
