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The appointment of Venezuelan-born Rafael Reif as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) last week raises an interesting question: why are so many Latin Americans excelling in the world’s best universities, but not in ...
May 19, 2012 at 22:52 | Source: Miami Herald
India Today partnered with The Nielsen Company for the third survey to determine India's top universities in the arts, science and commerce streams. Only universities that offer postgraduate courses in arts, science and commerce were considered ...
May 23, 2012 at 17:17 | Source: MSN India
PESHAWAR, May 26: The government would take every possible step to improve the standard of all universities in the province, said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain here on Saturday. Talking to a delegation of ...
May 27, 2012 at 03:15 | Source: DAWN Group
Diplomas from 210 foreign universities will now be acknowledged in Russia without an additional state evaluation, according to a government order published Friday by Rossiiskaya Gazeta. The selected universities, which represent 25 countries ...
May 27, 2012 at 17:20 | Source: Moscow Times
Cuban leader Raúl Castro’s push to carry out needed economic reforms has led to reduced enrollment at universities and departure of some foreign companies. Cuban universities have slashed enrollment by nearly 26 percent, apparently because of ...
May 16, 2012 at 22:26 | Source: Miami Herald
Universities New Zealand-Te Pōkai Tara and the Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education of Taiwan (FICHET) have signed an Arrangement of Academic Cooperation today. The Arrangement establishes a formal relationship between Universities ...
May 25, 2012 at 04:08 | Source: Scoop
Filipinos are increasingly eyeing Australian universities for further studies because of the interesting incentives they offer compared to universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. The Philippine director of IDP Education, an organization ...
May 24, 2012 at 15:15 | Source: Global Nation
Greenwich has been named the greenest university in the UK according to the green league published exclusively by the Guardian today. The People & Planet Green League 2012 has assessed the environmental and ethical performance of 146 ...
May 28, 2012 at 15:53 | Source: The Guardian
The Deputy Prime Minister will announce a sweeping “social mobility strategy” intended to break the grip of affluent middle-class families on the best-paid jobs and the most highly regarded university courses. In his most strident intervention on ...
May 22, 2012 at 05:59 | Source: Daily Telegraph
Less than two weeks after the Gillard Labor government declared that higher education had been “spared” from cutbacks in its 2012 budget, a new round of job losses has been revealed at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney. The sackings at ...
May 21, 2012 at 04:55 | Source: World Socialist Web Site