Most people in the UK believe international students should be allowed to stay in the country for two or more years after graduation, a new poll has revealed. The survey results were released by Universities UK (UUK) as it called on the government to allow foreign graduates to stay on for up to two years […]
Phil Cotton, vice chancellor of the University of Rwanda, often has to say “no” to well-meaning potential benefactors. “Lots of academic colleagues want to send me stuff they don’t need — old textbooks or out-of-date medical equipment that will last only a short time,” explains Cotton about turning down the offers from leading universities in […]
At Bush house in central London, formerly the home of the BBC’s World Service, finishing touches are being applied to King’s College London’s swanky new campus, which will be inaugurated come September. The building’s Portland stone exterior and marble interior, capped by a rooftop café with a fabulous view, make it a grand home for […]
The theme of this first London Letter is inspired by the editorial and cover story in the June issue of EducationWorld concerning the belated recognition by educationists of the importance of so-called “life skills”, alongside the teaching of academic and technical subjects. Valuable life skills cover a wide spectrum, but the most essential — and […]
Australia is poised to overtake the UK as the second most popular global destination for international students, according to a new analysis. The research, based on international student enrolment figures from round the world, says that it’s likely that Australia has already outstripped the UK in terms of the number of overseas students from outside […]
The schoolhouse in Vorsino stands next to the village chapel. Inside, a teacher is standing and reading to pupils who sit obediently in rows.
In another classroom, a different scene unfolds. Ogabek Masharipov, a 23-year-old with Teach for Russia, a programme that sends young college graduates to teach in rural schools, banters with pupils and begins […]
“Drawing on your political knowledge, explain why the Communist Party should exercise leadership over the country’s economy, armed forces, schools and all aspects of society.” So reads an essay question in this year’s gaokao, China’s university entrance exam which was held in early June. The exam is notoriously tough, but political flattery can help. Examinees […]
Eventually “all learning is going to happen digitally,” according to Jeff Maggioncalda, chief executive of online learning platform Coursera. But Maggioncalda isn’t rehearsing the tired trope that massive open online courses offered by the likes of Coursera will drive traditional universities out of business. Instead, he predicts that learning on university campuses will increasingly happen […]
When Omar returned home after 40 days in a boot camp run by Islamic State, it was obvious something had snapped. Once a quiet boy and a fan of SpongeBob SquarePants cartoons, 12-year-old Omar had become aggressive. He told his mother to stop wearing make-up, refused to greet her female friends and became angry when […]
Academics and students are warning of a major crisis in Venezuelan higher education as the country slips deeper into political chaos. Problems of inadequate funding, low salaries and limited access to journals are fuelling a brain drain of scholars right across Latin America, according to recent reports. But sector leaders say that, at a time […]
In his final engagement before resigning as finance minister last year, Emmanuel Macron, now the president of France, visited one of the country’s most prestigious higher education institutions. “He spoke to each and every start-up based at our business incubator centre, discussed their projects, and they all took selfies with him,” Jacques Biot, the president […]
China has been producing almost twice as many papers on artificial intelligence as the next highest-placed country in terms of publication volume for the field, a data analysis for Times Higher Education has shown. Data from Elsevier’s Scopus database provided to THE illustrate China’s huge drive on research in the area, with researchers in the […]
Emerson College seems a curious place for flyers promoting white supremacist organisation American Vanguard to appear. The university, in the heart of Boston, usually regarded as a liberal city, is ranked friendliest in the country towards gay and lesbian students.
These and other reasons may be precisely why it was targeted, says the university’s president Lee […]
South Korean universities are among world leaders when it comes to publishing research with industry, according to new data.
The Pohang University of Science and Technology, founded by Korean steel company POSCO in 1986, tops a table of universities publishing the highest proportions of their research output in collaboration with industry produced by Clarivate Analytics for […]
The UK college owned by FTSE 100 company Pearson Llc is aiming to be a “boutique university” that is limited in size, with plans to help the wider company implement its “strategic direction” in education rather than compete directly with universities. Roxanne Stockwell, principal of Pearson College London, spoke to Times Higher Education after the […]
China has long oscillated between the urge to equip its elite with foreign knowledge and skills, and an opposing instinct to turn inward and rebuff such influences. In the 1870s, the Qing imperial court ended centuries of educational isolation by sending young men to America, only for the Communist regime to shut out the world […]
When Aziz Amir was a young man, his mother died from an infection which should have been easy to treat. “She didn’t go to a hospital because she didn’t want to show herself to a male doctor,” says Amir, a trained cardiologist who now owns a private hospital in Kabul. Determined to give more Afghan […]
US university leaders have an “obligation” to lobby against proposed laws allowing the carrying of concealed weapons on college campuses, says the outgoing president of George Washington University.
In a podcast interview with Times Higher Education, Steven Knapp, who announced in early June that he will stand down as president of the institution next year, said […]
When US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders painted a picture of the perfect model of higher education, he didn’t reference Harvard, Yale or Stanford; instead he cited universities in Germany and Scandinavia. He held up their education systems as ones the US should emulate when pledging to make tuition free at public colleges and universities last […]
A rise in indigenous (aboriginal, equivalent to India’s scheduled castes and tribes) student enrolments in Australia should not obscure the need for “culturally appropriate and continuous support” to improve low completion rates, an academic has cautioned.
Recent federal government figures show that aboriginal and Torres Strait islander enrolments grew 7.6 percent in the first half of […]
The UK leaving the European Union (‘Brexit’) would create “a huge problem” for British universities in new barriers to European research collaboration while damaging higher education across Europe, according to senior officials in German education.
Universities UK (UUK) has been running a campaign to highlight the benefits of membership to the nation’s universities that will gain […]
Is it realistic for an academic programme to set out with the explicit aim of identifying, educating and, crucially, networking future world leaders, as a business school might do for future company chief executives? This is the ambition of Schwarzman Scholars, a new scholarship programme that is backed by American money, based in China and […]
First they came for the statues. Last year students in Cape Town sparked national protests by calling on the University of Cape Town (UCT) to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes, a Victorian imperialist who, like most Englishmen of his time, held racist views. The statue was removed but students were still angry. Many marched […]
In recent years, several top-ranked universities around the world have undertaken institutional collaborations and set up branch campuses. The Middle East and East Asia have been among the most popular destinations for branch campuses designed to create regional bases, drive cross-border flow of students and boost parent institutions’ global reputations.
Nearly three-quarters of academics in the Republic of Ireland say working conditions have deteriorated in the wake of mass job cuts and rising student numbers, says a recent study. Higher education funding shrank by 29 percent between 2007 and 2014, but student numbers have risen by 16 percent over the same period, according to Creating […]
Inside the red-lacquered door of No. 39 Wenhua Lane in central Beijing is an old-style single-storey home built around a small courtyard. Its owner, an elderly man in a vest, sits on an upturned bucket near a jumble of cooking pots; a pile of old cardboard rests atop a nearby shed. Next to the man, […]
More than half of undergraduates believe international students work harder than British students, a new study suggests. About 54 percent of just over 1,000 students polled on behalf of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA) believe that overseas students put more effort into their studies than those from the […]
China has overtaken Japan as Asia’s # 1 nation for producing top universities. While Japan’s University of Tokyo is the highest-placed institution in the Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2015, the country has lost ground overall, with the balance of power now tilting towards mainland China. Japan has 19 universities in the prestigious Top […]
Universities in sub-Saharan Africa must adapt to serve the growing number of students who no longer see their future in conventional salaried employment, says a report on graduate careers in the region. Research commissioned by the British Council indicates that the region’s institutions are still providing rote learning even as graduates’ focus shifts to entrepreneurship […]
Not everyone rolled out the welcome mat for Peter Mathieson, former dean of the faculty of medicine and dentistry at the University of Bristol, when he was nominated vice chancellor of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) two years ago. Chan Yuen-ying, director of HKU’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre, blogged that “if a medical […]
Although this might be news to third world “including India” politicians, enforcement of law and order is a precondition of quality education delivery.
In downtown Medelln “once a global symbol of drug-related violence in the cocaine trade” stands the bright yellow San Ignacio building. Built in 1803, this first campus of the University of Antioquia survived […]
On the desk of Zeus Rodriguez, the president of St. Anthony School in Milwaukee, a mini Republican primary is under way. A signed photograph of Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, competes for space with snaps of Rand Paul and Jeb Bush — all three of them presidential hopefuls. St. Anthony’s is popular among conservatives […]
An Israeli business school claims to offer its international students some of “the secrets behind ‘Jewish genius’ and Israeli success” as a pre-eminent “start-up nation”. Lahav Executive Education, which bills itself “the leading developer and provider of executive education in Israel”, is a unit of the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University, the country’s […]
Millions of Chinese have dreamt of attending Harvard University. Harvard Girl, a how-to manual published in 2000 by the parents of one successful applicant, was a national bestseller. Georgia Institute of Technology, a prestigious university in Atlanta, has enjoyed less name-recognition. Yet this is fast changing: the number of Chinese applicants to Georgia Tech has […]
Higher education companies in Brazil are lobbying the government to rescind new rules on financial aid they fear will stop students from enrolling for privately provided education.
A federal decree quietly published during the Christmas period tightened the criteria for the Student Financing Fund (FIES), one of the federal government’s two key initiatives to support individuals […]
Going into the offices of the National Co-ordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) in Oaxaca, a city 350 km south-east of Mexico’s capital, is like entering a world of rebellious teenagers rather than teachers. Graffiti is scrawled on the walls and posters denounce “state terrorism”. The trade union’s radio station, Radio Planton (Demonstration Radio), rails against […]
“It’s all to do with their brains and bodies and chemicals,” says Sir Anthony Seldon, the master of Wellington College, a posh English boarding school. “There’s a mentality that it’s not cool for them to perform, that it’s not cool to be smart,” suggests Ivan Yip, principal of the Bronx Leadership Academy in New York. […]
THE INDIANA JONES warehouse. That’s where William Pannapacker claims much of the output of students and staff in the liberal arts ends up — in the figurative obscurity represented by the seemingly infinite, but sealed off, government storeroom where the fictional archaeologist’s discovery — the Ark of the Covenant — is placed at the end […]
IN EAST ASIA, history textbooks are barometers of nationalism, and arguments over them are proxies for disputes between states. So it’s hardly surprising — at a time when territorial disagreements are breaking out all round the South China Sea and East China Sea — that the region is witnessing a new chapter in a long-running […]
IN THE UNITED STATES, suspicions about private, for-profit universities’ high cost and dubious quality abound. Elsewhere in the Americas, though, the story is far more positive.
After equally hectic expansion, Brazil’s for-profit institutions have three-quarters of the country’s higher education market — with fees kept low and quality rising fast. And since a degree boosts wages […]
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