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MALAYSIA: No distinctions in university rankings
A rating of 47 Malaysian universities and other higher education ins...
MYANMAR: Remembering the 1988 student generation
As another anniversary of the violent repression of Burma's (now Mya...
RUSSIA: Promoting higher education abroad
Faced with a declining share of the global education export market, ...
US: Responding to the 'brain drain' reversal
How can the purportedly slowing rate of H-1B visa applications to the US State Department since April 2010 be interpreted? A recent article in ...
PAKISTAN: Universities - the party's now over
On 11 September 2001 the world suddenly woke up to the fact that som...
SOUTH AFRICA: Career guidance for higher education
A career guidance campaign named after Nelson Mandela - and launched today on his 92nd birthday - aims to mobilise South Africans in the higher education and training sectors and in the professions...
UK: How a university scuppered next Facebook
Universities are providing more advice to entrepreneurial students but when the student start-up FitFinder was shut down, despite attracting five million users, critics saw it as a case study on ho...
UK: Fitfinder just too distracting
When FitFinder was launched at University College London this year it took students by storm. Other universities clamoured to have their own version. It had five million student followers before th...
AFRICA: Continental leadership centre launched
Africa's drive towards improving its governance has received a shot in the arm with the launch of a continental leadership training centre in Kenya's capital Nairobi. The African Leadership Centre ...
AUSTRALIA: A 14-year wait to resume his old job
Some 14 years since he last held the post, Simon Crean (pictured) ha...
GERMANY: Late approval of 'elite student' programme
The German government's new National Grants Programme for the Special...
FRANCE: Third wave of autonomous universities
Nearly 90% of French universities will be autonomous from next Januar...
INDIA: Vocational education upgraded
India's Education Ministry is revamping its vocational education pro...
GLOBAL: China and US attract world's top researchers
Top Chinese, North American and European universities are offering salaries and access to laboratories and facilities of a size and on a scale that universities in smaller countries cannot match, s...
EUROPE: EUR6 billion for research and innovation
European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Máire Geo...
GLOBAL: Social science expanding
Social science from Western countries continues to have the greatest global influence but the field is expanding rapidly in Asia and Latin America, particularly in China and Brazil.
In Sub-Saharan ...
UK-SWEDEN: Remote region co-operation
Universities in far-flung parts of England and Sweden have shared wa...
Russia: Nuclear scientist released in "spy swap"
Dr Igor Sutyagin (pictured), a Russian nuclear scientist and former ...
UK: Exploring fish invasion
Bournemouth University Professor Rudy Gozlan (pictured) is leading a...
GLOBAL: World-first research on bomb attacks
How would a city cope if suffered a catastrophic terrorist bombing a...