Belarus State Ideology Textbooks Distributed to Schools First-grade students were given state-ideology textbooks titled ”My Motherland Belarus” in September as a present from the president, according to Education Minister Alyaksandr Radzkou. Radzkou described the textbook as “an easy-to-read, quality product” created at President Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s…
Australia Australian Universities Plan India Test Australia’s largest online learning platform, Open Universities Australia (OUA), is getting ready to make its offerings available overseas for the first time, with plans for a trial to run in India in 2006. OUA’s internationalization plans come on top…
Bahrain New University for Women Opens A new university for women has opened in Bahrain. Classes at Bahrain’s Royal University for Women (RUW) began Oct. 15. The programs that RUW is offering include: foundation in art design, bachelor of education, bachelor of commerce and bachelor…
Regional University Rankers Ranked; North America Fares Poorly Researchers from the University of North Carolina concluded in a recent study that popular U.S. and Canadian university ranking guides are of an inferior quality to their European and Australian counterparts. The study, which appeared in the…
By George Brown A Brief Critique of Australian and American Approaches to Qualification Verification and Authentication Credentials are everywhere, and are important signifiers of an individual’s competence and/or bona fides. Each day, we use PIN numbers to access our accounts, sign letters to authenticate documents,…