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,…
Austria EU to Step in to Solve Admissions Dilemma An EU working group looking into the mobility of students will be set up to investigate fears that upwards of 60,000 German students will flood the university system in Austria. The European Court of Justice ruled…
Regional Britain Plans Brain Drain Compensation Britain is working on ways to compensate African countries for the thousands of medical professionals who leave the continent to work in Britain’s national health service. There are no plans to provide outright financial compensation for the so-called medical…