Regional Report Takes Another Look at the MBA In a time when the global business environment is changing and business-school deans find themselves asking how best to reposition MBA programs if they are to survive, a new report focuses on the future of the master’s…
Regional Virtual library To Host World’s Oldest Texts Online A handful of historians are using the Internet to assemble a virtual library of thousands of clay tablets inscribed with the world’s oldest written language, cuneiform. Started in 1998, the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative has recently…
Argentina School System Suffers with Economy Argentina is facing its worst economic crisis in many years. Even the country’s system of education is suffering financial hardships. Proposed budget cuts threaten to greatly curtail the ability of universities to handle dramatic enrollment increases. With massive inflation,…
Brazil Professors End Strike Professors returned to teaching in January after staging a semester-long strike that closed federal universities and forced them to postpone the fall term. At least 42,000 faculty members went on strike last August to demand a pay increase and the hiring…
Regional Engineering Goes Global Old Dominion University, in conjunction with eight universities from Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland, recently created a master’s degree program in global engineering. This program allows students to spend one semester at Old Dominion in Virginia…