Australia Flow of Foreign Students to Australian Universities Down Australian Education International, a wing of the Australian Department of Education, released figures in February that illustrated a dramatic slowdown in the number of new foreign students enrolling at Australian institutions of higher education. The number…
Belarus Students Forced to Support Presidential Candidate University students in Belarus claim that they may only take exams if they agree to sign a nomination form to support President Alaksandr Lukashenka for his re-election bid in March. According to the Belarusian Human Rights Center Viasna,…
Editorial Note: Web links have been removed from this page due to outdated third-party web content. Australia Second Overseas University Looking to Enter Australian Market Edinburgh-based Heriot-Watt University is seeking accreditation of its MBA degree programs in Australia. If successful, Heriot-Watt would become the second…
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…