Regional Using Social Media to Increase International Enrollments The global explosion in access to the internet has had a transformative effect on the way internationally mobile students – currently 3.5 million strong – educate themselves about study opportunities abroad, according to a four-year global research…
Russia Not Enough Students Russian universities are facing a shortage of students for state-funded places this year, due to the economic crisis and a demographic crisis that economists predict could lead to the loss of 100,000 university teaching positions by 2020. Experts at the Russian…
Regional European Commission Launches Portal for Qualifications Framework The European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning (EQF) has been designed to provide a common reference framework to assist in the comparison of the various different European national qualifications systems, frameworks and levels. The portal is being…
Kazakhstan Kazakh Schools Getting A Kazakh Facelift Many Russian-language schools in Kazakhstan are being turned into Kazakh-language schools for the new academic year beginning on September 1. It’s all part of what can be called the “Kazakh-ification” of a nation seeking to restore its national…
Regional Group Announces Rules on the ‘Approval’ of University Rankings New rules for evaluating how university rankings are conducted were announced recently in Paris at the Unesco Global Forum, “Rankings and Accountability in Higher Education: Uses and Misuses.” The new Ranking Audit Rules were adopted…