Russia Supplemental Science Research Funding Promised to Universities Despite increased funding in recent years, Russian science has not yet recovered from a near collapse in the 1990s and the consequent exodus of thousands of researchers to the West, according to a recent article in Nature…
Regional Students Berate European Commission for Setting Graduation Targets too Low The European Commission has set a goal of graduating 40 percent of college-age people from higher education by 2020. Students have described that as “a problem rather than an ambition.” Ligia Deca, president of…
Regional CIS Countries Sign Cooperation Agreement with Norway A new program for cooperation between higher education institutions in Norway, Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia will be launched this spring. The initiative is aimed at contributing to the renewal and internationalization of higher…
Regional Erasmus Mundus a Success, but Future Funding Could be an Issue Europe’s Erasmus Mundus scholarship program, which was introduced as a means of attracting top research talent from around the world to European universities and to promote the European Union as a global ‘center…
Russia Research Output Drops Off the Charts According to a recent report, Russia is no longer even close to being a world leader in science research. The Global Research Report on Russia, by Thomson Reuters, reveals that the country’s annual research output has fallen from…