Regional European Universities Perform Well in Global Ranking According to the results of the sixth Times Higher Education ranking of world universities, based on a survey of academics and graduate employers worldwide, European universities have improved versus their American peers in the last year. The…
Russia One University, Two Journalism Schools with Very Different Politics Moscow State University is widely considered to be one of Russia’s best universities, and it currently hosts two schools of journalism, one for those wishing to operate independently of the government and other influences, and…
Regional 2 Million Students Study Abroad Through Erasmus By mid-2009, the European Union’s Erasmus program for mobility and cooperation in higher education had allowed two million students to study outside of their country of residence, the European Commission said in July. The data on Erasmus…
Regional Corruption Threatens Central Asia’s Universities Students and families have long denounced widespread corruption in the tertiary education systems of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. This phenomenon has left many deserving – but poor – young people excluded, while also degrading the value of university and…
Regional Europe Lays Groundwork for Global University Ranking The European Union has begun the process of creating its own university-ranking system by selecting a consortium of research groups to carry out a feasibility study “on the design and testing of a new multidimensional global university…