Russia University Sector in Need of Major Reform Says Rector The rector of one of Russia’s top universities has called for sweeping reform of the country’s system of higher education. Speaking at a recent conference, Yaroslav Kuzminov said that the recent unrestricted growth of tertiary…
Regional R&D Investment in Developing World Increases Significantly as a Percentage of Global Total The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has just released its annual report on science and technology investments, and from its findings, it appears the developing world has increased its…
Kazakhstan US Academic Held on Money Smuggling Charges Victor A. Skormin, a professor of electrical engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton, was held in detention at an airport and waited weeks for a court hearing on charges that he attempted to…
Editorial Note: Web links have been removed from this page due to outdated third-party web content. Regional Erasmus Mundus Budget Quadruples The European Parliament in October agreed to boost four-fold the budget for one of the European Union’s flagship academic mobility programs, which aims to attract…
Regional University Attendance Continues to Rise Students are attending university in ever increasing numbers. In 2006, 56 percent of school-leavers in industrialized countries went on to university, up from 37 percent in 1995, according to the annual OECD Education at a Glance report published in…