Denmark Severe budget cuts spark student protests in Denmark Tens of thousands of students from more than 40 student organizations gathered in central Copenhagen and Aarhus, to protest against the US$1.3 billion education cuts planned by the Løkke Rasmussen government over the next four years….
Regional Live where you learn This week, Kaplan International Colleges and Bournemouth University officially opened a £100m, 16floor, live-learn facility on the university’s Lansdowne campus. The center will house teaching and learning facilities for students attending the pathway college KIC opened at Bournemouth in 2013….
Finland Helsinki Slashes University Staff The board of the University of Helsinki, the oldest and largest university in the country, is to cut 1,200 out of 8,200 staff posts, a measure of how Finnish universities are being hit by the effects of the government’s austerity…
Regional Internationalization High Priority in Europe International recruitment is driving overall enrollment growth at universities across Europe, according to the European University Association’s Trends 2015 report. Internationalization is among the highest priorities for EU higher education institutions, it also found. Of 451 universities surveyed for…
Regional Branch Campuses Low Priority for European University Internationalization Plans Opening branch campuses is now the lowest internationalization priority for European universities, according to a recent study, prompting suggestions that the much talked about market may have reached its peak. In a survey conducted by the…