Regional African Universities Packed to the Rafters, Falling Down According to a feature-length report in the New York Times, Africa’s best universities, “the grand institutions that educated a revolutionary generation of nation builders and statesmen, doctors and engineers, writers and intellectuals,” are collapsing. The article…
Regional Science Degree Spans the Globe Despite being thousand of miles apart, students in Ireland, the US and Australia will tackle the world’s most pressing problems together and in the same classroom. Students at the universities of Dublin City, Colorado and Wollongong are the first…
Regional English-Taught Degrees in Asia Increasingly Common A growing number of university programs in Asia are being taught in English, according to a paper from the London-based Observatory on Borderless Higher Education. According to the research organization, East Asian universities are teaching programs in English…
Regional European Ministers Pinpoint Academic Mobility as Top Priority Many challenges to the mobility of staff and students still exist, education ministers from the 46 countries involved in the Bologna Process – designed to harmonize Europe’s higher education systems – have stressed. Obstacles to mobility…
Israel Reforms Eroding Once Great Universities Although Israeli universities rank as the fourth best in the world – according to the number of citations in leading scientific journals — budget cuts and a cadre of emigrating academics means once-great universities are now living on borrowed…