Regional University Rankers Ranked; North America Fares Poorly Researchers from the University of North Carolina concluded in a recent study that popular U.S. and Canadian university ranking guides are of an inferior quality to their European and Australian counterparts. The study, which appeared in the…
By Alyson Arnold, Manager of Education and Training, WES How WES Workshops Help Keep You on Top of a Dynamic Process Colleges and universities in the United States are today hosting over 500,000 students from countries all over the world. Because students arrive from such…
Austria EU to Step in to Solve Admissions Dilemma An EU working group looking into the mobility of students will be set up to investigate fears that upwards of 60,000 German students will flood the university system in Austria. The European Court of Justice ruled…
Regional Britain Plans Brain Drain Compensation Britain is working on ways to compensate African countries for the thousands of medical professionals who leave the continent to work in Britain’s national health service. There are no plans to provide outright financial compensation for the so-called medical…
Belarus ‘Politicized’ Students to be Purged; Minister to Appoint Heads of Private Schools Education Minister Alyaksandr Radzkou announced to the Chamber of Representatives Oct. 3 that one of his ministry’s duties is to ensure that the educational process is not “politicized,” Belapan news agency reported….