Regional Standardized Credits in the Far East Japan announced plans in March to standardize student-evaluation methods with universities in China and South Korea, in a possible first step toward a pan-Asian student-exchange program. Japan’s ministry of education says the plan will make it easier for…
Regional Erasmus Mundus a Success, but Future Funding Could be an Issue Europe’s Erasmus Mundus scholarship program, which was introduced as a means of attracting top research talent from around the world to European universities and to promote the European Union as a global ‘center…
Israel Academics Oppose West Bank University A total of 250 academics representing universities and colleges in Israel have signed a letter that was sent to the Council for Higher Education urging it not to recognize the college in the West Bank town of Ariel as…
Russia Research Output Drops Off the Charts According to a recent report, Russia is no longer even close to being a world leader in science research. The Global Research Report on Russia, by Thomson Reuters, reveals that the country’s annual research output has fallen from…
Regional Building Regional Research Capacity The Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) launched an experimental program in November aimed at growing the number of West and Central African faculty members with doctoral degrees. Horizons Francophones, as the initiative is known, has a principal objective of…