Universities face a dual and potentially conflicting responsibility to address both the local demands of society based on the race …
New QS subject rankings
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or MIT dominate the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject. Harvard …
Finland: project to attract 100,000 int’l students
A new project out of Finland has set an ambitious target of attracting 100,000 international students to study at Finnish …
Internationalization of HE may be accelerating
Over the past months, since the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States …
Knowledge City to boost science education and research
In an effort to establish itself as a regional hub for higher education, science and technology, Egypt plans to set …
Domino effect
The potential impact of the recent ban on entry into the United States by citizens from seven Muslim countries, signed …
The most international university
ETH Zurich tops the 2017 Times Higher Education list of international universities, a table based on THE’s ‘international outlook’ component …
FutureLearn to offer 15,000 free certificates
UK-based MOOC platform, FutureLearn, has partnered with the British Council and the GREAT Britain campaign to offer 15,000 free certificates …
Report slams international university rankings
Institutions and governments should ignore the results of highly influential international higher education rankings, the UK’s Higher Education Policy Institute has charged. …
China and United Kingdom sign higher education action plan
During the annual UK-China Education Summit, the United Kingdom Secretary of State for Education Justine Greening and Chinese Minister for …