College students massacred one-by-one in Nigeria
The militant Islamist group Boko Haram means ‘Western education is a sin’ but it’s not clear yet if the group was behind the attack, the Christian Science Monitor…
International
Bulgaria pioneers new approach to listing universities
Petar Stanchev is the kind of student Bulgaria needs to keep. Last year, according to the country's Association of Private Universities, more than half of its college-bound students…
The imperative of higher-education reform: More debt, fewer jobs
America’s colleges and universities are an extraordinary asset for our nation, and the envy of the world. Our universities can claim a substantial amount of credit for the…
Is higher-ed door too easy to open?
London's Metropolitan University is taking legal action after losing its right to admit non-EU students, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
Fears in Taiwan over downside of education boom
When Hsu Chung-hsin went to university three decades ago he became part of a small elite in Taiwan. Now virtually everyone can enter higher education, the AFP reports.
U.S. colleges see opportunity as Brazil sends students abroad
U.S. colleges, holding onto a shrinking lead as the world's biggest educator of international students, are eyeing a promising new market in Brazil, an emerging economy with big…
Lady Gaga and U-Va.’s Helen Dragas
Helen Dragas, the rector of the University of Virginia’s governing board, probably never thought she would be linked in a headline to Lady Gaga, but she did it…
3 critical graduate school considerations for international students
Despite worries that the U.S. economy and the rising cost of higher education will lead to fewer students applying, one set of graduate applicants seems undeterred: international students,…
South Korea outpaces the U.S. in engineering degrees
Any eighth grader who wonders if anyone actually uses algebra should ask Hyungtae Lee, an electrical engineer who writes algorithms to build computers with the power of human…
MIT and Harvard pour $60M into “edX” online courses
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have joined forces to offer free online courses in a project aimed at attracting millions of online learners around the…