Colleges angle for influential foreign students like Bo Guagua
His academic record was spotty, but as he applied for graduate studies in the United States, Bo Guagua would have looked like quite a catch to many universities,…
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Shaken by USC shooting, Chinese students still seek US colleges
Shaken by the shooting deaths of two Chinese students near the University of Southern California, China is unlikely to slow its pace of sending its students to U.S.…
‘Garage universities’ are bracing for school reform
There are no ivy-covered walls at Alfredo Pérez Guerrero University. No quad. No soccer fields. The entire campus fits in four small, rented buildings on the fringes of…
Universities to pay fees for eMailing links while faculty inboxes are monitored
Sending hyperlinks via eMail could prove a pricey proposition for two Canadian universities after officials agreed to a controversial copyright policy that could also leave professors’ electronic messages…
In China, private colleges, universities multiply to meet higher-education demand
Hundreds of private colleges and universities have opened in China in the past decade in response to soaring demand for higher education in the world’s most populous nation,…
Report: 1,000 Iranian college students change majors to nuclear physics
Five days after a nuclear scientist in Iran was assassinated, more than 1,000 students in Tehran’s universities announced their intention to apply or change their major to nuclear…
University admissions site launches 3D platform
new application developed by the University of Rochester, UK, aim to give prospective students a more transparent and interactive viewof what it is like to study and live…
In India, the challenge of building 50,000 colleges
Here's a job most 27-year-olds never get: starting up a new university—from scratch, reports the Christian Science Monitor.
Pitching U.S. liberal arts in China
There is, in American higher education, a rush to recruit students from China, which has tripled the number of students it has sent to U.S. institutions in the…
EU data protection reform to replace national laws
The European Union wants to replace a mishmash of national laws on data protection with one bloc-wide reform, updating laws put in place long before Facebook and other…