Student victory in debt crisis
Mexican students overseas have won a battle with their government to safeguard their grants from cuts in public spending programmes. When the Mexican exchange rate and foreign debt crisis broke in...
Mexican students overseas have won a battle with their government to safeguard their grants from cuts in public spending programmes. When the Mexican exchange rate and foreign debt crisis broke in...
As India embraces western affluence, more and more of its people want to learn English, the lingua franca of thought and commerce. But is their neglect of India's mother tongues a tragic error, asks...
ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Readerships: Chris Durston, principal lecturer, reader in history; David Worral, senior lecturer, reader in English literature. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Readerships: The...
HIGHER and further education's wish for 1998 must be that the planning blight of 1997 will end. 1997 was a year of waiting - for the election, for reports, for white papers and for money. It was also...
How far have national systems gained or slipped since 2013-14? What are the vital statistics of the typical top 400 institution? Dominance of US institutions in the top 400 is evident, although...
Tony Durham talks to the president of Commonweath of Learning, Gajaraj Dhanarajan (below) about the triumph of distance learning in Asia For a child whose school journey began with a two-mile pre-...
Malaysia has urged more Australian students to study at its universities. Education minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that the recent "twinning" of Australian and Malaysian institutions had...
Pop Internationalism
The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy
Management Worldwide - Asian Management Systems
All countries in the Asia-Pacific region now rank "internationalisation" high on their economic agendas and see universities as playing a crucial role. According to Ken McKinnon, former president of...
The Impact of Privatisation
WHAT do an Egyptian PhD, a Greek MBA, a Bulgarian MSc and a Singaporean postgraduate in engineering have in common? They are just a few of the many postgraduates who have taken part in the British...
The Early Modern City 1450-1750 - The Growth of the Medieval City from Late Antiquity to the Early 14th Century - The Later Medieval City 1300-1500
Following the change of government it is timely to reflect on overseas student trends since 1980. Latest figures from the Department for Education and Employment show that since 1982 the number of...