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There is a 'critical thinking' deficit in higher education. The chief aim of the higher education curriculum seems to be more about helping students absorb facts and less about helping them develo ...

As a new middle class rises in Brazil with aspirations for better education, it is finding lamentable conditions and low standards of education at many colleges and universities across Brazil. Tha ...

Police and education authorities are investigating allegations of mass cheating by international students at tertiary institutes throughout the country, reports ONE News ...

Universities in Japan are doing everything they can to attract students amid the aging society and decline in young people. One approach to lure applicants is to provide dormitories with state-of- ...

Jeffrey Beall is a metadata librarian at the University of Colorado at Denver, but he's known online for his popular blog Scholarly Open Access, where he maintains a running list of open-access jo ...

The amount of lecture and tutorial time in universities has barely changed over the past six years despite a nine-fold hike in annual tuition fees, a major study has found. It was revealed that st ...

The tertiary education union has vowed to launch a major campaign against university funding cuts in the lead-up to the federal election, as hundreds of students rallied last week in a national pr ...

The government owes $62 million in unpaid fees to its state universities, polytechnic colleges and teacher's colleges, Parliament heard last week. Director of Higher Education Martha Muguti disclo ...

Shanghai's universities are offering a variety of incentives such as subsidies for students willing to return to their home towns to work amid a tough job market. This is meant to ensure a steady ...

Admissions to public universities this year will hit an all-time high of 53,010 - a breezy 26% above last year's - thanks to the rapid expansion of college places, writes Rawlings Otieno for ...

Oxford University has announced the creation of a Margaret Thatcher Scholarship Trust, which will give young people who succeed "against the odds" the opportunity to study at the institu ...

A new report shows that 'Fly in, fly out' academics are a source of frustration for Chinese students taking UK degrees in their own country, writes Jack Grove for Times Higher ...

Universities in England are to receive a £50 million (US$76 million) cash injection intended to drive economic growth through "cutting-edge innovation and research projects". According t ...

Columbia University still offers a "whites only" tuition fellowship, which is restricted to "a person of the Caucasian race" and may be in violation of the US Constitution, a Manhattan Supreme Cou ...

The Department of Education has fined Yale University $165,000 for "very serious and numerous" Clery Act violations, stemming from sex offences that the Ivy League school failed to repor ...

A prominent university in South Africa will make learning the Zulu language compulsory for all incoming students starting next year, the first time the country's higher education sector has ever m ...

A man who used his IT expertise to launch cyber attacks on the websites of Oxford and Cambridge universities has been jailed for two years, reports the Press Association ...

South Africa's post-school education budget has been increased to R34.3 billion (US$3.8 billion) - growth of 8.6% over last year - Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande said las ...

Two new initiatives are under way in North Africa to promote regional and international higher education and research cooperation. The United Nations University is establishing a sustainable devel ...

Malawi's President Joyce Banda has constituted a special committee to investigate problems affecting the higher education sector and propose corrective measures.

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