Widening access ‘doesn’t have to be the enemy of excellence’
President of Canada’s York University warns against binary divide between regional and global universities
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President of Canada’s York University warns against binary divide between regional and global universities
Online college programs were supposed to be less expensive. With no physical campus to maintain, no limits on class sizes and the ability to recycle content, you'd think they should be.
Hong Kong Baptist University opted to keep a policy requiring students to take a three-part Mandarin course or pass a proficiency test in order to graduate despite student protests
U.S. President Donald Trump’s policy to ban travelers from five Muslim-majority countries is lawful, the U.S. Supreme Court said on 26 June.
The targets set in the Paris Agreement on climate change are ambitious but necessary. Failure to meet them will lead to widespread drought, disease and desperation in some of the world’s poorest regions.
A cleaner at the University of Bristol has been gifted £1,500 after students crowdfunded the money to send him to Jamaica.
Thirty providers already signed up to initiative, with another 30 interested in following suit
As the popularity of the Chinese language grows, there is urgent need to improve the quality of Chinese teaching as a foreign language in the UK higher education sector, participants at an international conference agreed Wednesday.
Irreplaceable audio and video recordings from the 20th century are languishing in university collections, deteriorating. Can they be saved?
Only about half of students who begin college actually complete their degree, which makes it increasingly difficult and expensive to brush the college completion problem under the rug.