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BJP RENEGES ON ITS 2014 POLL PROMISE WITH LACKLUSTRE EDUCATION BUDGET
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley allocated Rs 85,000 crore US 13.26 billion for education, with Rs 50,000 crore for schools and the rest for higher education... READ MORE›
PROFESSOR GREEN: WHITE WORKING-CLASS BOYS BECOMING MORE DISENGAGED
While almost 40 percent of young people overall now progress to higher education, the figure for white boys from the most disadvantaged backgrounds is just 10 percent ... READ MORE›
COLLEGE PRESIDENT WARNS COLLEAGUES AFTER POST STORY REVEALS STATE PROBE
I wish to remind you of the College's State of Affirmation of Integrity, she wrote... READ MORE›
MORE AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES ARE BUILDING $1 BILLION ENDOWMENTS
In 2015, Stephen Blyth, then chief executive of Harvard University's endowment, was making 15 million, according to tax filings... READ MORE›
TAX BILL DROPS CONTROVERSIAL PROVISIONS ON COLLEGE LOANS, TUITION WAIVERS
If true, this is welcome for the millions of students who use these benefits every year to help them finance a college education, Hartle said... READ MORE›
TEMPLE PROFESSOR STUDYING RISING TUITION FEES DONATES $100,000 PRIZE TO STUDENT AID FUND
A Temple University professor who won a 100,000 prize for research into the rising cost of college will donate the money to a fund she established to... READ MORE›
SENATE TWIST ON NEW ENDOWMENT TAX COULD SPARE SOME U.S. SCHOOLS
A few dozen private college endowments could dodge a bullet with the sweeping tax bill approved by the Senate early Saturday morning after a last-minute amendment... READ MORE›
OVERSEAS STUDENTS TURNING AWAY FROM US UNIVERSITIES
The study showed that 290,836 international students entered the US in the fall of last year, compared with 300,743 at the same time 2015... READ MORE›
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NUMBER OF UNIVERSITY DROPOUTS DUE TO MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS TREBLES
The number of students to drop out of university with mental health problems has more than trebled in recent years, official figures show... READ MORE›
THE 10 BEST CITIES IN THE WORLD TO BE A STUDENT
The 10 best cities in the world to be a student - in pictures... READ MORE›
TOP 100 WORLD UNIVERSITIES 2016/17 QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS
A ETH ZURICH SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 9 A A A 9... READ MORE›
NEW RULES REQUIRE SOME NOVA SCOTIA PRIVATE COLLEGES TO WARN STUDENTS OF DIM JOB PROSPECTS
A number of programs at Nova Scotia colleges have had conditions imposed on them by the province, according to documents obtained under freedom of information laws... READ MORE›
ENGLAND HAS HIGHEST UNIVERSITY TUITION FEES IN INDUSTRIALISED WORLD, SURVEY FINDS
Throughout the OECD, graduates earn on average double over their lifetime than those whose highest education was secondary school, it finds... READ MORE›
IRELAND TO LIST CHINESE AS NATIONAL EXAM SUBJECT IN 2022
The education minister made the announcement at a joint conference of Confucius Institutes of Ireland and Britain... READ MORE›
WHY DO IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS GET TAX BREAKS? HOW THE RICHEST US COLLEGES GET RICHER
According to a study by Stanford University scholar Charlie Eaton, universities are using their endowments to haul in more than 19 billion in tax subsidies every year... READ MORE›
UC BERKELEY PROFESSOR FIRED NEARLY TWO YEARS AFTER SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLAIMS SUBSTANTIATED
Tenured faculty members have typically avoided serious consequences after the university found they violated policies, resulting in them stepping down only after negative media coverage... READ MORE›
LABOUR WARNED OVER TUITION FEES CUT
Shadow universities minister Liam Byrne said the student finance system is going bust under the current system... READ MORE›
CHINESE UNIVERSITIES CLIMB WORLD RANKINGS AS UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO SLIPS TO LOWEST POSITION EVER
The University of Tokyo, Japan's top institution, fell seven places to No... READ MORE›
DUTERTE APPROVES FREE STATE COLLEGE FEES OPPOSED BY BUDGET CHIEF
The president said the long-term benefits of education outweighed the very heavy budgetary implications, Deputy Executive Secretary Menardo Guevarra said at a televised briefing in Manila... READ MORE›
KENYA BOARDING SCHOOL ATTACK LEAVES SIX DEAD
He returned to find the boy, but he was not at the AIC Lokichogio Secondary School at the time... READ MORE›
SURGE IN FOREIGN STUDENTS MAY BE CROWDING AMERICANS OUT OF ELITE COLLEGES
The only Ivy League schools with single-digit international shares in 2014 were Dartmouth College 8 percent and Cornell University 9 percent ... READ MORE›
ARSON CAUSED FIRE THAT KILLED NINE SCHOOLGIRLS
Education minister confirms reports of attacks around the country, including in Mombasa and Kisumu besides Nairobi... READ MORE›
TRUMP SHOULD PITY THE POOR PHD
Part-time adjuncts are now the majority of the professoriate and its fastest-growing segment... READ MORE›
CLASHES IN CAPE TOWN AS STUDENTS DEMAND FREE TUITION
Students in the South African city of Cape Town have clashed with police during protest demanding free education across the country... READ MORE›
ALGONQUIN COLLEGE TOOK $6.2M HIT ON FAILED SAUDI CAMPUS
But critics quickly attacked the school's decision to open a campus in Saudi Arabia, saying the country's leaders abuse human rights and discriminate against women... READ MORE›
'WASTING TIME ON THE INTERNET' COURSE OFFERED AT ELITE US UNIVERSITY
'Wasting Time on the Internet' course to be taught at University of Pennsylvania... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA'S ONLY ASSYRIAN SCHOOL IS GIVING REFUGEES A FRESH START
Together with its senior campus, St Hurmizd Primary says it is the only school in the Western world that teaches the Assyrian language and faith... READ MORE›
BUILDING COLLAPSES LEAVING AT LEAST ONE TRAPPED IN RUBBLE
Officials and the school say that the explosion may have been caused by a natural gas explosion... READ MORE›
THESE ARE THE 10 BEST UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD (AND 4 ARE IN BRITAIN)
US and UK lead the way for having the best universities in the world, according to QS World University Rankings... READ MORE›
FACULTY AT ONTARIO'S 24 COLLEGES TAKES STEP TOWARD MONDAY STRIKE
The union representing faculty at Ontario's 24 public colleges has set a strike deadline of 12 01 a.m... READ MORE›
SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENTS CLASH WITH POLICE IN CAPE TOWN OVER TUITION
Mr. Nzimande has said this week that increases would be capped at 6 percent for 2016, but the South African Students Congress is opposing any increase... READ MORE›
RICH COLLEGES' ENDOWMENTS TARGETED BY TRUMP BACKER IN U.S. HOUSE
Trump's Team Wants Wealthy Colleges To Spend More On Tuition Breaks... READ MORE›
UK S OSBORNE SAYS DANGER OF VERY BAD OUTCOME ON GREECE INCREASING BLOOMBERG
Indeed, they note, one of the most vocal arguments against such controls came from the education minister himself... READ MORE›
HOW TRUMP CAN MAKE AMERICAN SCHOOLS GREAT AGAIN
What Trump has proposed is student debt relief, in the form of a bankruptcy discharge, where the universities will bear a portion of the loss... READ MORE›
INDIAN WOMEN PUSH BACK AGAINST CAMPUS CURFEWS
Delhi University is a sprawling open campus that is neither walled nor gated... READ MORE›
POLICE ARREST SUSPECT IN DEATHS OF WHITEFISH LAKE FIRST NATION TEENS
Dylan laboucan, 17, and cory grey, 19, were found shot to death on northern alberta reserve in july... READ MORE›
TRUMP TRAVEL CURBS POSE REVENUE CHALLENGES FOR U.S. COLLEGES
Of the 1,043,839 international students in the United States during the 2015-16 school year, 17,354, or 1.7 percent, came from the countries affected by the order, IIE data shows... READ MORE›
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DEAN TO QUIT OVER GUN LAW
But for Frederick Steiner, dean of the Texas School of Architecture, guns should not be allowed on university grounds... READ MORE›