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Budget 2013 invests $40 million over the next four years in marketing and promoting New Zealand's international education industry, as the country targets doubling the value of international education to $5 billion by 2025. 'This $40 million inves...
Globally, international education today faces many challenges. At the top of these challenges, however, is one key problem. We have a crisis of identity. The voting public, politicians and most civil servants do not understand who we are, what we ...
The recent announcement from the California State University System regarding its embrace of edX massive open online courses (MOOCs) is interesting and depressing at the same time. As with many aspects of the MOOC phenomenon, it comes packaged wit...
For the first time an Australian university is using the 'crowdfunding' system to attract money from the public to cover all or some of the costs of research. Eight academics at Deakin University in Melbourne have turned to a crowdfunding site cal...
For the second year running, the network of 24 research-intensive universities called Universitas 21 has published a report on global rankings of national higher education systems rather than their universities. A release accompanying the report c...
Inside Higher Ed is today releasing a free compilation of articles -- in print-on-demand format -- about massive open online courses, or MOOCs. The articles aren't today's breaking news, but reflect long-term trends and some of the forward-looking...
Queensland IE, The UK Situation Revisited, Surveys and IEU regular: Around the World in 80 Words. Issue 30 of PIER's International Education Update available now!
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Monday that she expects to have an automated system in place this month to close the gap that allowed a man from Kazakhstan charged with attempting to cover up the Boston Marathon bombings to en...
