03-03-2010

A new report by the British Council says American and British
universities have taken their longstanding relationship for granted
and calls for closer, more-strategic, and more-varied
collaborations between the world’s two most prestigious
higher-education systems.

The report,
“U.K.-U.S. Higher-Education Partnerships: Realising the Potential,”
was issued by the council, a British-government educational and
cultural…

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03-04-2010

Canadian academics had a mixed reaction to the federal
budget presented in Parliament on Thursday, which aims to
reduce Canada’s largest-ever deficit by phasing out stimulus
spending and cutting back in many areas. The budget did earmark
one-tenth of the remaining funds from last year’s economic-stimulus
package for higher-education infrastructure, research, technology,
and innovation.

“This budget sends…

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03-04-2010

For years India has watched other Asian countries power ahead to
develop their higher-education systems. China, Hong Kong,
Singapore, and South Korea have all spent billions to expand
access, wire campuses, build laboratories, and underwrite
international partnerships. Meanwhile, the world’s largest
democracy has limped along with an outdated, rigid, and
ill-financed higher-education system.

But could that soon change? At a higher-education conference
here this week that drew about…

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03-10-2010

Australia is moving to mend damage done to its higher-education
sector by tightening regulations that have enabled some low-quality
vocational colleges to prey upon international students looking for
an easy path to immigration.

A government-commissioned
review released Tuesday urges more support for international
students, coupled with stronger mechanisms…

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03-10-2010

Eight Chronicle reporters and editors won awards on
Wednesday from the Education
Writers Association for articles published in 2009. The prizes
recognized their work on two large projects, one on the life of
adjunct professors and the other on the rise of Asian higher
education at a time of retrenchment in the United States.

The latter project, “Asia Rising/America Falling,” received
first prize for a…

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03-17-2010

A bill that would permit foreign universities to set up
operation in India overcame a major hurdle this week when it was
passed by the prime minister’s cabinet. But the form its key
regulations will take remains unclear.

The measure, which has lingered for almost four years since it
was drafted, now has a stamp of approval from India’s top ministers
and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a longtime proponent of reform
in the country’s higher-education system. It must still…

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03-18-2010

Rapid recent growth in the number of private higher-education
providers in Britain offers potential threats as well as
opportunities for the predominantly public sector, according to a

new report published on Thursday by Universities UK, an
association of vice chancellors.

The report, “The Growth of Private and For-Profit
Higher-Education Providers in the UK,” was…

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03-21-2010

Krishna Shetty was burned once by American visa policies, and on
his second attempt to remain in the United States after his
studies, he was determined not to make the same mistakes.

A native of Mumbai, Mr. Shetty graduated in 2004 with a
bachelor’s degree from Clark University. He landed a job with
Fidelity Investments, anticipating that the company would be able
to sponsor him for a work visa—but that did not happen.

A reduction that year in the number of H-1B visas,…

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