India
The PIE News - Edufindme to roll out in Turkey and India
FPP Edu Media, the largest educational fair organiser in Latin America, is rolling out its popular social network recruiting site Edufindme in India and Turkey next month.
University World News - Policy think-tank set up ahead of annual BRICS summit
Academics from the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – this week established a policy think-tank ahead of the fifth BRICS summit to be held in Durban. South Africa called for strengthening research collaboration and academic exchange in the global South, and placing knowledge production at the heart of the emerging country bloc.
Decan Herald - African students often victims of racism, stereotyping
Twenty-three-year-old Richie Ronsard left his home in the Congo two years ago to fulfil his childhood dream of obtaining a degree from an established instutute in the India. The reality check was not long in comming.
Livemint - Five key education reform Bills likely to get Parliamentary nod
At least five key education-related Bills, including one that will allow foreign universities to open campuses in India and another to combat educational malpractices, will likely soon get passed by Parliament, signalling the first success for the human resource development (HRD) ministry’s efforts to reform higher education.
The Times of India - Reputation at stake
Why is India nowhere in the top-100 of the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2013? Education Timesspeaks to Phil Baty, editor, THE Rankings, to find out.
University World News - UK, France vie for research collaboration with India
Britain and France announced a host of higher education and research joint ventures with India during high-level visits to the country last month led by British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President François Hollande. Both leaders were accompanied by their higher education and research ministers.
New York Times - A Global Curriculum for a Globalized Era
Like many ambitious Indian students hoping to head overseas, 17-year-old Anmol Bhansali fretted about university admissions. That worry receded in December when he gained an early-decision acceptance to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Thomson Reuters - BRICK Report, Global Research Report
The report, “Building Bricks: Exploring the Global Research Impact of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea,” tracks global research publications, R&D spend and patent filings over a 10-year period to gauge benchmarks of economic innovation in the BRICK countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Korea.
The Chronicle of Higher Education - To Fix Its Education System, India Should Look to MOOCs
Today India and China are racing to expand and enhance their own higher-education systems, with the aim of becoming economic powerhouses of the 21st century. It is a race that India has been losing, with potentially disastrous consequences for its future economic growth prospects.
DNA India - More engagement, student exchanges needed with Indian youth
Emphasising the need for better engagement with Indian youth, who comprise nearly half of the country's population, the envoys of four leading developed countries on Saturday pushed for greater student exchange programmes with India.
University World News - Higher education needs to tackle bureaucratic barriers
Although Indian higher education suffers from many dysfunctionalities and the system overall is characterised by what some have termed "pinnacles of excellence in a sea of mediocrity", it does reasonably well on some international comparisons.
Fresh Business Thinking - Open to Export: UK and Indian partners agree more than 30 new deals
As part the Prime Minister’s trade mission to India this week, UK and Indian education and research institutions have agreed a raft of new joint ventures. Joint UK India research programmes have gone from £1 million in 2008 to over £100 million.
The PIE News - Cameron in bid to boost trade, bolster education sector, in India
British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has not made any concessions on student visa issuance for Indians – the UK’s second-largest student market, which has been notably impacted by reformed student visa legislation.
The Australian - Indian commencements dive again
India's on-again off-again love affair with Australian tertiary education has taken another twist, as resurgent interest from the subcontinent sputters out again.
The Times of India - DU signs exchange programme agreement with French institute
Delhi University and the Sciences Po, Paris, will be exchanging students soon for credit-based studies. The two universities have signed an agreement to open the current exchange programme with St Stephen's College to other DU colleges and departments.
Revived University World News - Nalanda University will balance local and global research
India’s Nalanda International University, which is being built close to the site of Asia’s ancient Buddhist centre of higher education, will be a global institution focusing on research, pan-Asian integration, sustainable development and the revival of Oriental languages.
The Times of India - Globe trotter: Emerging destinations overseas
As students approach a new academic session, Pratibha Jain, international education consultant, writes on emerging destinations overseas.
The PIE News - Sunaina Singh, EFL University, India
As Vice Chancellor of The English and Foreign Languages University – used by students across Asia for English language training – Sunaina Singh sheds light on the development of English learning in India, the emergence of Indian English, and how the university is helping the national drive to train 500,000 people by 2020.
The PIE News - What is the Indian perspective on top study destinations?
Overseas education has always been a booming industry, and in billion-plus and burgeoning India, its effects can only be reaped. Surplus demand for the best domestic colleges, and unrealistically high entrance requirements, set off around 400,000 young Indians overseas in search of a more rounded education each year.
The PIE News - India: UK masters “not valid” for government jobs
In a blow for UK universities, a panel of Indian educationalists has recommended that students with a masters degree from the UK take additional credits at Indian universities to be eligible for government jobs or higher study in India.
Economic Times India - India, France firm up pacts to further intensify cooperation
Reflecting growing congruence in their bilateral ties, India and France today firmed up a host of agreements to further intensify cooperation in diverse areas including science and technology, education, culture and transport.
BBC News - 'We don't feel welcome' - why aspiring students are thinking twice about the UK
The numbers of Indians studying in the UK fell for the first time in the last year, many say due to changes in visa rules. As David Cameron prepares to visit India, how is the issue affecting Indians' perception of Britain?
The PIE News - Canada: BC courts Chinese, Indian markets
Educators from British Columbia, Canada, welcomed major familiarisation trips from China and India this autumn, as the province pursued its “aggressive target” to double foreign enrolments in three years.
Hindustan Times - With Hollande visit, India's education diplomacy faces test
India's strategy of using education as a diplomatic tool faces a key test during French President Francois Hollande's visit this week, amid differences threatening an ambitious collaborative project both governments have cited to demonstrate close ties.
University World News - Can India learn from China in creating world-class universities?
India can learn much from countries such as China, Japan and the United States in order to create and run world-class universities, according to a panel of experts at a higher education conference held in New Delhi last week.
Oneindia Education - China Offers Huawei Scholarship To Indian Students
China Offers Huawei Scholarship To Indian Students.
The PIE News - Indian fair taps large expat market in Gulf
Indian, Emirati and international educators will go head to head at major education fair this month, in a bid to tap the large expatriate Indian community living in the Gulf.
The Economic Times - India needs new policies to nurture science, research and technology
India needs new policies to nurture science, research and technology.
Zawya - India's topmost education fair coming To U.A.E.
For the first time ever, India's most popular education event that is held across Asia is coming to the UAE -- the Great India Education Fair will be held in Sharjah from February 20 to 22, 2013.
The Times of India - Foreign universities to receive direct Indian Rupee payments
Western Union Business Solutions, a unit of The Western Union Company, has announced a new service that will allow universities and higher education institutions around the world to accept tuition payments in Indian Rupee.