- Date
- 31 October 2013 - 16:40
Brazil's higher education challenges
The British Council’s John Bramwell describes how the booming South American economy faces complex challenges.
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- Universities and higher education
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- 25 October 2013 - 09:47
How Northern Irish students can study in the US
The Study USA programme gives scholarships to Northern Irish students to study business at US universities for a year. Páraic Rafferty writes about spending a year at Bellarmine University.
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- Universities and higher education, Study outside the UK
- Date
- 24 October 2013 - 10:15
It makes sense for Pakistani and UK universities to partner
As Pakistani universities face many of the same issues as those of their UK counterparts, institutional partnerships between the UK and Pakistan will help both countries achieve their goals.
- Tags
- Universities and higher education
- Date
- 15 October 2013 - 11:28
Digital education in China
Jeremy Chan, regional head of research and consultancy, explains what the Chinese digital education landscape looks like, and the opportunities and risks for foreign investors.
- Tags
- Universities and higher education
- Date
- 03 October 2013 - 14:47
Post-2015 agenda: why the UN must include higher education
When the UN set eight Millennium Development Goals for the world to reach by 2015, one was universal primary education. Jo Beall argues that the UN must include higher education also.
- Tags
- Universities and higher education, Global development
- Date
- 27 September 2013 - 09:41
Why being a graduate is anything but 'a failed experiment'
Aditya Chakrabortty (The Guardian) claims that university students are the ‘latest batch of guinea pigs in an experiment that has already largely failed’. John Bramwell disagrees.
- Tags
- Universities and higher education
- Date
- 19 September 2013 - 13:36
Where will massive open online courses take universities?
Janice Mulholland explores how the phenomenon of massive open online courses,or MOOCs, which offer free, large-scale access to courses via the web, may affect higher education.
- Tags
- Universities and higher education
- Date
- 03 September 2013 - 11:42
Effects of host country policy on transnational education
With more and more international students taking courses at overseas branches of UK universities, what role does the host countries’ policy environment play?
- Tags
- Universities and higher education
- Date
- 03 June 2013 - 17:20
Will technology make teachers obsolete?
Advances in technology offer the potential to expand access to education, but will online learning ever replace the need for teachers?
- Tags
- Universities and higher education, Schools
- Date
- 30 May 2013 - 11:55
Thousands more Libyan graduates to study in the UK
Amid security alerts, the British Council signed an agreement with Libyan officials which we hope will smooth the path of up to 5,000 Libyan scholars due to study in the UK each year.
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- Universities and higher education