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Foreign students shocked at college closures in Australia
Sydney - Thousands of foreign students studying in Australia were left shocked and angry on Friday after the collapse of four private colleges in Melbourne and Sydney. Students, many of them just weeks from graduating, turned up for class, only to fi...

[Posted on : 2009-11-06 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

Student protests spread across Austria - Summary
Vienna - Thousands of student demonstrated in Vienna and other Austrian towns Wednesday, calling for better conditions at their universities. Protesters at Vienna University issued an open letter to the government, calling for free access to higher e...

[Posted on : 2009-10-28 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

Student protests spread across Austria
Vienna - Student protests in Vienna have spread to other Austrian universities, media reported, as students were preparing for demonstrations later on Wednesday to call for better conditions at their institutions. For the past days, protesters have s...

[Posted on : 2009-10-28 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

Israel Railways plans to turn carriages into mobile lecture halls
Tel Aviv - Concerned that rail passengers might not find their journey stimulating enough, Israel Railways (IR) has hit on the novel solution of turning its carriages into traveling lecture halls. According to the Ma'ariv daily Sunday, IR is to use a...

[Posted on : 2009-10-25 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

First acting school in the Palestinian territories
Ramallah - Twenty-two-year-old Jasmin is visibly proud to be a student at the first professional acting school in the Palestinian territories. The young Palestinian woman with a green nose ring and her 10 fellow students have just completed their fir...

[Posted on : 2009-10-22 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

Learning Russian all the rage in Taiwan since Communism fell - Feature
Taipei - When Li Hsi-mei was studying Russian at university in the 1970s, it all seemed rather pointless, as anti-Communist Taiwan had no ties with the Soviet Union. Today, however, Russian language courses are popular in Taiwan, with many students e...

[Posted on : 2009-10-21 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

US universities hike tuition fees despite recession
Washington - Tuition fees at US universities have risen sharply over the past year as college boards hoped to recoup some of their losses from the country's deep recession, according to a report by a private education group Tuesday. The College Board...

[Posted on : 2009-10-20 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

Australian degrees: Would you like a visa with that? - Feature
Sydney - Coupling paper qualifications with green cards has helped turn Australia's higher education sector into an industry bigger than tourism. Linking diplomas with permanent residency visas ha...

[Posted on : 2009-10-14 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

Austrian universities bemoan surge in German students
Vienna - Heads of Austrian universities on Tuesday complained about increasing numbers of German students and called for compensation payments from Germany. Austrian universities are attractive for foreign students because there are no entrance exami...

[Posted on : 2009-10-13 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

Egyptian students protest university ban on full-face veil
Cairo - Egyptian students on Wednesday protested their exclusion from university dormitories because they wear the niqab, a veil that covers the full face. The issue has come to the fore following a newspaper report quoting Sheikh Mohammed al-Tantawi...

[Posted on : 2009-10-07 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

 

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