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India to boost education in Pacific through ADB

Published On: 11th March 2010

By Lakshmi Anil

Offering a helping hand to improve access to higher education in the Pacific region, the Indian government has decided to offer a grant of $1 million through the Asian Development Bank.

Related Tags: Asian Development Bank, Asia Pacific Education, Indian Educational Grant

MIT injects $90mn in Media Lab

Published On: 11th March 2010

By Lakshmi Anil

Fast-paced technological inventions often outgrow the media laboratories that house them, however big they may be, within no time.

Related Tags: MIT Media Lab, MIT

Report: Fifth of Oz pvt. colleges are ‘visa factories’

Published On: 10th March 2010

By Pallavi Kulkarni

According to a new report on education sector nearly 20 percent, i.e. one-fifth of the private colleges in Australia are actually ‘visa factories’. Former MP Bruce Baird who had submitted the report has revealed that it is the fact that 20 percent private colleges are 'permanent residency factories' in Australia and these institutes have affected the education industry very badly. 

Related Tags: Australian Education, Australia Private Colleges, Visa Factories, Australian Education Scam, Bruce Baird, Julia Gillard

Education cut: Protests gather momentum in US

Published On: 06th March 2010

By Pallavi Kulkarni

Students angry over budget cut in funding for schools, universities and community colleges gathered at the university campuses across the country in US. A large number of students and teachers took part in the rally as March 4 was their National Day of Action for Public Education.

Related Tags: Government Buildings, University Campuses, Protestors, Education Sector, Budget Cuts

Australia gets proactive for upgradation of education quality

Published On: 04th March 2010

By Ishpreet Bindra

Having received lot of negative publicity from the racist attacks in the country on foreign students, Australia has done a serious rethink. With an intention of reviving the quality of education it was known for in the past and helping its education industry to recover from the pitfalls, the Australian government has announced a new approach to enhance the quality of education.

Related Tags: MHRD, Australian Government, Australian Education Sector, Australian Education Scam

US budget cut in higher education worries experts

Published On: 27th February 2010

By Pallavi Kulkarni

When many major countries are increasingly spending highly on quality education even in the time of great recession, big economies like US and UK are making budget cuts in their higher education sectors. Many UK industrials and academic leaders fear that budget cuts in higher education may lead to many losses in the country as a result of losing the educational edge it currently holds against many developing countries.

Related Tags: US Education, UK Education, John Aubrey Douglass, Education Funds, Berkeley's Centre for Studies in Higher Education

Obama feels US students need to gear up on career front

Published On: 25th February 2010

By Ishpreet Bindra

Stressing the need for states to take effective measures to make American students career and college ready, US president Barrack Obama, addressed the need for setting higher standards in primary and secondary education, while bringing to fore the pitfalls of the ‘No Child Left Behind’ Act. He was speaking in an address from Washington.
 

Related Tags: National Governors Association, Barack Obama, US Education Policy, No Child Left Behind Act

China bans Oxfam from educational institutions

Published On: 24th February 2010

By Lakshmi Anil

Accusing the Hong Kong branch of the British-founded agency Oxfam with a hidden political agenda, China's education ministry has ordered all its colleges to alienate the organization and thereby prevent it from making recruitment of college volunteers.

Related Tags: Chinese Educational Institutions, Oxfam Hong Kong, Chinese Government, Oxfam

Oz govt. keeping close tabs on its education biz

Published On: 24th February 2010

By Lakshmi Anil

As part of its efforts to check the indiscriminate proliferation of dubious educational institutions in the country, the Australian government has initiated a series of reformatory measures to tighten its education industry norms for monitoring the functioning of those institutions that leech on the immense revenue-generating potential of the Australian education business sector.
 

Related Tags: Australian Government, Australian Education Sector, Australian Education Scam

Matrix Greentech: Israel’s first ‘clean tech’ college

Published On: 23rd February 2010

By Pallavi Kulkarni

While the world is just waking up to the need for clean technologies to secure depleting natural resources like energy, water, air, soil etc, Israel has been busy developing clean technology for years now. In this context, Mediatech, a subsidiary of Matrix which is an information systems company, has joined hands with GreenAgenda to establish Israel’s first clean technology college, Matrix Greentech.  The college is set to commence its course in clean technology by the end of April this year.

Related Tags: Mediatech, Matrix Greentech, Matrix, GreenAgenda, Clean Technology

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