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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.

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

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
 

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.