The Democratic Republic of the Congo Tuition Hikes Spark Student Riots Twelve students were seriously wounded when police opened fire on approximately 500 demonstrators in the city of Lumumbashi. The students were protesting a tuition increase at universities in the southeastern portion of the country….
Brazil Professors End Strike Professors returned to teaching in January after staging a semester-long strike that closed federal universities and forced them to postpone the fall term. At least 42,000 faculty members went on strike last August to demand a pay increase and the hiring…
Australia Funding Crisis in Education Has Many Worried Last fall, students, faculty and university administrators around the country made it clear to the government: Make education a priority. The demand was backed by much of the business community, including media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who called…
France France to Make Postgraduate Diplomas more Practically Oriented France’s National Council for Higher Education and Research (CNESER) has adopted two reform measures aimed at complying with the Bologna Declaration. One of the new decrees will introduce a postgraduate Mastaire, while the second is geared…
by Robert Sedgwick, Editor, WENR There has been much hand wringing in the press and on Capitol Hill lately over delays and snags in the plans to reform America’s student-visa system. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, politicians and journalists alike have been clamoring for stricter…