Editorial Note: Web links have been removed from this page due to outdated third-party web content. Regional Poverty Project Unites East African, UK Universities Ten universities have embarked on a multimillion-dollar campaign to end poverty in the communities around the Lake Victoria basin, one of…
Argentina School System Suffers with Economy Argentina is facing its worst economic crisis in many years. Even the country’s system of education is suffering financial hardships. Proposed budget cuts threaten to greatly curtail the ability of universities to handle dramatic enrollment increases. With massive inflation,…
Regional Videoconferencing Is a Big Hit in the East Videoconferencing as a means for distance education has begun to catch on in a big way in the East. Pioneered by Waseda University in Tokyo, a program called CuSeeMe is now used by students at 15…
Czech Republic New Arctic School Offers First Online Course The University of the Arctic, a new network of academic institutions and programs in the Arctic or “circumpolar” North, recently launched its first online course. The class, BCS 100 “Introduction to the Circumpolar World,” is comprised…
by Philip G. Altbach, Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College A key debate in the United States, as in other countries, relates to the cost of higher education, whether higher education is affordable, especially for…