http://www.mail.com/int/subjects/14590-higher-education.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/int/subjects/14590-higher-education.html http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2102444-mais-non-french-universities-teach-english.html PARIS (AP) — In France, there's a brewing debate over whether to speak anglais in universite. The National Assembly on Wednesday was taking up an education reform bill that would allow public universities to hold some courses — like science or economics classes — in English, a plan that has alarmed language purists and the political far-right alike. ... Wed, 22 May 2013 15:32:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2102444-mais-non-french-universities-teach-english.html 2013-05-22T15:32:41Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2102654-czech-president-settles-dispute-gay-rights.html PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech president says he will no longer block a university professorship for a gay rights activist who had been critical of him. Milos Zeman has been under fire after suggesting over the weekend that his reason for denying the promotion to Charles University literary historian Martin C. Putna was his participation at a gay festival. ... Wed, 22 May 2013 12:35:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2102654-czech-president-settles-dispute-gay-rights.html 2013-05-22T12:35:40Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097970-czech-president-dispute-gay-rights.html PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic's controversy-courting new president is under fire for refusing to grant a university professorship to one of his critics and hinting that it is because the man is a gay rights activist. In what is normally a formality, Czech presidents appoint the country's professors after they are nominated for the top title by their un... Mon, 20 May 2013 17:08:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097970-czech-president-dispute-gay-rights.html 2013-05-20T17:08:26Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2081736-security-forces-tear-gas-protesters-ivory-coast.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Security forces in Ivory Coast used teargas to disperse hundreds of students demonstrating Monday against overcrowded classrooms and empty libraries at the country's largest university, sending at least two students to the hospital with injuries, according to witnesses. The demonstration had been timed to coincide with an appea... Mon, 13 May 2013 15:02:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2081736-security-forces-tear-gas-protesters-ivory-coast.html 2013-05-13T15:02:20Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/health/2065818-teen-immigrant-angst-factor-bombings.html CHICAGO (AP) — Anna Tabakh didn't know a word of English. At age 5, a stranger in a strange land, she was en route with her parents from the Soviet Union to a new home in Kansas City, Missouri. But she understood the intent when security guards at a New York City airport suspiciously eyed her stuffed animal, a rather rotund plush toy pig. Tabakh, now 27, ... Mon, 06 May 2013 12:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/health/2065818-teen-immigrant-angst-factor-bombings.html 2013-05-06T12:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2061102-puerto-rico-university-official-resigns.html SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The president of the University of Puerto Rico's main campus has resigned just days after the presidents of the university's 10 other campuses did the same. Friday's announcement by Ana Guadalupe comes amid a flurry of resignations to protest the governor's reform of the institution's board of directors. A new board president ... Fri, 03 May 2013 15:37:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2061102-puerto-rico-university-official-resigns.html 2013-05-03T15:37:50Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2034390-blackstone-founder-creates-300m-china-scholarship.html BEIJING (AP) — A U.S. private equity tycoon announced Sunday the establishment of a $300 million endowed scholarship program in China for students from around the world, and billed it as a rival to the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Stephen A. Schwarzman, founder of the private equity firm Blackstone, said he would give $100 million as a personal gift an... Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:44:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2034390-blackstone-founder-creates-300m-china-scholarship.html 2013-04-21T13:44:51Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2031250-boy-scouts-propose-to-lift-gay-ban-youth.html NEW YORK (AP) — Searching for compromise on a divisive issue, the Boy Scouts of America is proposing to partially lift its long-standing exclusion of gays — allowing them as youth members but continuing to bar them as adult leaders. The proposal, unveiled Friday after weeks of private leadership deliberations, will be submitted to the roughly 1,400 voting... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:17:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2031250-boy-scouts-propose-to-lift-gay-ban-youth.html 2013-04-19T22:17:33Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2018420-london-school-economics-denounces-bbc-tactics.html LONDON (AP) — One of Britain's leading academic institutions, the London School of Economics, is accusing the BBC of putting students at risk by using them as cover for a covert reporting trip to North Korea. The school says BBC's decision to send three TV journalists to the secretive communist state in March to shoot a documentary without governmental pe... Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:14:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2018420-london-school-economics-denounces-bbc-tactics.html 2013-04-14T17:14:22Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/2004334-with-pope-francis-its-prime-time-jesuits.html NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, the Society of Jesus has faced the same struggles to find priests that have plagued the wider Roman Catholic Church. The Rev. Chuck Frederico, one of the priests who evaluate Jesuit applicants, says he usually heard from five a week, or fewer. Then, last month, the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio stepped out on the balcony of ... Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:29:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/2004334-with-pope-francis-its-prime-time-jesuits.html 2013-04-08T04:29:27Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/1984724-greece-passes-education-reform-amid-protests.html ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's parliament has approved measures allowing the government to close or merge roughly one of every five faculties at universities and higher education colleges. The landmark reform triggered student protests and dissent within the coalition government. Police used tear gas during brief clashes with student protesters outside pa... Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:15:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/1984724-greece-passes-education-reform-amid-protests.html 2013-03-28T16:15:22Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/uk/1967474-oxford-librarian-sacked-harlem-shake-video.html LONDON (AP) — Oxford University students are rallying behind a librarian who they say was unfairly sacked after students filmed themselves performing the "Harlem Shake" in a college library. Laura O'Brien, president of the Middle Common Room at the university's St. Hilda's College, says students are investigating Calypso Nash's dismissal. The Middle Commo... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:20:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/uk/1967474-oxford-librarian-sacked-harlem-shake-video.html 2013-03-20T15:20:43Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/markets/1960670-rise-latino-population-blurs-us-racial-lines.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Welcome to the new off-white America. A historic decline in the number of U.S. whites and the fast growth of Latinos are blurring traditional black-white color lines, testing the limits of civil rights laws and reshaping political alliances as "whiteness" begins to lose its numerical dominance. Long in coming, the dem... Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:43:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/markets/1960670-rise-latino-population-blurs-us-racial-lines.html 2013-03-17T12:43:35Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1957288-3-students-set-fire-to-themselves-senegal.html DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Three students set themselves on fire on the campus of Senegal's largest university on Friday to protest changes in the way credits are being counted in the college's geography department, witnesses said. All three survived after their friends threw sand on them, and only one was admitted to the hospital with burns on his arm and a p... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:54:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1957288-3-students-set-fire-to-themselves-senegal.html 2013-03-15T17:54:51Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1943132-researchers-stonehenge-started-huge-graveyard.html LONDON (AP) — British researchers have proposed a new theory for the origins of Stonehenge: It may have started as a giant burial ground for elite families around 3,000 B.C. New studies of cremated human remains excavated from the site suggest that about 500 years before the Stonehenge we know today was built, a larger stone circle was erected at the same... Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:27:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1943132-researchers-stonehenge-started-huge-graveyard.html 2013-03-09T16:27:10Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1929750-obama-nominates-3-to-cabinet-level-posts.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama signaled his willingness to tackle climate change with his pick of Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, one of three major appointments he announced Monday. A 25-year veteran of environmental policy and politics, McCarthy has worked for Republicans and Democrats, including Obama's presidential... Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:16:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1929750-obama-nominates-3-to-cabinet-level-posts.html 2013-03-04T20:16:57Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1909138-emory-presidents-essay-draws-criticisms.html ATLANTA (AP) — In recent years, Emory University made a point to acknowledge how the school was once led by slave owners, but an essay by the school president has renewed debate about racial sensitivity on campus. Emory President James Wagner recently wrote about the three-fifths compromise on slavery in 1787 to talk about the value of finding common grou... Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:34:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1909138-emory-presidents-essay-draws-criticisms.html 2013-02-22T22:34:18Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/1905540-top-universities-to-offer-free-online-courses.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More of the world's elite universities are joining the rush to offer "massive open online courses," but it's still uncertain whether so-called MOOCs will help more students earn college degrees. Coursera and edX, two of the leading MOOC providers, on Thursday announced major expansions that will roughly double the number of universiti... Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:06:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/1905540-top-universities-to-offer-free-online-courses.html 2013-02-21T13:06:40Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1891632-german-education-chief-replaced-plagiarism.html BERLIN (AP) — Germany has sworn in a new education minister after her predecessor stepped down over claims that she plagiarized parts of her doctoral thesis decades ago. In a low-key ceremony Thursday, President Joachim Gauck formally accepted the resignation of Annette Schavan, who denies the plagiarism allegations and has vowed to contest her university... Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:36:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1891632-german-education-chief-replaced-plagiarism.html 2013-02-14T13:36:26Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1889200-white-house-releases-college-cost-website.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is releasing a website designed to help college-bound students have a better sense of how much their education will cost and how much they can expect to pay in student loans. President Barack Obama promised the tool during Tuesday's State of the Union speech and Education Department officials published the data early Wedn... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:27:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1889200-white-house-releases-college-cost-website.html 2013-02-13T16:27:52Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1879782-german-education-minister-quits-plagiarism-case.html BERLIN (AP) — Germany's education minister resigned Saturday after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarized parts of her thesis — an embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel's government as it prepares for elections later this year. Merkel said she had accepted "only with a very heavy heart" the resignation of Annette... Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1879782-german-education-minister-quits-plagiarism-case.html 2013-02-09T19:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1803324-class-2012-diploma-dilemma-europe-grads.html PARIS (AP) — Estelle Borrell knew she wanted to work in law since she was a teenager, when she interned at a court in Versailles, France. "The lawyers in their black robes, they were like gods to me," said the 24-year-old Parisian. Borrell studied law at Vienna University, where she dreamed of putting her passion into practice at an international organiza... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1803324-class-2012-diploma-dilemma-europe-grads.html 2013-01-07T11:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1776894-hungarian-students-protest-education-reforms.html BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian high school and university students went ahead Wednesday with protests against changes in the education system despite the government's acceptance of some of their demands. In Budapest, the capital, several thousand students gathered outside the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, dissatisfied with the concessions announced b... Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1776894-hungarian-students-protest-education-reforms.html 2012-12-19T20:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1756484-hungarian-students-protest-scholarship-cuts.html BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hundreds of Hungarian university students are marching in Budapest to demand more funding for higher education and to protest government plans to drastically cut state scholarships. The students blocked traffic on Petofi Bridge in south Budapest on Monday evening and marched toward Kossuth Square, where Parliament is located. Crit... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1756484-hungarian-students-protest-scholarship-cuts.html 2012-12-10T18:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/1755306-spanish-universities-protest-cutbacks.html MADRID (AP) — Rectors from about 50 state-run universities across Spain protested Monday that government spending cuts were choking third-level education and would set back the country's recovery. The academic leaders each read out a statement simultaneously saying the university system was under threat and cutbacks in research would lead to an "irreparab... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:11:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/1755306-spanish-universities-protest-cutbacks.html 2012-12-10T15:11:00Z