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Pakistan: HEC to strengthen women universities in country 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) would continue to extend its support for strengthening the women universities across the country with special emphasis on capacity building of the newly establish...
Welsh universities offering students courses at ‘bargain basement’ rates 27 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Swansea Metropolitan and the University of Wales, Trinity St David are among those institutions accepting reduced entry requirements from prospective undergraduates Universities in Wales are offering...
UBC and China’s Chongqing government sign landmark academic cooperation agreement 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
The University of British Columbia has concluded an unprecedented, five-year strategic cooperation agreement with China’s Chongqing government, opening doors to increased academic and research collabo...
USQ Vice-Chancellor’s International Postgraduate Scholarships in Australia, 2014 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
The University of Southern Queensland offers Vice-Chancellor’s International Postgraduate Scholarships in Australia. Students must be intending to study full-time, on-campus at USQ Toowoomba, Springfi...
Auburn to become a smoke-free campus 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Auburn University will be joining nearly 1,200 colleges and universities county-wide, banning smoking on campus. A new policy that takes effect Aug.21 vows to transform the university into a smoke-fre...
University of Waikato launches MOOC on data mining 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
The first MOOC (massive open online course) from a New Zealand university was launched by the University of Waikato this week in one of the most exciting fields of contemporary computer science – data...
University of Calgary plans to scrap 19 programs 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
By Jeremy Nolais University of Calgary officials will seek permission from the province to scrap 19 programs, ranging from music theory to applied physics. The offerings have seen low or no enrolmen...
PhD Fellowship Programme for Developing Countries at UNU-IIGH, Malaysia 27 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am
United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health is funding five PhD fellowships at UNU-IIGH in Malaysia. Applicants from developing countries are eligible for applying this fellows...
UC Berkeley places third in world university ranking 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
By Megan Messerly University of California Berkeley placed third in the Academic Ranking of World Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. American universities took the top four spots in the ...
Lakehead University launching new law school to ease shortage of lawyers in northern Ontario 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
The inaugural class of Ontario’s first new law school in decades starts this fall in a province already teeming with new lawyers, but these students will be steered away from the big-city fray. As la...
