Unleashing Mass Access — Tallying Collateral Losses

During the Cold War, scientists working at the laboratories of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology produced ideas and inventions, such as distant early- warning radar and satellite-tracking systems, designed to help the U.S. prevail over the ...

The rich world is worrying about skills shortages, especially at the upper levels of their economies. The causes are many such as a demographic cliff in Japan and some European countries, significantly reducing the numbers of university-age people, ...

So now we know. After months of hype and speculation, the winners were announced last month. These were not the Oscars, but the World Reputation Rankings, the world's definitive index of academic prestige, according to its publisher, Times Higher ...

The latest eminent person to castigate Indian higher education for its low quality is President Pranab Mukherjee, who cited the lack of any Indian university in the top 200 of the global rankings at the 10th convocation of the National Institute of ...

Quacquarelli Symonds, one of the major groups conducting international rankings of universities, has banned universities from recruiting people to participate in the peer review surveys conducted for the evaluations of institutions. QS accepts ...

American accrediting agencies are increasingly evaluating foreign colleges and programs that are unattached to U.S. institutions. Proponents of the exportation of U.S. accreditation argue that it has a role to play in improving the quality of ...

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently chastised Indian universities for having no institutions in the top 200 of the global higher education rankings. He sees this poor showing as an indication of the low quality of Indian higher education.

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