Science news articles about 'higher education'

Iraq has put science and technology at the centre of a proposed five-year, US$1 billion higher education plan.

... and Sustainable Development, marketing expert Maurizio Catulli of the University of Hertfordshire, UK, suggests that higher education and policy makers should lead ...

Sian Lewis charts the ups and downs in donor funding for higher education in developing countries over the last half century.

With higher education returning to the aid agenda, SciDev.Net examines the successes, challenges and lessons to be learnt.

Professor Paul Clark, Vice Chancellor Southern Cross University comments on the Higher Education Review from the perspective of a regional University.

New tactics in the drive to improve higher education in Africa were put forward at a UNESCO meeting.

... need for symptomatic treatment. "A possible explanation is that higher education may be associated with greater occupational demands ... for symptomatic control. An alternate possibility is that patients with higher education are likely to be better advocates for their health ...

... . Therefore, the increasing proportion of students applying to higher education with combined academic and vocational qualifications ... that the government is targeting in its efforts to widen participation in higher education. In spite of this, these students are still being failed ...

While higher education has helped women narrow their long-running wage gap with men ... be a reminder for us not to believe gender inequality in higher education is a problem of the past. "There's been a lot of attention ...

Three Nature articles display mixed feelings about the success of Pakistan's higher education reforms.

Collaborative networks are crucial to improve the state of African higher education, says innovation expert Mammo Muchie.

... and easy but ultimately short-sighted solution for higher education, according to Delaney, is to turn to students and families ... not with the mindset their predecessors had in the '80s and '90s, where if higher education is cut, state appropriations will eventually ...

... -ITI) have announced the new ASME-ITI Higher Education Risk Standard. "A Risk Analysis Standard for Natural and Man-Made Hazards to Higher Education Institutions" is designed to identify, analyze ...

... , researchers continue to investigate ways in which teaching standards might be maintained or even improved in higher education. This is particularly apposite given the current ...

... . But a thesis from the University of Gothenburg shows that the good intentions of creating a more democratic, broader and effective higher education system also affect individuals, institutions ...