Low Student Employment Driving India’s Outward Mobility

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India is home to the world’s second-largest population of prospective higher education students and, at the current rate of population growth, may surpass China in becoming the new number one within the next decade. There are two major demographic trends underpinning this. Firstly, India has the world’s largest youth population, with 356 million 10-24-year-olds (over

The Evolution of Higher Education in Russia

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The release of the second edition of the QS University Rankings: Emerging Europe & Central Asia (EECA) sees Russian universities holding their position at the top of the rankings for 2015/16. For the second year in a row, Lomonosov Moscow State University and Novosibirsk State University are ranked number 1 and number 2 respectively in

Is It Really a Case of Higher Education vs. Further Education?

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Policy Exchange, an influential UK think tank, has suggested the government redistributes more than £500 million from university funds to further education colleges, in a report released this week. The report – Higher, Further, Faster, More: Improving higher level professional and technical education – begins with a quote taken from King’s College professor, Baroness Alison