Relatively high tuition fees paid through income-contingent loans like those in the UK represent the best hope of maintaining well-funded and accessible higher education, the author of the OECD’s annual report on education has claimed. Speaking at the London launch of Education at a Glance 2013, Dr Andreas Schleicher said the salary premium enjoyed by

Governments all over the world think that innovation is the key to future economic success. But how do you make an economy innovative? Three organisations – the World Intellectual Property Organisation, part of the UN system, as well as Cornell University and French business school INSEAD – have published a new analysis of the factors

You have probably noticed a plethora of recent news stories about China’s growing influence in Africa. And while many of them involve dams, mines and building roads, a surprising number seem to mention higher education. Kenneth King, an African studies expert and emeritus professor at Edinburgh University, is fascinated by this development, and explores it

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