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The election of Donald Trump caused panic across higher education, with many worrying his presidency would spell disastrous changes to the sector. It seems that some of those fears were well founded, as it has just been announced that Trump’s revised education policy includes plans to cut funding to the National Endowment for the Arts

Germany and Kenya have announced their intention to open a collaborative STEM-based university in the East African country. The Eastern African-German University of Applied Sciences will focus on science and engineering-based education, but will also offer entrepreneurship and TVET (technical and vocational education and training) teacher-training courses. It will follow the German model of being

News that major universities in the UK, including the University of Oxford, are considering opening branch campuses elsewhere in Europe, has been revealed in the Telegraph. Senior staff at Oxford University met French officials last week to discuss the possibility of opening a branch campus in Paris, breaking over 700 years of tradition for the

International master’s and PhD students will now be able to remain in Ireland for much longer, thanks to a new decree from the government. Under the country’s Third Level Graduate Scheme, students studying at a postgraduate level will now be able to remain in Ireland to seek employment, working up to 40 hours per week

On 8th January 2016, during an important speech in the State Council of China, highlighting China’s 13th Five-Year Plan on education(2016-2010) for nearly 3000 Chinese universities, Madam Liu Yandong quoted the latest QS World University Ranking results to demonstrated the international competitiveness of top Chinese universities have already been recognised globally. This makes QS the only world