• 牛津招收有钱“特别生”有损声誉

    13-08-30 近期发布的一份内部调查报告指出,牛津大学通过招收有钱的特别生来谋取商业利益的行为会有损学校的声誉。 Oxford University risks undermining its reputation by accepting wealthy foreign students with poor grades for purely commercial reasons, an internal r...

  • 斯诺登透露美国曾网络攻击清华大学

    13-06-30 Tsinghua University in Beijing, widely regarded as the mainland's top education and research institute, was the target of extensive hacking by US spies this year, according to information leaked by Edward Snowden. 据香港《南华早报》6月23日报道,据爱...

  • 南非某大学将祖鲁语设为必修课

    13-05-17 A leading South African university says it will make Zulu language classes compulsory for all first-year students from next year. 南非一所主流大学称,祖鲁语明年将成为所有大一新生的必修课。 Some 80% of people in KwaZulu-Natal speak Zulu The decision...

  • 斯坦福大学举办机器人聚会

    13-04-19 When I walked onto the Stanford University campus this week and into the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab, I was greeted by a short, gray robot waving his two long arms -- he was looking for a high-five. 这个星期,我来到了美国斯坦福大学校园,当...

  • 英国大学男生比例下降

    13-03-24 英国大专院校招生服务机构负责人表示,申请大学学位课程的男生比例下降或让男生在教育方面处于弱势地位,从而影响其社会生存状况,因为大学毕业生的收入通常都高于未接受高等教育的普通员工。 UK universities are setting targets to recruit more men as male studen...

  • Massive Open Online Courses 网络公开课

    13-02-27 MOOCs ( Massive Open Online Courses ) are the latest addition to the acronym-bound lexicon of higher education, and quite possibly the most significant of them all. They represent a new generation of online education, freely accessible on the intern...

  • 全球教育排行榜 芬兰居首

    12-12-03 The UK's education system is ranked sixth best in the developed world, according to a global league table published by education firm Pearson. The first and second places are taken by Finland and South Korea. 根据培生教育公司公布的全球教育排行榜,英...

  • 英国大学抗议扩招贫困生

    12-12-02 Forcing universities to admit rising numbers of teenagers with lower entry grades risks setting them up to fail, one of Britain's most prestigious institutions has warned. 英国一家最具声望的高校提醒称,强迫大学接受越来越多的贫困学生入学会让大学最终...

  • 美宇航局必须重视纳米科技的研发

    12-10-17 The United States may lose its leadership role in space to other countries unless it makes research and development funding and processes -- especially in nanotechnology -- a renewed and urgent priority, according to a new paper from Rice University...

  • 2012-2013世界最佳大学 加州理工学院蝉联榜首

    12-10-13 英国泰晤士报高等教育特刊3日公布2012-2013世界最佳大学排行榜报告,美国加州理工学院蝉联第一名。亚太地区国家大学的排名上升,北京大学从去年第49名升到46名,清华大学更劲升19名,从71名升到52名。 The University was ranked 20th on a 2012-2013 list released Th...