An estimated 200,000 protesters brought India's financial capital Mumbai to a halt Wednesday as they demanded set quotas for government jobs and colleges amid unemployment and reduced farm incomes. Many businesses in the southern part of Mumbai were closed and traffic was diverted as the ...
Monthly allowances given by parents to students who entered private colleges in the Tokyo metropolitan area last spring dropped for the 16th straight year, a survey has showed. The average allowance per month for first-year students at school away from home fell by ¥1,000 from ...
The University of Tokyo was crowned the nation’s top university for teaching and learning environments in a first-ever Japan ranking by the Times Higher Education magazine.
In a few weeks, my daughter, an American-Japanese dual national born, raised and mostly educated in Japanese in Japan, will begin her first year of higher learning at her dream school — Middlebury College, one of America's oldest liberal arts institutes. Located in the midst ...
My senpai (senior) is always safety-oriented, so he would always take a scholarship over an entrance examination to enter college.
A former student on trial for rape in a case that has cast a harsh light on the culture of an elite New Hampshire prep school testified on Wednesday that he had a consensual sexual encounter with his 15-year-old accuser that stopped short of ...
Is U.S. President Barack Obama's proposal to make community college free mostly an exercise in political brand management?
The annual unified college entrance examinations began across the nation on Saturday, with nearly 560,000 applicants and a record-high 849 public and private schools taking part. The two-day exams mark the start of this year's contest among students seeking entrance to four- and two-year university ...
In the U.S., vague bans on "offensive" language and other "politically correct" measures that most people think of when they imagine college speech codes are increasingly being joined by quarantine policies that restrict all student speech, regardless of its content.
With calls growing for universities in Japan to generate graduates well-prepared for the era of globalization, an increasing number of them are establishing "international dormitories" where Japanese students live together with foreign students. Kenichi Tasai, a 20-year-old sophomore at International Christian University in Mitaka, Tokyo, ...
