Iran: Badges for my activism, with no legal recourse

I was previously a member of the Student Union and the Islamic Students Association at Birthmark University. I was the executive officer and editor-in-chief of the student Publication River which I wrote articles on culture and politics, critical of the government and in favor of democracy and human rights.

Security forces detained me in 2007. I was later released on bail and in the same year the graduate entrance examination. I should add that after my release, I continued student activism.

In 2008, the results of the entrance exams were posted on the internet and I reached the sixth highest score in the country. In the summer of 2008, officials of the Central Selection Committee contacted me. I was told to go to the Hera sat Office.

  Ultrasound Pour-Abbes, director of the Sanest Organization, the academic measurement bureau of the Ministry of Science and a professor of mathematics at Birthmark University, told me it was not a big problem and that the representatives of the Hera sat Office wanted Talking to me. I accepted and they met.

Hera sat Offices in most public facilities and all universities, and representatives of the Ministry of Intelligence and State Security equipment.

UK: Sussex overseas students leads visa limitations

The International Students' Office at the University of Sussex has been inundated with emails and inquiries from foreign students worried about the proposed clampdown on visas and work rights for non-EU students.

"We have an e-mail to all international students to inform them of the seriousness of the situation and ask them to comment," said a manager. "We are flooded with mails from students expressing their concerns about the proposals."

The measures include raising the English language proficiency requirement, tighter restrictions on right to work and their dependents non-EU international students’ right to work during the period of study, restrictions on graduates continue on to work and stricter visa application procedures for extending periods of study.

Students have the proposals shortsighted and unfair called.

Hard Lee Yong, a graduate student from South Korea, said: "I came to study the UK and get a work experience Now the government wants the post study work route completely close this my career plan risk I would not ...’t come all the way and spend so much money if I knew that I would have to look for a job elsewhere.”

Europe: Extra and improved superiority internships necessary

Internships as part of the education courses are increasingly seen as the key to a better integration of young people into the labor market. The transition from full-time education to employment is taking longer and more difficult for young people.

Lack of skills is thought to be one of the main reasons why young people for the work they do for to be selected.

The introduction of more high quality internships in higher education curriculum would certainly teach young people to the on-the-job training and experience that will help them when looking for work to get the finish.

However, to ensure that the training is successful, internships predominantly a learning experience that helps young people to gain practical experience and add practical skills to apply the knowledge and qualifications they have gained through either formal or non-formal education. They should never replace paid work.

Internships as part of higher education should include the following:

Europe: Time for superior education speculation is now

After years of leading the European Student Union, the umbrella organization for 45 national student unions from 38 countries, and is actively involved in the politics of higher education at different levels for the past six years, I am convinced that the momentum for investment in higher education is now. Ironically, only a few governments in Europe to realize it.

Over the past year we have worked very hard in the European Students' Union (USE) to the views of the European governments to change when it comes to the commodification of higher education.

We have student-organized protest from north to south and from east to west testify, as governments choose to raise tuition fees or administration, or to install penalties for extensive study. Some countries, however, cut back on tuition fees or maintaining a zero-student contribution attitude.

Germany had to cut along each budget line to make, but secure education, setting an example that investment in education is all about priorities and long-term prospects, it is not about the financial crisis, it is not about the Bologna process - that tells you your pastor.

UK: We experience deceived by TASMAC thought Indian students

I worked in Dubai for the past few years [Jag deep Singh said SALAD] and my company said a master's degree would give me better opportunities. Of TARMAC (Training and Advanced Studies in Management and Communications) in Pane, India, I deduced going to Canterbury Christchurch University in the UK, I also looked at.

  Tarmac marketing is very aggressive. Indians mortgage their homes to study in Britain. By closing the college we are left with nowhere to go.

  Tarmacs way you more than you need to stay.

For example, said they had my English was not good enough and that I had to take the RAP (English for academic purposes), which recognized their own way and nowhere else. There were 43 students in two classes in 2010, EMO. But the 43 passed only three. If you fail the exam you paid the examination fee of £ 75 and the second exam costs £ 200. Only 12 students passed the second examination.

Student applications go down now the tip of the iceberg

The number of home student applicants to UK universities have fallen significantly this year, with mature student applications the worst hit. Some university figures playing down the impact, but it can only be the tip of the iceberg to a decade of changes to university funding.

At the beginning of this month the UK's body for university admission applications, LUCAS, released figures indicating that applications for this year by an average of 8.7%. It can be a lot to do with the rising increase in tuition fees in England.

Almost every discipline in the face a decline in applications, with most victims in non-European languages ​​and technology, both of which were by almost a fifth.

The only subjects increased slightly was the 'line of medicine "that nursing, midwifery and physiotherapy. However, increased interest in this particular career is probably more to do with the fact that they have to pay the government-funded and no tuition fees, rather than a sudden philanthropic urge of the current stock of the English 18-year-olds.

Global graduate students from Africa struggles

Large numbers of postgraduate and international students in a university major requirement for successful evaluation and ranking. African universities, but now 'internationalization and cooperation with foreign institutions through various programs, both for research purposes and international recognition.

South African universities lead other African universities and this can be seen in cooperation between universities in South Africa and those in Europe and America. This is a welcome development. It is internationalization to study other African nationals in South Africa under pressure.

Another major role of internationalization is to create an environment for South African students to learn the cultures of other countries create - especially from African students who come from the nations north of the Southern African Development Community, CADS.

But this internationalization is undermined by excessive international student fees. Non-CADS students struggling to access the postgraduate scholarships despite all kinds of funding - local and international - for postgraduate studies in South Africa.