The University of the People, a non-profit, tuition-free online university based in the US, has received a $1m donation from Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss foundation supporting projects in sustainable development and education, towards scholarships for Syrian refugees. The university delivers full, accredited degrees online. Beckie graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in Japanese, during which she lived in Kyoto for a …

The number of Indian students has decreased in the last few years in the UK following a clamp down on bogus colleges, but the British government is wooing students by increasing scholarships, a British High Commission official said on Friday. “If you compare the figures with what was there 3-4 years ago, the numbers have come down. It is because …