Education

Comparing Orban to Putin might once have been hyperbole. But when Fidesz seems determined to expel a high-quality educational institution from the country on the...

Japan's anachronistic universities are struggling to adapt to a globally competitive marketplace for students, faculty, funding, and jobs.

As someone who studied in three countries and has spent most of my academic career in a fourth, I have a keen personal sense of how important it is for higher...

In the scramble to address the deepening refugee crisis, it seems that policymakers, big tech companies, and advocates are turning to the smartphone to find a...

Among those who have been to university, engineers are dramatically overrepresented almost everywhere across the world and in every jihadist group. Here's why.

Young people were at the heart of the Syrian Arab Spring, and they have borne the brunt of the instability that has followed. Here are the stories of some of those...

The failure of the broader U.S. public to encounter...

In Turkey, where there has been a rise in Islamic religiosity, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, founder of the pro-Islamist Development and Justice Party (AKP), is...

Stanley Hoffmann, who died last week at the age of 86, was both a magisterial scholar of the century of total war and a fugitive from it.

Education is the single most important driver of economic growth, yet the new UN Sustainable Development Goals provide no measurable guidance to improving...

The United States used to have excellent international studies programs, which helped support the country’s diplomatic power and stabilizing global role. But as...

Today, orphanages are common in many parts of the world. But a look at young people who spent their childhoods in institutions in Romania reveals just how...

In that relentless vacuum, nothing moved. No news came in or out. No phone calls, no emails, no letters, no ideas not prescribed by the regime. Thirty missionaries...

Over the last few decades, governments have increasingly sought to reclaim indigenous artifacts from museums abroad. Yet inappropriate calls for repatriation should...

Boko Haram, whose name roughly translates to “secular education is a sin,” has been committing heinous attacks across Nigeria's north for years, frequently...

Disability is a national and global issue, and it is time for a comprehensive approach that includes education and development.

By some measures, the BRICS have squandered their years of plenty. Even as they poured money into building dynamic economies and gaining global power, they...

The mania for ranking universities has fostered a guild mentality that discourages real-world relevance among scholars and, in turn, violates academia's social...