 | Financial Times - Education |
| |
Current Headlines | Most Read | Archives |
|
| |
 |
GMAC and FBI expose test cheats (08 July 10:40) |
| It has all the makings of a summer blockbuster....intellectual property theft, suspects fleeing the country, the FBI. But this is not the latest Dan Brown novel, but a tale of educational te... |
| |
|
Royal Ballet School matine, Royal Opera House, London (08 July 12:05) |
| The annual Covent Garden matinée by the Royal Ballet School sees an audience of friends and family, teachers and supportive ballet-goers anxious to spot the new Dowell or second Seymour. So... |
| |
|
Harvard expands in Asia (07 July 09:30) |
| Harvard Business School, in conjunction with the main university, has unveiled its plans to open two offices in China, in Shanghai and Beijing. |
| |
|
Valuable lessons from outside the classroom (07 July 12:55) |
| Custom dictates that in this, my final journal, I should exclaim: "It seems like only yesterday that I began my MBA". However, this cliché does not accurately characterise my mood. For it s... |
| |
|
From barracks back to blackboard (07 July 12:55) |
| When Sean Arnette, a former first lieutenant in the US Air Force, led missions out of Osan Air Base 48 miles south of the Korean demilitarised zone the last thing on his mind was applying to... |
| |
|
Falling dollar draws students (07 July 12:55) |
| Rising currency values in Europe and China, coupled with a low US dollar, have created heightened interest in US MBA programmes, according to research conducted by the MBA Tour, an independe... |
| |
|
Tribunal opens class-actions to schools (07 July 07:10) |
| Private schools and other charities could band together in class action-style claims to fight the government's charity watchdog through a new tribunal system that promises "swift, low-cost a... |
| |
|
Call to regulate trade in US life policies (06 July 10:10) |
| The growing trade in US life policies raises ethical and regulatory issues, according to a report from the Pensions Institute at Cass Business School. |
| |
|
'Clearing' plan for London bursaries (05 July 06:40) |
| London parents who cannot afford school fees could in the future use a "central clearing system" to transform their prospects of finding a bursary among the slew on offer from the capital's ... |
| |
|
Schools eye downturn as fees rise (05 July 06:35) |
| A handful of England's top private schools have responded to the credit crunch by bucking the trend and reining in this September's fee increases. |
| |
|
Israelis ponder threats within fortified city (05 July 01:10) |
| Israel's security officials have spent many years and billions of dollars to bolster the country's defences against attacks from militant Palestinians. This week, however, they were offered ... |
| |
|
Three generations of doctors (04 July 01:10) |
| Dame Margaret Turner- Warwick was a medical student on the day the NHS launched in 1948. She qualified in 1950. A leading lung specialist, with international honours, she became professor of... |
| |
|
A parent's lesson on public school study leave (04 July 12:10) |
| The final round of emotional public school balls and dinners to wave off 18-year-olds and their parents is now taking place. It is a tearful moment for many, particularly those of us who hav... |
| |
|
Sad offers 'transformational' programme (03 July 08:30) |
| Abu Dhabi - the largest of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates has turned to Saïd Business School in the UK to help it to deliver its ambitious vision for the future. |
| |
|
Baby steps to giant growth (03 July 12:15) |
| In 1984 Mohamed Alshaya, the young scion of a wealthy Kuwaiti dynasty, educated at Wharton business school and working at Morgan Stanley MWD in New York, received a telephone call from his f... |
| |
|
Fillip for UK school (02 July 04:05) |
| To coincide with its 50th anniversary as a business school, Ashridge in the UK has been given degree awarding powers. |
| |
|
Israel divides but does not define (02 July 12:25) |
| Nathan Diament used to play basketball with Barack Obama at Harvard Law School and remembers his college contemporary as a soothing voice of compromise in the student politics of the day. |
| |
|
Business schools in drive for quality (01 July 04:45) |
| The two best-known business schools in Kazakhstan are overcoming resource issues in a long-term drive to raise their standards to western levels, and help produce a new generation of manager... |
| |
|
Education: School leads the march of globalisation (01 July 04:45) |
| At a place where the city meets the apple orchards in the foothills of the mountains, a squadron of bulldozers is carving a football pitch out of the ground. |
| |
|
Defiant art market buoys MA (30 June 02:50) |
| While business school students globally might be eyeing the recruitment market nervously, one niche MA is going from strength to strength. |
| |
|
To the winner a chance of stardom (30 June 02:50) |
| For business school students wishing to test what they have learned in a practical setting, there are few opportunities to rival the business plan contest. The American Idol formats - multip... |
| |
|
Taste of challenges ahead (30 June 02:50) |
| Next week Scottish-born Alexandra Wersun, 23, a graduate in south Slavic languages from Nottingham University, will be in the tiny Slovene resort town of Bled learning about management. |
| |
|
Oxford focuses on the value of reputation (30 June 02:50) |
| Corporate reputations - how they are built, sustained, enhanced and if necessary repaired - are all part of the remit of the latest research and teaching centre at Oxford University in the U... |
| |
|
Dear Economist... (28 June 06:55) |
| I am about to leave university and have received employment offers from management consulting firms in both London and New York. I have to say that I like the idea of living in either one of... |
| |
|
Poet to mix rhyme and reason in class (28 June 03:55) |
| The vogue at private schools for lessons that feed the heart as well as the head has manifested itself in the appointment of a "poet in residence" at one of the highest-performing schools. |
| |
|
The ideology of teen pregnancy (28 June 12:30) |
| Every year at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts, three or four girls get pregnant. But not this year. This year 17 did. When Time magazine alleged that some of the girls had a "pregnan... |
| |
|
A double dose of midsummer madness (26 June 12:20) |
| Midsummer madness takes many forms. But what could be madder than a film week that twins the gloppy glitz of the newest Narnia epic - all gleaming battles, kindergarten Armageddon and crypto... |
| |
|
Warning on push to lure foreign students (25 June 07:35) |
| Efforts by universities to boost the number of foreign students - a core strategy of some of Britain's most elite institutions - have been branded "unsustainable" by a body charged withmaint... |
| |
|
Investors boost the 'missing middle' (24 June 08:55) |
| William Foote had gained a place at Harvard Business School and was ready to go when he had what he calls an "existential crisis". |
| |
|
Lib Dems face poor show on home ground (24 June 04:15) |
| The Liberal Democrats were on Monday forced to issue an apology to residents of Chinnor, the idyllic Oxfordshire village where their party leader grew up, after using the local primary schoo... |
| |
|
US consumers face advent of cloned food (24 June 02:00) |
| Duane Kraemer approaches with pride the Angus bull eating hay behind a fence at Texas A&M University. As the veterinary surgeon draws near, the bull snorts and paws the ground. |
| |
|
Green guide to business schools (23 June 10:45) |
| The Aspen Institute, whose work on corporate responsibility and environmental issues on MBA programmes is arguably the gold standard on the subject, is publishing its first guidebook for pr... |
| |
|
Who's Who: extended version of our list of personalities (23 June 05:55) |
| Reem BadranJORDAN The daughter of former Jordanian prime minister Mudar Badran, Reem Badran is chief executive of Kuwaiti Jordanian Holding Company, which has $122m to invest in sectors rang... |
| |
|
Smart player aims to lift performance (23 June 01:55) |
| In his youth Yves Perrier turned down the offer of a professional contract from Olympique Lyonnais, now France's pre-eminent football club, opting to enrol at business school instead. |
| |
|
From Insead to Africa (22 June 10:05) |
| Dov and Anat Bar-Gera call themselves "serial entrepreneurs" - a term that might bring a smile to their teachers at Insead, Fontainebleau, France, where the two gained MBAs soon after gradua... |
| |
|
Parents home in on charity-backed school (21 June 11:31) |
| Lambeth Academy in south London has proved a magnet for many professional parents in the area, including some who live in £2m ($3.95m) houses in the school's road, barely a stone's throw fr... |
| |
|
Church expands the holy grail of middle class (21 June 11:31) |
| Christian state schools - the holy grail of middle-class parents trying to avoid crippling private school fees - are rapidly expanding their numbers. |
| |
|
Consumed by guilt, fuelled by fried bread (21 June 06:45) |
| Nutrition is not a subject I have ever studied. I didn't do biology O-level, so I have not even the smallest grasp of the nutritional properties of plants and seeds, let alone animals. I am ... |
| |
|
Dutch talk things through (21 June 04:20) |
| Edward, my best friend from primary school, came to Bern to see Holland play Romania. I'm not Dutch but I grew up in a small Dutch town, and 30 years ago Edward and I used to phone each othe... |
| |
|
Dutch talks things through (21 June 04:10) |
| Edward, my best friend from primary school, came to Bern to see Holland play Romania. I'm not Dutch but I grew up in a small Dutch town, and 30 years ago Edward and I used to phone each othe... |
| |
|
Church of England targets academy schools (21 June 02:40) |
| The Church of England is set to become the biggest sponsor by far of academy schools, boosting the supply of an educational experience much sought after by middle class parents desperate to ... |
| |
|
Education: Lesson to be learnt from gender gap (20 June 06:30) |
| Every year the Egyptian newspapers publish on their front pages the names and pictures of the dozen or so students who received the highest grades nationally in the crucial thanawiyya amma e... |
| |
|
Experts find hybrid embryos easy to make (20 June 03:05) |
| Scientists at Newcastle University in the UK have already produced almost 300 hybrid embryos, by inserting human DNA into cow eggs, since their controversial research project started in Janu... |
| |
|
Luxury expert appointed at EFMD (19 June 07:05) |
| Alain Dominique Perrin, the man responsible for the international development of the Cartier brand, has been appointed president of EFMD, the European Federation of Management Development, ... |
| |
|
South Korea cries out for legal expertise (19 June 06:30) |
| A South Korean plan to introduce US-style law schools next year is facing a bumpy road. The intention is to ease shortages of lawyers caused by sharply increased demand and limited supply. |
| |
|
Flood-hit US farms braced for puny crops (19 June 12:10) |
| An air of anxious determination pervades the towns that border the Mississippi River in Pike County, Illinois, a corn and soyabean-farming region some 300 miles south-west of Chicago. |
| |
|
Cambridge college to be renamed (18 June 08:25) |
| New Hall, Cambridge, is to rename itself after an entrepreneurial couple who on Tuesday gave the college £30m, in a sign of Oxbridge's increasing ability to attract the big money that will ... |
| |
|
Buckley receives international business award (17 June 03:20) |
| Peter Buckley, professor of international business at Leeds University's business school, has become the first professor working in a British school to be awarded the Booz Allen Hamilton Str... |
| |
|
HIV/Aids: Infection among the world's highest (17 June 06:20) |
| On the desk in the principal's office of South Africa's Qondokuhle primary school is the picture of a little schoolgirl who died last August of Aids. The child's mother had died of Aids a fe... |
| |
|
Ofsted sounds alarm on science studies (17 June 04:20) |
| Pupils are dropping hard science subjects for A-level in favour of easier disciplines that they hope will earn them the grades needed for university, the state school watchdog says Tuesday. |
|
