Ten years ago, one of Jorge Balderrama's psychology students gave the following answer when asked to evaluate his professor's performance: "You pretend to teach, and I pretend to learn."

The student might have been describing the classroom experience today at most Mexican universities, says Dr. Balderrama, a physician and psychologist who has taught for more than 15 years.

Despite more than a decade of government-led higher-education reforms in Latin...

The United States' dominance in graduate business education is slipping a bit as growing numbers of young foreign applicants choose to study elsewhere, according to an analysis of the number of students taking the Graduate Management Admission Test.

From 2005 to 2009, that important barometer of the demand for business education grew 75...

To get a violin lesson from Anne Akiko Meyers in the past, you'd most likely have had to go to her New York City apartment—if you could catch her there between the dozens of performances she gave around the globe—or be lucky enough to snag some personal instruction at one of her occasional master classes.

But starting this fall, 10 violin students at the University of Texas at Austin have Ms. Meyers as their regular instructor for weekly lessons. The Sarah and...