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21 septembre 2017

What freedoms do ‘institutions of eminence’ need?

By Alan Ruby and Matthew Hartley. Early in August 2017 Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet agreed to a proposal to fund the creation of 20 ‘institutions of eminence’ in India’s already complex higher education system. More...

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21 septembre 2017

The ‘World-Class’ fad – Time to pursue a grander vision

By John Aubrey Douglass and John N Hawkins. To a degree unmatched in other parts of the globe, the notion of a ‘World-Class University’ and the focus on its close relative, global rankings of universities, dominates the higher education policy-making of ministries and major universities in Asia. More...

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21 septembre 2017

Serving the knowledge industry or the public good?

By Peter Scott. At a time in England when graduate debt, fuelled by the highest tuition fees of any public system of higher education in the world, is approaching £100 billion (US$132 billion), it is hardly surprising that the spotlight has been trained on vice-chancellors’ salaries. More...

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21 septembre 2017

The new nationalism and internationalisation of HE

By Philip G Altbach and Hans de Wit. To borrow a turn of phrase from Karl Marx, a spectre is haunting higher education internationalisation and it is the dramatic rise of often xenophobic nationalism now sweeping across many countries – from Trump’s ‘America First’ to Brexit in the United Kingdom to Orban’s proto-fascism in Hungary. More...

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21 septembre 2017

Pressure mounts as universities hike residence fees

By Ashraf Khaled. Egyptian authorities have announced an increase in accommodation fees for students living in university dormitories, putting mounting pressure on students and their families living through the country’s worst economic crisis in decades. More...

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21 septembre 2017

Election pledges address student fees and allowances

By John Gerritsen. New Zealand’s opposition parties are promising more financial support and lower fees for tertiary students in an attempt to woo youth voters – and their parents – ahead of this week’s general elections. More...

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21 septembre 2017

Universities to be punished for admissions ‘arms race’

By Aimee Chung. As part of its drive to clamp down on excessive tutoring and elite private schools that prepare students for the best universities, the South Korean government has ordered almost a dozen universities – including its top three universities – to revamp their admissions tests to bring them more in line with the normal high school curriculum. More...

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21 septembre 2017

Fees, disruption and the meaning of the university

By Tom Abeles. The history of the itinerant scholar can be traced through the founding of various schools in the early centuries. A major shift occurred around 1000, in Italy, when the first universities were founded under the sponsorship of governments and religious organisations. This marked the point at which the interests of a larger public influenced the formation of and activities within the ‘Ivory Tower’. More...

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21 septembre 2017

Young researchers need help with academic networking

By Donatella Camedda, Ana Mirman-Flores and Ashling Ryan-Mangan. Networking has been increasingly recognised as a vital component of a successful career in higher education. Yet, developing good networking skills is hardly an easy task, especially for early career researchers, who are starting to navigate the vast boundaries of academia and might feel like little fish in a big ocean. More...

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21 septembre 2017

Evidence-based policies for all – Except for science?

By Yves Gingras. Over the summer, the United States National Institutes of Health, or NIH, announced that they were abandoning their plan to cap the maximum number of grants researchers can get, using an index that takes the total amount of money obtained by a Principal Investigator into account. More...

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