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7 novembre 2017

QAA tells universities how to fight contract cheating

By Brendan O'Malley. The independent quality body for higher education in the United Kingdom, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education or QAA, has issued new guidance on how to combat 'contract cheating', where students pay a company or individual to produce work that they then pass off as their own. More...
7 novembre 2017

Student satisfaction declines in key areas – Survey

Students are less satisfied with their courses, lecturers and academic programmes than previously, according to a survey published recently by Israel’s national student union, writes Sarah Levi for The Jerusalem Post. More...
7 novembre 2017

New research universities to receive government funding

With the approval of the law on science in Azerbaijan, the creation of research universities has been added to the legislation, and universities that are granted this status will receive financial support from the government, writes Konul Kamilgizi for APA. More...
7 novembre 2017

Cambridge University 'decolonisation' movement spreads

Students who campaigned for the English curriculum at Cambridge University to be ‘decolonised’ are now turning their attention to other subjects including history, philosophy and history of art, writes Camilla Turner for The Telegraph. More...
7 novembre 2017

Opposition pledges free higher education for all

The opposition coalition known as Pakatan Harapan says that tertiary education will be free to everyone within 10 years if the Pakatan Harapan pact succeeds in taking control of Putrajaya in the next elections, reports Yiswaree Palansamy for the Malay Mail Online. More...
7 novembre 2017

Students were better off in 1980s, says statistics chief

The proportion of black students progressing at universities was higher in the 1980s than it was in 2017, according to Statistician-General Pali Lehohla, who released the financial statistics of higher education institutions for 2016 in Pretoria last week, writes Michelle Gumede for Business Day. More...
7 novembre 2017

Report highlights tensions between research and teaching

The obsession with research at universities is helping to create an oversupply of graduates in certain areas and potentially bad outcomes for students and taxpayers, writes Charis Chang for News.com.au. More...
7 novembre 2017

State universities, colleges to get upgrade

To support the implementation of free tuition in state colleges and universities, these institutions will have an across-the-board increase in capital outlay of PHP10 million (US$192,600) each in the proposed PHP3.7 trillion national budget for 2018, writes Paolo Romero for The Philippine Star. More...
7 novembre 2017

Align degrees with development goals, universities urged

State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Floyd Green, has called on local universities to ensure that the degree programmes being offered are in keeping with the country's development goals, the government's economic priorities, and are on par with the very best international standards, reports the Jamaica Observer. More...
7 novembre 2017

Shanghai universities launch recruitment drive in US

According to local media reports, a dozen universities based in Shanghai have for the first time decided to launch a joint recruitment drive for professors in the United States, reports China.org.cn. More...
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