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7 novembre 2017

European HE leaders call for urgent Brexit decisions

Leaders of Europe’s higher education bodies have signed a statement calling on governments across Europe to speed up Brexit negotiations so that talks can begin over the future of European research, collaboration and student mobility. More...

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7 novembre 2017

US leads China in latest global university rankings

United States universities have taken the top four spots in the US News and World Report’s 2018 Best Global Universities rankings, released on Tuesday. The US dominates with 221 spots out of the 1,250 institutions evaluated, followed by China with 136, Japan with 76, the United Kingdom with 73 and Germany with 58. More...

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7 novembre 2017

Threat to cull elite Project 5-100 universities blocked

By Brendan O’Malley and Eugene Vorotnikov. The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Olga Golodets, has ruled out any imminent adoption of a proposal by the Minister of Education and Science, Olga Vasilyeva, to remove funding from 15 out of 21 institutions in the Project 5-100 elite universities programme to concentrate on six institutions. More...

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7 novembre 2017

UK, EU ‘must urgently agree’ deep science partnership

By Brendan O’Malley. A new, deep and special partnership in science and innovation between the European Union and the United Kingdom must be agreed upon as a matter of urgency, a policy briefing published by the Centre for Global Higher Education, or CGHE, on 1 November has recommended. CGHE is based at the UCL Institute of Education in the UK. More...

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7 novembre 2017

National drive to double study abroad numbers launched

By Brendan O’Malley. Universities UK International has launched a three-year campaign to increase the number of United Kingdom students studying, working and volunteering abroad for two or more weeks as part of their studies. More...

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7 novembre 2017

Universities strongly oppose Republican tax proposals

By Brendan O’Malley. Higher education leaders have reacted strongly against Republican tax proposals unveiled on Thursday, warning that the plan to tax endowments of private institutions and scrap a deduction for student-loan interest would harm institutions and students. More...

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7 novembre 2017

Universities face fines for not protecting free speech

By Brendan O’Malley. Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson has called on the new higher education regulator, the Office for Students or OfS, to champion free speech and openness in United Kingdom universities, in a statement published by the government. More...

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7 novembre 2017

Study identifies key challenges for foreign students

By Brendan O’Malley. Nearly half of international students who return to their home country after graduation cited visa-related and work-related issues as the primary reason for returning, according to a new report on the career prospects and outcomes of international students. More...

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7 novembre 2017

Oxford and Cambridge hit by ‘social apartheid’ claims

By Brendan O’Malley. Oxford and Cambridge, the country’s top two universities, are in the eye of a storm over information obtained by a former education minister of falling levels of access for black students and poor levels of access for socio-economically disadvantaged students. More...

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7 novembre 2017

Iranian scholar sentenced to death on spying charge

By Brendan O’Malley. A judge in Tehran has ordered the death penalty for Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, a Stockholm-based Iranian academic convicted on charges of spying for Israel after being forced to sign a confession. He had been invited to Iran to teach classes in medical responses to disaster emergencies. More...

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