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14 août 2011

University World News

http://www.universityworldnews.com/layout/UW/images/logo.gifUniversity World News was a media partner to the Talloires Network Leadership Conference in 2011, the OECD’s Institutional Management in Higher Education Conference in 2010, and the Unesco World Conference on Higher Education in 2009.
This week’s highlights

This week YOJANA SHARMA reports on the first United Nations Academic Impact conference, held in South Korea. The arrest in Thailand of a 23-year-old student blogger on charges of lèse majesté has dismayed many students, writes SULUCK LAMUBOL, and exiled political scientist GILES JI UNGPAKORN calls on the newly-elected Thai government to stop use of the law to trample on academic freedom. SHARON DELL looks at two reports published in South Africa calling for urgent action to reverse the decline of the humanities. In Commentary MARCELO KNOBEL proposes reforms to make Brazil more attractive to international students and academics, and RAMEZ MALUF argues that the Arab world needs to encourage academic freedom if its universities are to be truly world-class.
United Nations Academic Impact
GLOBAL: UN Academic Impact a 'global enterprise',Yojana Sharma
What started with just a few universities "and the simple wish to harness academia's great power for the common good, has become a global enterprise," said United Nations Secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon, opening the UN Academic Impact (UNAI) forum in the South Korean capital Seoul last week.
GLOBAL: Leadership education gets a boost through UN.Yojana Sharma
As the United Nations attempts to tap the wealth of knowledge and expertise available in universities to solve major global problems, one of the key areas of collaboration will be in capacity building in the developing world.
GLOBAL: Collaboration winds blowing North-South-South.Yojana Sharma
Under the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), an innovative method of university collaboration involves linking universities in developed countries of the North with those in a group of developed countries in the South - the so-called North-South-South model.

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