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14 juillet 2013

World-class universities key to knowledge economy plan

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By Yojana Sharma. Turkey is attempting to rise from being the world’s 17th largest economy to the 10th largest within a decade – but can only break out of the ‘middle-income trap’ by becoming a knowledge economy. That means nurturing world-class universities, science and innovation and links with industry, Davut Kavranoglu, deputy minister for science, industry and technology, told a conference in Istanbul in early July. Read more...

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14 juillet 2013

Internationalising academic calendar tricky for Tokyo

By Suvendrini Kakuchi. Bringing Japan’s academic calendar in line with universities around the world, in particular replacing the traditional April enrolment date with September or October entry, has been seen as important for internationaliaing higher education and promoting exchange opportunities for students and academics between Japan and other countries. But it is proving difficult. A Tokyo University committee was set up last year to examine how to implement the change, after the university’s President Junichi Hamada said he intended to introduce autumn enrolment by 2015. Read more...

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14 juillet 2013

Internationalising academic calendar tricky for Tokyo

By Suvendrini Kakuchi. Bringing Japan’s academic calendar in line with universities around the world, in particular replacing the traditional April enrolment date with September or October entry, has been seen as important for internationaliaing higher education and promoting exchange opportunities for students and academics between Japan and other countries. But it is proving difficult. A Tokyo University committee was set up last year to examine how to implement the change, after the university’s President Junichi Hamada said he intended to introduce autumn enrolment by 2015. Read more...

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14 juillet 2013

Europe acts to ensure access for education franchises

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The European Commission has started an infringement process against Slovenia, requesting that legislation be aligned with the European Union (EU) treaty and the Service Directive in the field of education. The issue is over access to Slovenia for education franchise operations. If Slovenian authorities do not reply satisfactorily within two months, the commission may refer the case to the EU Court of Justice. Read more...

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14 juillet 2013

Apex body slammed for move to shut down 32 centres

By Alya Mishra. India’s University Grants Commission, or UGC, has come in for fierce criticism for its decision to withdraw a scheme that supports setting up and running Centres for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies in institutions across India. There are 32 centres in 24 states. The UGC, India’s apex regulatory body for universities, informed the centres – known as CSSEIPs – of their closure on 29 May, stating that they had not “taken off”.

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14 juillet 2013

New study reveals huge student visa costs to universities

By Peta Lee. The most comprehensive study yet of the UK higher education sector’s international student visa costs has revealed a complex system characterised by confusion and inconsistencies. The estimated cost to universities in 2012-13 was a whopping £66.8 million (US$87 million) – £26 million higher than the most recent estimates. Read more...

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14 juillet 2013

Nine Singaporeans graduated from law course with NYU

By Yojana Sharma. A joint degree run by New York University (NYU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), awarding a master of laws degree from both universities, had benefited just nine Singaporeans since the one-year postgraduate degree was launched in 2007, Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang revealed last week. In May the universities involved announced that the course would be scrapped after 2014, when the current intake completes the course. Read more...

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14 juillet 2013

Taksim protests spill into higher education conference

By Yojana Sharma. Protests in Turkey spilled over into a higher education conference recently when students supporting the Gezi Park movement demonstrated outside Istanbul Technical University (ITU) against the presence there of Council of Higher Education President Gökhan Çetinsaya. Read more...

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14 juillet 2013

Academics support plagiarism whistleblower petition

By Michael Gardner. More than 600 academics in Germany have signed a petition demanding that cases of plagiarism and data manipulation be settled in discourses at subject level. The campaign is critical of a move by the German Rectors’ Conference to have such issues treated confidentially in university committees. Germany’s higher education system has been rocked by a wave of plagiarism scandals involving top politicians, which culminated earlier this year in the resignation of education minister Annette Schavan, following allegations of plagiarism. Read more...

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14 juillet 2013

Erasmus to expand programme after record figures

By Peta Lee. Expansion is in the pipeline for Erasmus, the European Union’s higher education exchange programme. Since its launch in 1987, more than three million students have benefited from the system, which supports cooperation between 33 countries. In a press release last week, new statistics unveiled by Erasmus covering the 2011-12 academic year reveal that the programme also enabled a record 250,000 students to spend part of their higher education studies abroad or to take up jobs with foreign companies to boost their employability. Read more...

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