By Jaehee Cho and Hongsik Yu. According to the Open Doors 2014 report, published by the Institute of International Education, there was an 8.1% increase in international students studying in the US from 2013 to 2014. There are 231 US institutions that host more than 1,000 international students. This number is also continuously increasing. Read more...15 février 2015
How does university support improve international students’ well-being?
By Jaehee Cho and Hongsik Yu. According to the Open Doors 2014 report, published by the Institute of International Education, there was an 8.1% increase in international students studying in the US from 2013 to 2014. There are 231 US institutions that host more than 1,000 international students. This number is also continuously increasing. Read more...Why the social sciences matter
By Jonathan Michie. Despite various claims over the years about the ‘end of history’, and that ‘there is no such thing as society’, it seems patently clear that society faces problems and challenges as great as ever – whether it’s climate change, increasing inequality or conflict and civil war. Read more...Equal access: Is it just about fees?
By Francisco Marmolejo. The title of the recent blog written by my colleague Harry Patrinos couldn’t be more direct and clear: “Make the Rich Pay for University”. Read more...International links have vital role in times of global tension
By Philip Altbach and Hans de Wit. At the start of 2015, after a year of increased political and military tension growing in several parts of the world, including Europe, as well as the fundamentalist attacks in Paris, it is relevant to look at its implications for higher education.The current global climate will inevitably affect international higher education. Increased nationalist, religious and ideological conflicts challenge the original ideas of international cooperation and exchange in higher education as promoters of peace and mutual understanding and of global engagement. Read more...
HE minister’s hands are tied on funds for teaching
By Jan Petter Myklebust. The new Minister for Higher Education and Research, Helene Hellmark Knutsson, is facing an uphill task to convince the sector that she can invest in education as well as research, given the uncertain political situation. Read more...International students bring money, skills and jobs
By Alejandro Ortiz, Li Chang and Yuanyuan Fang. International students contributed almost US$27 billion to the US economy in 2014, which corresponds to a 12% increase versus 2013 when the total was US$24 billion. Read more...Signing overtakes German as language enrolments fall
By Maddy Berner, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Enrolments in foreign-language courses at American colleges declined after nearly 20 years of growth, falling 6.7% from autumn 2009 to autumn 2013, according to a report released last Wednesday by the Modern Language Association – and American Sign Language is now studied by more people than German. Read more...Academies demand central role for research after election
By Brendan O’Malley. The national academies have urged whoever wins power in the May General Election to place research and innovation at the heart of plans for long-term economic growth. Read more...Nation’s top talent head overseas for jobs
By Geoff Maslen. The government’s cuts to research spending and its plans to deregulate university fees appear to be forcing increasing numbers of the nation’s top young academics to leave the country, according to National Tertiary Education Union President Jeannie Rea. Read more...Universities urge MEPs to reject hefty research cuts
By Brendan O’Malley. The European University Association, or EUA, has called on the European Parliament to reject a plan that would make deep cuts in European research. Read more...
