By Sara Custer. The Australian government has finally released its long-awaited International Education National Strategy that places research, increasing international student numbers and expanding the country’s offshore presence at the heart of its push to remain one of the world’s top five education providers. More...
By Natalie Marsh. With China’s position as the world’s largest economy solidified, the country’s higher education sector is expected to see similar dramatic growth, expanding even further globally, delegates at the Asia-Pacific Association for International Education’s (APAIE) 10th annual conference and exhibition heard. More...
By Natalie Marsh. University College Dublin, which labels itself “Ireland’s Global University”, has launched a China Global Centre located in the Chaoyang District in China’s capital. It will act as a base for the university and facilitate better engagement with partner institutions as well as be an on-the-ground contact point for interested parties. More...
By Natalie Marsh. U-Multirank, a multi-dimensional university ranking database, released its second edition of global university rankings on Monday.
Launched last May, U-Multirank seeks to recognise that universities are merited for different qualities. Instead of producing a fixed league table based on overall performance, users are able to select different categories to create personalised rankings. More...
By James Latham. The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (also known as the City of Tshwane) is the metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of northern Gauteng Province, South Africa, and includes the administrative capital city of Pretoria. Following Meetings Africa last month, IMR visited the Municipality to learn about how it is leveraging its educational strengths to bring in top-tier conferences. More...
By Matthew Knott. Australia should look beyond the Asia-Pacific and lure more international students from Latin America and the Middle East to study at local campuses, according to a major federal government review of the $16 billion international education sector. Half of Australia's international enrolments come from just five countries - China, India, Vietnam, South Korea and Thailand. The government wants Australian higher education providers to expand into other regions where demand is booming while also building on their strengths in Asia. More...
By . In August 2014, the secretary-general of the United Nations established the Independent Expert Advisory Group on a Data Revolution for Sustainable Development. This group was charged with evaluating the global state of data and deriving recommendations that permit data to live up to their potential as “the lifeblood of decision-making and the raw material for accountability.” The resulting report, A World that Counts, posits that “Governments, companies, researchers and citizen groups are in a ferment of experimentation, innovation and adaptation to the new world of data, a world in which data are bigger, faster and more detailed than ever before.” This, they assert, “is the Data Revolution.” More...
Student quality, not university size, is non-negotiable, writes University of Otago vice-chancellor Harlene Hayne.
It is easy to forget that neither constant growth nor sheer size define the world's great universities.
Indeed, if anything, the opposite is true.
Among those that consistently make the top 10 in the prominent international rankings, the vast majority - including Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Chicago and Caltech - have a student roll either similar to or smaller than Otago's. More...
By Sawai Boonma. At the cabinet meeting in Prachuap Khiri Khan province last week, the governor proposed that a new university be built at tambon Bo Nok, south of the provincial centre. His justification for the new university for the new university was that young people of the province would not have to go far from home for higher education. More...
La loi d'avenir pour l'agriculture, l'agroalimentaire et la forêt a réaffirmé l'importance de l'enseignement technique et supérieur et de la recherche agricole pour la réussite de nos secteurs agricole, agroalimentaire vétérinaire et forestier. Pour disposer d'un enseignement à la pointe de la recherche, Stéphane Le Foll ainsi que le Parlement ont souhaité créer une structure permettant une synergie étroite entre l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche agronomique, vétérinaire, forestière et de paysage.
L'Institut agronomique, vétérinaire et forestier de France dont le décret relatif à l'organisation et au fonctionnement a été publié ce jour au Journal Officiel devient désormais une réalité.
L'Institut agronomique, vétérinaire et forestier de France (I.A.V.F.F.) fédère les 12 établissements publics d'enseignement supérieur agronomique, vétérinaire et de paysage relevant du ministère, ainsi que l'INRA et l'IRSTEA, en préservant leur autonomie de gestion et leurs implantations territoriales. D'autres établissements ont d'ores et déjà fait part de leur souhait de se joindre à cette dynamique. Voir l'article...
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