Turkey’s election outcome could erode university access for Syrian refugees

By Brendan O’Malley – Managing Editor. This week in Commentary, James King analyses the possible negative implications for Syrian refugee students and academics of this month’s elections in Turkey, and calls on the international community to support the country’s commitment to refugee education.
Alex Usher finds several structural reasons why Russian universities are unlikely to shoot up the global rankings, despite heavy investment in Project 5-100. Roger Chao Jr maintains that Canada’s international education strategy is too market-driven and needs a broader vision as well as input from experts on internationalisation, and Peter Halligan argues that small countries such as Wales need ongoing investment and long-term strategy to build research capacity and win more competitive research funding.
In World Blog, Margaret Andrews calls on business schools to respond to the demands of employers around the world who want graduates with ‘soft skills’.
In Features, Mary Beth Marklein describes how Venezuelan students abroad are suffering following a change in their country’s currency control policy. Peta Lee unpacks a study showing that lack of support for the study-to-work transition of international students in Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden is undermining their ‘model immigrant’ strategies, and Esther Nakkazi attends a meeting in Uganda of Development Research Uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa, or DRUSSA, which aims to build capacity in universities to improve Africa’s research usage. Read more...