By Martin Todd. LERU launched a new advice paper on the topic "Gendered Research and Innovation: Integrating sex and gender analysis into the research process" in Brussels last Wednesday. The report shows how gendered research and innovation, or GRI, is an under-recognised issue, which too often is not incorporated into the design, process, content and implementation of research. Read more...
By David Jobbins. A crucial change in methodology designed to even out the differences between research universities and universities with broader subject mixes has produced a significant upheaval in the 2015 QS World University Rankings, announced on September 15.
No university in the Top 20 in the rankings is unaffected, but the changes are not as dramatic as some observers had expected. Read more...
By Brendan O’Malley – Managing Editor. In Commentary, Hans de Wit and Philip G Altbach encourage universities around the world to spring to action in support of Syrian refugees, offering suggestions as to what they can do to help. Anthony Welch says that promoting a moderate Muslim message of peace and understanding in Southeast Asian universities should weaken the appeal of Islamic extremism to impressionable young students.
In Features, Suvendrini Kakuchi highlights the resolve of Japanese students, who are normally subdued, to protest loudly against their government’s insistence on pushing a controversial set of national security bills through parliament. Yojana Sharma says that compulsory military training for Chinese university students before the start of term appears to be less militaristic and physically demanding than in the past and has become more like a form of patriotic education, but discontent is rising. And Wachira Kigotho reports on a study which showed that the United States is by far the most popular destination country for prospective international students from Sub-Saharan Africa.
In our World Blog, Margaret Andrews suggests that competition for traditional top-ranked business schools might come from places one might not expect, like training firms and online content providers.
In a Special Report, Karin Goodwin covers the annual conference of the European Association of International Education which took place in Glasgow, Scotland, last week. Read more...
By Geoffrey Pullum. I was recently browsing (I’ll tell you why some other time) in my long-neglected copy of The Basis and Essentials of German by Charles Duff and Richard Freund (Thomas Nelson, London, third edition 1945), and a polemical section in the introduction happened to catch my eye. It was a tirade against the practices of language teachers and examination compilers with regard to vocabulary range. More...
By Allan Metcalf. Now that summer is yielding to fall in the Northern Hemisphere, and the long days of summer are yielding to the long nights of fall, it’s a good moment to contemplate the distinctive language of certain staples of summer — in particular, ice cream, iced tea, and the ice cream sundae. More...
By Ben Yagoda. On Saturday, Flavia Pennetta of Italy defeated her countrywoman, longtime doubles partner, and onetime roommate Roberta Vinci to win the U.S. Open tennis tournament. More...
By Anne Curzan. It’s been 17 years since my realization that I was hoarding footnotes. I was using plenty of footnotes in my own academic work: I had been doing that since graduate school. But I was withholding footnotes from undergraduates. More...
By Lucy Ferriss. What is going on in Tennessee? First we learn that they tried to ban mothers and fathers before coming to their senses. Now we learn that their flagship university tried to ban he and she—before it came to its senses. What senses are these, and how is it that Tennessee keeps losing them. More...
By Anastasia Salter. This semester, I’m teaching a fairly large (130 at final count) online course in digital media. I wrote last month about some of the strategies I’ve used to prepare the course, including thinking about replacements for in-class activities and planning a highly structured series of content. Read more...
By Kate Stoltzfus. A new state law bars Missouri students who are in the United States illegally from receiving a state scholarship that would shield them from high tuition rates, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. More...
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