A flood of foreign undergraduates on America’s campuses is improving the financial health of universities. It also sometimes clashes with a fundamental value of US scholarship: academic integrity, write Miriam Jordan and Douglas Belkin for The Wall Street Journal. Read more...
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Foreign students seen cheating more than domestic ones
Education giants make competing offers for Estacio
Two of Brazil’s biggest education companies are facing off in a quest to merge with Estacio Participacoes SA, the country’s second-largest for-profit firm in the sector, write Sabrina Valle and Fabiola Moura for Bloomberg. Read more...
Innovation hub attracts start-ups and universities
About a 20-minute drive from the Rwandan capital of Kigali, there’s a barren road that leads to a construction site amid cornfields and banana trees. There, across a stretch of red earth, a hundred workers finish constructing the first building of the Kigali Innovation City. By mid-2017, the site is slated to be home to an offshoot of Carnegie Mellon University, the first African campus for the American higher education institution, writes Chloé Hecketsweiler for World Crunch. Read more...
Government on track to meet artisan target – Minister
The government remains confident of meeting its target of producing 30,000 artisans per year in line with the National Development Plan, despite the challenges faced by some training institutions, writes Bekezela Phakathi for BD Live. Read more...
Government slashes red tape for scientific researchers
The Chinese government will cut red tape in science and research funding by removing unnecessary administrative barriers for universities and research institutions so as to better stimulate the enthusiasm of academics, reports Xinhua. Read more...
University moves to close professor gender pay gap
Female professors at the University of Essex will be awarded a one-off salary hike, the institution has announced, in an attempt to eradicate the gender pay gap, writes Rachael Pells for the Independent. Read more...
‘Insularity is not the way forward’: three university vice-chancellors on Brexit
By . Universities and their leaders are contemplating the spectre of a British exit from the European Union with considerable alarm. Over the last few decades, the institutional architecture of Britain’s universities has become ever more European. The threat of Brexit jeopardises a range of collaborations and research projects including the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme and the ERASMUS student exchange scheme. Universities, unsurprisingly, are worried. More...EU students do very well out of studying in the UK – Brexit might scupper that
By and . What Brexit would mean for EU students and the graduate labour force is a complicated question. The process of negotiating a British exit from the EU would create a period of significant uncertainty and could well make the UK a less desirable place to study during the period of transition. More...How to eat your way to better grades
By . A key factor in how well you do in an exam is “cognitive function”, which pretty much means the functioning of the brain. This includes variables such as memory and attention, and it can be easily affected by how much, and what type of food you do or do not eat. More...
Losing the Cornish language would kill off part of British culture
By . The Cornish language “Kernewek” is one of the oldest tongues still spoken in Britain today. Like Welsh, Breton – its closest relatives – Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx Gaelic, Kernewek is a Celtic language. Yet it has not enjoyed the same protection that some of the former have. Now the British government is cutting the funding that supports the survival of this language. More...
