Australian universities are setting new targets in a bid to attract thousands more Indigenous students to campuses across the country, writes Bridget Brennan for ABC News. Read more...
08 mars 2017
Universities set targets to attract indigenous students
Trump signs order supporting historically black colleges
President Donald Trump signed an executive order last Tuesday aimed at boosting his administration’s support for black colleges, as he seeks a closer relationship with the colleges than President Barack Obama had, writes Dave Boyer for The Washington Times. Read more...
Fast-track degree plan raises quality concerns
The government has been warned that plans for fast-track degrees with higher annual fees risk adversely affecting the quality of education received by university students, write Ruth McKee and Haroon Siddique for the Guardian. Read more...
Indian students flock to Australia for higher studies
The Australian government's campaign to lure Indian students for higher studies is bearing fruit as nearly 80,000 of them enrolled in various education and training courses in 2016. Overall, Australian universities and vocational training institutes have experienced another bumper year with more than half a million international students choosing to study Down Under, writes Paritosh Parasher for IANS. Read more...
Senators call for urgent overhaul of higher education
Senators have asked the government to move swiftly and assess the country’s higher education sector to address issues affecting it such as poor infrastructure, inadequate resources for students’ living and class practices as well as poor funding for academic research, writes Eugene Kwibuka for New Times. Read more...
‘Devastating’ report on sexual assault at universities
Universities have been accused of "actively covering up sexual assaults" in a submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission, which alleges there have been just six expulsions in the past five years despite more than 500 official complaints, writes Eryk Bagshaw for The Sydney Morning Herald. Read more...
Number of ‘eternal students’ doubles
The number of the so-called eternal students in Greek universities and technical colleges has doubled since 2003, while one in 10 graduates migrates, writes Philip Chrysopoulos for the Greek Reporter. Read more...
Rise in number of women with higher education
Statistics show that the population of women with college degrees for the first time surpassed that of women who only graduated high school, writes Park Hyong-ki for The Korea Times. Read more...
Universities to run apprenticeship degree schemes
Singapore’s thrust on combining classroom learning with workplace experience has graduated to the next level, as two universities launch programmes allowing students to take on jobs and receive sponsorship to study their degrees at the same time, writes Sandra Davie for The Straits Times. Read more...
Universities to compete with IITs, IIMs in rankings
Central and state universities will have to compete with institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology, or IITs, and Indian Institutes of Management, or IIMs, in this year’s official rankings of higher education institutions, which will be released early in April, writes Vikas Pathak for The Hindu. Read more...
