By Lin Tian, Yan Wu and Niancai Liu. In 2015, UNESCO published a report, Rethinking Education: Towards a Global Common Good, which proposed that the common good should be seen as a constructive alternative to the public good (the latter being traditionally seen as being closely associated with education and its outputs). More...07 novembre 2017
A shift to the global common good in higher education
By Lin Tian, Yan Wu and Niancai Liu. In 2015, UNESCO published a report, Rethinking Education: Towards a Global Common Good, which proposed that the common good should be seen as a constructive alternative to the public good (the latter being traditionally seen as being closely associated with education and its outputs). More...Closure raises doubts over university clinic treatment
By Jan Petter Myklebust. The University of Oslo has closed down the outpatient clinic in psychology at its institute of psychology, where patients were treated by psychology students under supervision of their professors, a system that has been functioning well for more than 40 years. More...Plan to benchmark university-business collaborations
Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson has outlined his vision to secure the UK’s status as a “pioneering nation” and called for universities to secure more return from the research conducted by institutions across the United Kingdom. More...Accommodation crisis forces students to sleep in tents
By Michael Gardner. Many first-year students are having to sleep in cars, tents or party halls due to continuing accommodation shortages this winter semester, and the German National Association for Student Affairs – Deutsches Studentenwerk or DSW – is calling for more affordable accommodation and more government money to maintain cheap rent levels in its new student hostels. More...Minister aims to refocus elite universities programme
By Eugene Vorotnikov. The Russian Minister of Education and Science, Olga Vasilyeva, is proposing to drastically cut the number of participants in the state’s ‘Project 5-100’ aimed at developing world-class universities – in order to improve its chances of achieving its objectives by 2020. More...President cracks down on, shuts Anglophone universities
By Tunde Fatunde. The two main public universities in Anglophone Cameroon have been shut down by the country’s president. The indefinite closures – after months of partial closures – come amid allegations of unprecedented military force being used to suppress unrest by staff and students who are demanding greater independence for their English-speaking regions. More...Report stresses need for relevant university curricula
By Christabel Ligami. Relevance to a modern economy, up-to-date curricula and effective teaching styles are crucial if developing countries are to see their investments in higher education generate positive returns, according to the Global Competitiveness Report 2017-18. More...Top university calls time on ‘third-class’ degrees
By Yojana Sharma. Singapore’s top ranked Nanyang Technological University, or NTU, has become the second university in Singapore to ditch British-style honours degree classifications to eliminate ‘third-class’ degrees and “better reflect” their students’ capabilities, the university said. More...How do you prepare students for an unknowable future?
By Yojana Sharma. The worldwide debate about the impact of disruptive technologies on jobs and the need to prepare future-ready graduates for a future that is not even clear, was a major topic for university leaders from Europe and Asia meeting in Singapore last week. More...International students key to US lead in innovation
By Brendan O'Malley. Many graduate level programmes in science and engineering fields would be unavailable for American students without international students. It is therefore essential to have a welcoming policy for international students, concludes a new study by the National Foundation for American Policy or NFAP. More...
