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25 janvier 2018

UK revelations revive stalled massive fake degree case

By Ameen Amjad Khan. An all but stalled investigation in Pakistan into a massive fake degree scandal involving the Karachi-based IT firm Axact is expected to pick up again after thousands of United Kingdom citizens were found to have bought fake degrees from Axact and after the promise of a new investigation by UK authorities into the scam. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Only three out of 111 state university rectors are women

A local newspaper has reported that only three state universities in Turkey have women rectors, despite women making up 43.58% of all academics in the country, reports Hurriyet Daily News. More...

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25 janvier 2018

42 universities in trouble over excess examination fees

The Nigerian government has queried 42 universities for charging more than the NGN2,000 (US$5.50) instructed by the Ministry of Education for the 2017 post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations conducted after the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board examinations, writes Wale Odunsi for the Daily Post. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Universities accused of unethical drug trials reporting

Universities have been accused of undertaking widespread unethical drug trials after The Daily Telegraph revealed Oxford researchers allowed a vaccine to be tested on babies despite doubts about its effectiveness, writes Henry Bodkin for The Telegraph. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Urgently fill faculty vacancies, president urges

President Ram Nath Kovind recently urged all new central universities to ensure that faculty vacancies are filled. Kovind held a ‘multi-stakeholder brainstorming’ session, as he put it, to deal with problems facing 17 new central universities that have arisen since 2009, reports The Times of India. More...

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25 janvier 2018

China to build joint institute with Moroccan university

The Chinese Ministry of Education has recently approved a China-Morocco joint institute to be built by northwest China's Ningxia University and Morocco's University of Hassan I, reports Xinhua. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Another university drops its English proficiency rule

National Chengchi University recently abolished a rule requiring students to pass standardised English proficiency tests, becoming the latest university to drop the graduation requirement following National Cheng Kung University and National Taipei University of Education, writes Ann Maxon for the Taipei Times. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Universities to open new faculties

New faculties will be opened at universities during the 2018-19 academic year, according to the Ministry of Education and Training’s new catalogue on training programmes in higher education, reports Viet Nam News. Most of the new faculties will be in the social fields. More...

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25 janvier 2018

HE body launches plagiarism probe against one of its own

The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan is set to meet soon to decide the fate of its second most important officer whose research paper was found to be 88% plagiarised, writes Waseem Abbasi for The News. More...

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25 janvier 2018

Universities win temporary access to Elsevier journals

The Dutch publishing giant Elsevier has granted uninterrupted access to its paywalled journals for researchers at around 200 German universities and research institutes that had refused to renew their individual subscriptions at the end of 2017, writes Quirin Schiermeier for Nature. More...

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