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27 août 2018

Universities – The creators of the new wealth of nations

By Ian Jacobs. The history of Australia’s universities began in 1850 when William Charles Wentworth sought to establish the University of Sydney to give “the opportunity for the child of every class” to become “great and useful in the destinies of this country”. More...
27 août 2018

Rectors support campaign for deported student’s appeal

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Professor Anne Husebekk, rector of the University of Tromsø in Norway, has been criticised for taking the unprecedented step of organising a campaign to raise funds for an appeal against a decision to reject a student’s residence visa application and ban him from re-entering the country for five years. More...
27 août 2018

Marked progress in students taking less time to graduate

By Michael Gardner. A new survey by a German higher education think tank demonstrates that more students are obtaining degrees within a reasonable time than in the early years of the Bologna reforms. More...
27 août 2018

University of California nears funding tipping point

By Brendan O'Malley. After years of sagging funding and rising enrolment, the University of California (UC) system is nearing a ‘tipping point’ where it cannot continue to grow with California’s population and labour needs without seeking new revenues and state reinvestment, according to a new report from UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education. More...
27 août 2018

Russian trolls stoke public discord on vaccine science

By Brendan O'Malley. Social media ‘bots’ and Russian ‘trolls’ have promoted discord and spread “unverified and erroneous” information about vaccines on social media, disrupting science communication to the public and posing a threat to public health, according to new research led by the George Washington University in the United States. More...
27 août 2018

China, US lead on gains in ARWU university ranking

By Brendan O'Malley. China and the United States are the biggest gainers in the 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), released on 15 August, with respectively six and four more universities in the top 500, but there is no movement at the very top with Harvard University leading for the 16th year running. More...
27 août 2018

Revamp of university regulatory body faces opposition

By Shuriah Niazi. The Indian government's move to replace the higher education regulator, the University Grants Commission (UGC), with a new body to improve quality and allow institutions more autonomy faces opposition from parties in parliament and criticism that it would increase government control and politicisation of education. More...
27 août 2018

Visa rules reformed to attract more foreign students

By John Gerritsen. The New Zealand government has overhauled post-study work rights for foreign students in a bid to stamp out abuse and attract more enrolments. More...
27 août 2018

Call for sweeping changes in tertiary education system

By Geoff Maslen. The radical proposals are among a sweeping set of recommendations in a report by the multinational professional service company, KPMG. More...
27 août 2018

Universities feel the brunt of a market-driven agenda

By Wachira Kigotho. A quarter of a century ago, Uganda’s Makerere University embarked on an academic journey hitherto undreamt of in Sub-Saharan Africa: intensive marketisation of higher education. More...
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