By Jan Petter Myklebust. Norway’s Minister of Research and Higher Education, Iselin Nybø, is considering making a student exchange period abroad mandatory rather than the exception it is today. More...10 septembre 2018
Minister moots mandatory study abroad for students
By Jan Petter Myklebust. Norway’s Minister of Research and Higher Education, Iselin Nybø, is considering making a student exchange period abroad mandatory rather than the exception it is today. More...Union proposes better employment for foreign academics
By Jan Petter Myklebust. Foreign-born academics in Sweden are disproportionately overqualified for their job or unemployed and action should be taken to make better use of their talent, according to a new analysis published by Jusek, a union of university graduates. More...Government slashes university intake as population falls
By Aimee Chung. Some 116 universities and colleges in South Korea will hear this month that their student intake quota will be reduced – in some cases by as much as 35% in the coming year – as the government attempts to manage the higher education sector in an era of demographic decline. More...Minister supports international student visa change
By Brendan O'Malley. The universities minister, Sam Gyimah, has backed a called by universities for a new visa to allow international students to gain work experience in the United Kingdom for up to two years after graduation. More...Survey reveals overseas China scholars’ self-censorship
By Yojana Sharma. Repressive experiences during the conduct of research on China may be rare but they are a “real phenomenon” and a barrier to doing research in the country, leading some scholars to self-censor and others to change research focus or abandon it altogether, according to a new study. It analyses data from the first ever survey of self-censorship among China scholars overseas. More...The perils of fieldwork in authoritarian states
By Yojana Sharma. Doctoral students and researchers in the social and political sciences need more training to deal with the perils of fieldwork in authoritarian states in Southeast Asia, according to two experts on the region. More...Defending the 'public good' in postgraduate studies
By Thandokazi Silosini, Tebadi Bopape, Nelisa Khambule and Nnamdi Nwahara. The debate over the role of higher education in relation to the public good overlaps with an increasing scrutiny of government funding and the state’s involvement in higher learning institutions. Having professionally skilled citizens is largely considered an essential condition to societal good, but only to the extent that they serve society. More...4IR – The heartbeat of university innovation
By Edwin Naidu. South African universities are embracing the challenges and opportunities presented by the digital industrial revolution, better known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). More...Reimagining a university of technology for future growth
By Sharon Dell. Advances in the field of additive manufacturing – more commonly known as 3D printing – have put the Central University of Technology (CUT) squarely on the world map, particularly with regard to the manufacturing of medical devices. More...Uncertainty prevails over pension scheme for university staff
By Tunde Fatunde. An academic staff pension scheme has been set up by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as an alternative to the existing compulsory contributory fund which has become increasingly dysfunctional as a result of government’s failure to subsidise it. Until the new scheme is formally up and running, however, uncertainty among staff members continues. More...
