By David Matthews. Li Keqiang also demands institutions stop duplicating research. More...
09 mai 2016
Experts call for autonomy of universities
Participants at the second roundtable conference on “Six years of 18th Constitutional Amendment: Equity and autonomy of universities”, demanded the implementation of the 18th Constitutional Amendment in education, especially in the higher education sector, and said that the autonomy of universities should be ensured, reports Pakistan Today. Read more...
30 avril 2016
China premier: give universities more autonomy
27 avril 2016
University autonomy: insights from Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria
By , and . A new piece of draft legislation could give South Africa’s higher education minister increased power over the country’s universities. More...
18 mars 2016
‘Professional autonomy, reduced workload and teaching for teaching’s sake: Why wouldn’t you teach abroad?’
By Thomas Rogers. Unless there’s a massive change in the culture of English education, not even a Trump-style wall would stem the exodus of British teachers to the burgeoning international schools sector, writes a history teacher and tutor. More...
14 mars 2016
Thorny issue of university autonomy and transformation
By Sharon Dell. While most stakeholders agree that South Africa’s higher education sector needs more transformation, what form transformation should take is still a matter for debate – as is the thorny question of university autonomy: how far the government should be able to go to compel universities to transform. Read more...
16 février 2016
University autonomy improves training quality
In the last decade, the country's tertiary education has seen many changes.
Universities have been given autonomy gradually over the years by the Ministry of Education and Training.
The Government's Decision 153 on University Regulations issued in 2003 said that universities have autonomy rights and responsibilities for planning, development, training programmes, science, technology, finance, international co-operation and personnel.
Moreover, the Law on Education and the government's other resolutions also encouraged universities to carry out autonomy. More...
08 février 2016
Universities and autonomy
By The Nation. It has been reported that the government was contemplating whether to give Vice Chancellors more autonomy to administer universities through the proposed new constitution. The idea seems to be to remove the political control and allow them to develop as independent institutions. Read more...
08 janvier 2016
Renforcer l'autonomie numérique des personnes fragiles
En ce début d’année marqué par la dématérialisation accélérée des services publics, l’Agence du Numérique a signé avec Connexions Solidaires une convention pour renforcer l'autonomie numérique des personnes en situation de précarité, particulièrement touchées par cet enjeu grandissant.
Lire le communiqué et consulter le site de Connexions Solidaires. Voir l'article...
03 janvier 2016
Branch campus academics ‘lack autonomy’, study finds
By Ellie Bothwell. Scholar says academics who move to international outposts do ‘hardly any research’. More...
25 octobre 2015
Free the Satellites
By . The University of Toronto has a problem (several, actually, but I’m trying to keep these short). And the problem is that if you’re not actually at U of T, and someone says “U of T”, what do you think of? The answer, of course, is the St. George campus: that big and occasionally beautiful hunk of land East of Queen’s Park, College, and Bloor.
But what about the other two campuses?
It’s easy to forget about the Scarborough and Mississauga campuses. More...
