By David Jobbins. China’s universities are rapidly closing the gap on the top global institutions, compilers of the latest Times Higher Education BRICS and Emerging Economies Rankings say. BRICS is the acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Read more...
By Ellie Bothwell. China has reinforced its dominance in the Times Higher Education BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings 2016, claiming half of the top 10 places. More...
By David Matthews. Allowing private sector to flourish is best route to vastly increase access to ‘good, not great’ higher education, BRICS summit hears. More...
From October 26th to 28th, the Global University summit BRICS was held on the premises of four top-ranked Moscow universities: MGIMO, Lomonosov Moscow State University, People’s Friendship University and MISA. The event was put together as part of the 2015 Russian presidency of BRICS with the support of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. More...
Par Institut Montaigne. En février dernier, le gouvernement indien annonçait une croissance économique supérieure à la croissance chinoise pour les trois premiers mois de l’année 2015 (7,5% contre 7%). Pourtant, à rebours de ce succès présumé, les derniers chiffres publiés par l’étude Doing Business 2016 de la Banque Mondiale, évaluant la facilité à faire des affaires à travers le monde, classent l’économie indienne 130ème sur 189, loin derrière les autres BRIC. Voir l'article...
The BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – last Wednesday signed a far-reaching agreement on cooperation in education that includes joint research and more collaboration in postgraduate training and co-publishing. Read more...
By Jan Petter Myklebust. The government is to phase out its Quota Scheme for international mobility and plough 40% of the money saved into two-way institutional collaborations and research collaborations with BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – and Japan. Read more...
By . A few months back, I finished reading The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession: The BRICs and the United States (edited by – among others – Phil Altbach and Liz Reisberg). It’s a good book for two reasons: first, it contains pretty good thumbnail sketches of the four BRIC countries’ higher ed systems, and second, it shows how crazy and fragile academics lives are in most of the world. More...
By . Brazil is the smallest and probably the least-known of the BRICs. It doesn’t have a big economy or a big diaspora like China or India, and it isn’t a former superpower like Russia. But it is still the second-largest country in the Americas, and with more Brazilian students heading abroad, it’s a country well-worth knowing more about. So here goes:
First, it’s a pretty young system. The first functioning university – Universidade de Sao Paolo (USP) – was founded in 1934 (prior to that, individual faculties of law and medicine existed, but did not comprise a full university). That’s maybe not a huge surprise given that former colonial master Portugal only got it’s second university (Coimbra) in 1911. And until 1968, there really wasn’t much by the way of a full-time teaching corps: most profs had jobs elsewhere, and taught part-time for the prestige. More...
Times Higher Education BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings 2016 will include 200 universities for the first time. More...
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