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24 septembre 2018

Internationalisation without loss of identity

By Rowell D Madula. A growing number of overseas students are attracted by the Philippines’ relatively low tuition fee levels, low cost of living and – for students from Southeast Asia – geographical proximity. The country has also been a popular destination for students who want to study English and is sometimes characterised as the home of the world’s ‘budget English teacher’. More...
24 septembre 2018

Global innovators should watch out for China

By Anand Kulkarni. Innovation is becoming increasingly important for the competitiveness and prosperity of nations. The 2018 Global Innovation Index, prepared annually by Cornell University, INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization, examines 126 countries’ performance against approximately 80 indicators and comprises innovation input measures (Institutions, Human Capital and Research, Market Sophistication and Business Sophistication) and output measures (Knowledge and Technology Outputs and Creative Outputs). More...
24 septembre 2018

International students are key to plugging STEM gap

By Jan Petter Myklebust. A new report into private funding of competence building recommends introducing tax incentives to encourage the funding of grants for international students to help plug a historic shortfall in graduates in STEM – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – subjects. More...
24 septembre 2018

Conflict of interest row over minister’s university role

By Anil Netto. The appointment of Malaysia’s new education minister as president of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) has sparked controversy among academics and civil society organisations, who say there is a conflict of interest between his role as education minister and heading one of the country’s 20-odd public universities. More...
24 septembre 2018

Critics say gender bias survey does not go far enough

By Suvendrini Kakuchi. More details are needed to truly understand the extent of a bias against women who took entrance exams for Japan’s medical schools, critics said, after the government this month released some of the results of its survey of medical education institutions carried out after a recent sexism scandal in a medical university entrance examination. More...
24 septembre 2018

An alternative to high tuition fees or fully free HE

By Brendan O’Malley. Targeted free tuition is becoming an increasingly popular choice across the world for governments that are deterred from offering blanket free higher education but find the logic of a progressive student loan system hard to sell to potential students from less well-off families – and to the electorate, according to a new report. More...
24 septembre 2018

Universities demand more funds and more freedom

By Brendan O’Malley. Ireland’s seven universities have published a commitment to a charter to grow and develop university education, “transform performance” in higher education and make the system “sustainable and competitive”. More...
24 septembre 2018

Bill could end discrimination against activist students

By Shafigeh Shirazi and Yojana Sharma. A bill on the right to higher education in Iran approved by the government of President Hassan Rouhani last week has been tabled in the Iranian parliament to end the discrimination against and expulsion of students engaging in political activities on campuses and other students that have been discriminated against by the regime. More...
24 septembre 2018

Universities face new tax over student loans

By Geoff Maslen. Australia’s higher education institutions face a heavy and unexpected new tax for every student who takes out a federal loan to cover the cost of their studies. More...
24 septembre 2018

‘Misled’ parents call for lower private university fees

By Tunde Fatunde. Since the advent of private universities in Nigeria in 1999 – most of which are faith-based – there have been calls for them to reduce their fees which are several times higher than public universities. Leading these calls are those church members whose investments of time and money made possible the establishment of such institutions in the first place. More...
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