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10 juillet 2018

Has teaching in higher education become redundant?

By Wafa Singh. Today, we live in a ‘Google’ world, where we have all information, data, facts and theory at one click of the fingertip. For the ‘tech-savvy’ NextGen, Google has become their ‘go-to’ solution. For anything they need, they turn to the internet search engine and the answer is with them, in micro-seconds. More...
10 juillet 2018

Demand for institution to be upgraded to university

By Shadi Khan Saif. A leading public sector teacher training institute in Afghanistan has remained in lockdown for nearly two months over demands by students and teachers that it be upgraded to a university to provide better job opportunities for its graduates, higher salaries for faculty members, and enhance the recognition of their credentials in a difficult job market. More...
10 juillet 2018

Financial costs deter thousands of masters students

By Geoff Maslen. More than 130,000 Australians are undertaking one or other of nearly 1,200 masters degrees by coursework offered by the nation’s universities. But while a masters degree has become the required qualification to gain entry to an increasing number of occupations, the cost deters many students. More...
10 juillet 2018

Brexit risks for Danish higher education and research

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Danish universities are concerned about the lack of focus on higher education in the Brexit negotiations so far. More...
10 juillet 2018

EU students’ post-Brexit loans and fees guaranteed

By Brendan O'Malley. The Department for Education in the United Kingdom has announced that European Union students starting courses next year (2019-20) in England – months after the UK is due to leave the EU – will remain eligible to receive government-backed loans to cover their tuition fees for the duration of their courses. More...
10 juillet 2018

Drop in applications expected to hit universities hard

By Eugene Vorotnikov. Russian universities are expected to face a shortage of applicants during this year’s enrolment campaign, scheduled for this month, due to a sharp decline in the youth population, according to a report of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and statements of some senior officials of the Russian federal government. More...
10 juillet 2018

New regulatory body will push HE quality and autonomy

By Shuriah Niazi and Yojana Sharma. The Indian government has put forward two draft acts to dismantle its existing higher education regulatory body, the University Grants Commission (UGC), and replace it with a new body with a reduced role over university financing but greater powers in areas which the government says will improve academic standards. More...
10 juillet 2018

Ministry ends hundreds of Sino-foreign HE partnerships

By Yojana Sharma. China’s official media is fond of publicising the hundreds of collaboration agreements and memorandums of understanding signed with foreign universities in recent years, but not all come to fruition and many that do turn out to be unsustainable or of low quality. More...
10 juillet 2018

Urgent need to address ethics of artificial intelligence

By Yojana Sharma. Students and researchers must be better prepared to deal with ethical issues in the use of big data, robotics and artificial intelligence so that research and applications are not used for nefarious purposes, including weapons of war, a conference of Pacific Rim university presidents heard recently in Taipei, Taiwan. More...
10 juillet 2018

First digital production laboratory opens in Kinshasa

The Agence Universitairede la Francophonie (AUF) and the Orange Foundation DRC have launched the Democratic Republic of the Congo's first digital production laboratory. More...
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