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26 février 2018

How are universities creating the leaders they need?

By Nadine Burquel and Anja Busch. Strong leadership and management have never been more important in higher education. The pace of global change is extremely fast, new technologies are transforming higher education and geopolitics is placing major challenges on institutional developments. More...
26 février 2018

Internationalism in an era of ultra-nationalism?

By Kevin Evans. Over recent weeks there has been a flurry of statements and announcements about ‘opening the Indonesian tertiary education sector to foreign universities’. I have seen this discourse ebb and flow over the past 25 years. The following summarises some of the most common arguments for and against this proposition. More...
26 février 2018

Government moves to approve private university degrees

By Shadi Khan Saif. The Afghan government has taken more than a decade to approve the issuing of degree and diploma certificates to thousands of students at private universities who failed to get a place in public sector institutions. The first ‘authenticated’ private university diplomas were handed out on 11 February, according to the ministry of education. More...
26 février 2018

First university to start a branch in another state

By Michael Gardner. Representatives of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), in Bavaria, and the Dieter Schwarz Foundation have signed an agreement supporting the development of a Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University campus into a TUM branch. Funding via a specially set up endowment is to support a total of 20 new professorships. More...
26 février 2018

Universities divided over decoupling from the state

By Jan Petter Myklebust. New Minister of Research and Higher Education Iselin Nybø has confirmed that the government is going ahead with work on a feasibility study on university governance, investigating among other models a decoupling of the universities from the state. More...
26 février 2018

PM orders investigation of burglaries of China expert

By Yojana Sharma. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern last week ordered security agencies to investigate break-ins at the home and university office of an academic researching China’s influence in the country. The academic had been warned that she could be targeted if she did not toe Beijing’s official line. More...
26 février 2018

Government seeks grand conversation on education reform

By Brendan O’Malley. The government has announced its three-year education work programme for the first major reform of the entire education system since 1989. More...
26 février 2018

Prime minister announces review of tertiary education

By Brendan O’Malley. The higher education reforms of recent years under which student tuition fees have more than tripled, have made equality of access to university more difficult and have created one of the most expensive systems in the world. More...
26 février 2018

University admissions reform – What effect will it have?

By Gilbert Nakweya. Both public and private universities in Kenya are suffering from significantly reduced student intakes following government changes to university admissions policies which have resulted in a drop in candidates eligible for university study. More...
26 février 2018

Rights groups condemn deportation of academics and others

By Tunde Fatunde. International human rights groups have condemned the Nigerian government for deporting 47 Cameroon nationals, six of whom are university lecturers. They were deported on suspicion of being 'terrorists' and are now being held by security forces in Cameroon. More...
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