By John Morgan. Plan to deregulate fees wholesale dropped, but alternatives floated in discussion paper. More...
15 mai 2016
14 mai 2016
Robot to sit China's national college entrance exam in 2017
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A robot is being designed to compete with 12th graders during the college entrance examination in 2017 and get a score qualifying it to enter first-class universities in China, according to Huaxi Metropolis Daily. More...
13 mai 2016
Rushed reform benefits no one in the end
By . For students and universities, the 2016-17 budget held few surprises. “Full deregulation” is dead and the budget provided a one year deferral on the cuts to teaching which have not yet passed parliament. More...
11 mai 2016
Touchstone on universities and clever Australia
The challenge of universities is to be more engaged with adding value to the competencies of their students in a supportive research environment. Competencies are broader than cognitive skills and extend also to the behavioural side. More...
11 mai 2016
Financial Performance of Australian Universities in 2014
The latest publicly available financial data for Australian Universities are for 2014. Universities sourced revenues of $27.15 billion and expended $25.34 billion for their higher education and independent operations. Some 60.4% of funding came from government sources, including HECS payments. The University of Melbourne had the most revenue at $2.12 billion, equivalent to $590,440 per academic staff FTE. Five universities had revenues of more than $1.6 billion. These five highest revenue earners had a combined income that was more than the total revenues for the 22 smallest universities. More...
9 mai 2016
University creates cheap, touchable ink for the blind
Researchers at Thammasat University in Thailand have created something called Touchable Ink that will potentially make it a lot cheaper for the blind to read, writes Aloysius Low for CNET. Read more...
9 mai 2016
Activists call for nationalisation of universities
Activists said that tighter regulation and moves towards nationalisation – not tuition hikes – are the answers to falling student numbers pushing many universities towards the fiscal brink, writes Abraham Gerber for the Taipei Times. Read more...
6 mai 2016
Group of Eight welcomes Government's response to the "Watt Review"
The Group of Eight (Go8), Australia’s group of leading research intensive universities welcomes the Government’s positive response to “The Review of Research Policy and Funding Arrangements” carried out by Dr Ian Watt.
“The Watt Review has made pertinent suggestions regarding the future of research funding and it is a positive step that the Government has been willing to endorse them,” says Vicki Thomson, Chief Executive of the Go8. More...
6 mai 2016
Michiko Suzuki, JASSO, Japan
By Beckie Smith. Student inertia, a language barrier and strengthened higher education systems across ASEAN countries are just some of the hurdles standing in the way of Japan’s ambitious targets for both inbound and outbound student mobility. Michiko Suzuki, executive director of student exchange at the Japan Student Services Organisation, considers how the country can rise to the challenge. More...
6 mai 2016
Hung-Duen Yang, Minister of Science and Technology, Taiwan
By Beckie Smith. This month, Hung-Duen Yang will leave his role as president of Taiwan’s National Sun Yat-Sen University to take up his post as Minister of Science and Technology in the newly-appointed cabinet. More...
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