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24 août 2018

Campus divisions run deep over job quota protests

By Mushfique Wadud. As students and teachers on Bangladesh’s university campuses have become deeply divided over the reservation of government jobs for certain groups, a student at a government-run university was last week suspended for a social media post in support of an ongoing student movement demanding reform in the quota system. More...
24 août 2018

New data red tape could hamper international research

By Yojana Sharma. China’s new regulations restricting the ‘export’ of scientific data collected within the country and asserting that any research for publication in international journals must first be approved by a new, yet to be set up authority, are causing uncertainty and concern for many researchers who are working in collaboration with China. More...
24 août 2018

Why some veterans feel alienated on campus and how universities can help

The ConversationSome veterans say they find campus alienating, don’t feel they belong and fail to disclose their military status when they enrol, according to one of the first snapshots of Australian veterans’ experience of university. More...

24 août 2018

Why the NAPLAN results delay is a storm in a teacup

The ConversationNAPLAN has caused much controversy this year, as has become customary. With the test in its tenth year, the New South Wales government called for it to be scrapped and there were calls for a review after a report found no change in results in a decade. In June a review was finally ordered into the use of NAPLAN information. More...

22 août 2018

Universities must step up to cater for ‘Society 5.0’

By Silvia Richter. Making Japan ‘the most innovation-friendly country in the world’ is one of the Japanese government’s key goals, according to Yuko Harayama, former executive member of the Japanese Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, who discussed Japan’s Comprehensive Strategy on Science, Technology and Innovation at a meeting of German and Japanese researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, on 5 July. More...
22 août 2018

Universities' alliance to fight ‘political interference’

By Mimi Leung. More than a dozen universities in Taiwan have set up a new alliance for university autonomy to counter what they see as ‘political interference’ in universities in the wake of the ongoing saga of the appointment of a new president for National Taiwan University (NTU). More...
22 août 2018

University researchers generate productivity boom

By Geoff Maslen. An analysis by academics at the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group found that the total number of research reports by Australian academics increased from 45,560 in 2006 to 96,565 in 2016 – a rise of 112%. More...
22 août 2018

Bribery allegation shakes higher education sector

By Suvendrini Kakuchi. Japan’s higher education sector has been shaken by the recent arrest of a director-general of the ministry of education suspected of extending a coveted government financial subsidy to a prestigious private medical university in exchange for a place for his son. More...
22 août 2018

‘Institutes of eminence’ named – but not all exist yet

By Shuriah Niazi. India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) last week named six universities selected for their world-class 'Institute of Eminence' status to enjoy heightened autonomy – and in the case of public institutions substantial extra government funding. More...
22 août 2018

Indian conference visa denial sparks scholars’ protest

By Ameen Amjad Khan. Academics have reacted strongly to the denial by the Indian government of visas to Pakistani scholars seeking to participate in an international conference on Asian studies with academics from around the world, and said future international conferences should not be held in any such country where participation is restricted on the grounds of nationality. More...
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