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20 septembre 2017

Sidelining of British students to be stopped

Universities admissions will be monitored from next year to ensure British students are not being discriminated against in favour of foreign applicants who can pay more, writes Sarah Knapton for The Telegraph. More...
20 septembre 2017

Controversial bill on higher education clears parliament

One member of Greece’s parliamentary majority voted against the controversial bill on higher education that was approved in the House on 2 August, writes Tasos Kokkinidis for The Greek Reporter. More...
20 septembre 2017

University study less attractive to young people – Poll

The proportion of young people in the United Kingdom who think they are likely to go to university is at its lowest level in years, new figures suggest, with many citing cost as a primary concern, writes Rachael Pells for the Independent. More...
20 septembre 2017

Over 210,000 university quotas unfilled this year

Over half of students who entered Turkey’s national university exam this year did not fill out the necessary application form indicating which university they wished to be placed in, according to student selection and placement results announced on 8 August, reports Hurriyet Daily News. More...
20 septembre 2017

UK university plans post-Brexit campus in Germany

If plans proceed as reported, King's College London will become the first institution for higher education in the United Kingdom to establish a physical campus on the European continent in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, reports Deutsche Welle. More...
20 septembre 2017

Universities face criticism over use of public funds

Serious concerns about the way many third-level colleges spend taxpayers’ money were set out in a report about to be published by the Dáil Committee of Public Accounts, writes Carl O’Brien for The Irish Times. More...
20 septembre 2017

Government cuts 40% of state-funded university places

By Eugene Vorotnikov. The Russian government is pushing on with plans to cut 40% of state-funded places in domestic universities in 2018 and to cut teaching jobs at state universities. More...
20 septembre 2017

Universities under fire for donations from dictatorships

Universities should not accept donations from dictatorships, MPs have said, following a Telegraph investigation into donations made to British institutions by authoritarian regimes, write Camilla Turner and Harry Yorke for The Telegraph. More...
20 septembre 2017

Should universities be run like businesses?

By Jan Petter Myklebust. “Get rid of the madness labelled New Public Management. That is an issue that will engage the voters,” Frank Aarebrot*, one of Norway’s best-known academics told Forskerforum, the researchers’ magazine, last Monday. More...
20 septembre 2017

International students face residency clampdown

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The Swedish Migration Agency has rejected more than 10 residence permits for international students admitted for a study place and grants at Swedish universities, claiming they have not adequately demonstrated that their primary aim for coming to Sweden is to study, according to reports by Radio Sweden or SR. More...
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