By Paul Kniest. While Albert Einstein is reported to have said that "compound interest was the greatest mathematical discovery of all time", policy advisers in Canberra no doubt consider (budget) relativity as the greatest political tool ever devised to confound and confuse the public. More...
By Andrew MacDonald. In the week that the Turnbull government has been promoting increased public investment to encourage productivity and growth, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is very disappointed that the higher education budget package announced last night will slash $2.8 billion from the sector. More...
By . The Erasmus+ programme was launched in 2014 to streamline education, training, youth and sport actions into one single programme and runs until 2020. Erasmus+ nurtures and funds numerous student and staff mobility schemes as well as regional and international collaboration. The European Commission is responsible for designing and implementing a mid-term evaluation of the programme which will be submitted to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions in December 2017. More...
Pakistan’s universities have never done well in international rankings. Every year the absence of the country's institutions from the upper levels of the QS andTimes Higher Education (THE) league tables is met with complaints and recrimination. More...
The Complete Universities Guide is a ranking of British universities based on sources in the public domain, including the National Student Survey, the Higher Education Statistics Agencyand the Research Excellence Framework (REF), and occasionally from universities themselves. The ranking is basically an attempt to measure quality from the viewpoint of students. More...
The University Technology Transfer and Commercialization Index is based on data supplied by the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). Technology transfer is measured by eight key metrics, patents issued (15%), licenses issued (15%), income from licensing (35%), and start-ups (35%) each of which are presented in normalised and non-normalised mode. A number of leading universities did not take part in the survey. More...
In recent years, there has been a massive expansion of higher education throughout the world, especially in upper-middle income countries. At the same time, there has been an increasing diversity of providers including private institutions, international branch campuses and online providers. These developments have serious implications for the international evaluation and comparison of universities. An article by Elizabeth Redden in INSIDE HIGHER ED discusses a recent report by UNESCO that shows that the expansion of higher education has often been uneven. More...
A new organisation, the Asian Universities Alliance, has just been established at a meeting held at Tsinghua University in Beijing, which will provide most of the funding. More...
In 1964, the Committee of Ministers took the decision to celebrate the Day of Europe, that is the establishment of the Council of Europe, on May 5th. The Council of Europe was created in the aftermath of the Second World War, in the context of a new European structure, contemplated to bring peace and prosperity on the European continent and avoid repetition of the disasters brought about by two annihilating wars since the beginning of the century. More...
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