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22 août 2018

Scrap income tax levied on universities – Chancellor

The Chancellor of Uganda Christian University, Reverend Stanley Ntagali, has asked government to scrap the income tax which it levies on non-profit education institutions, saying universities are not profit-making institutions, writes Samuel Nabwiiso for East African Business Week. More...
22 août 2018

Overzealous regulators are closing in on universities

Mountains of pointless paperwork are making it nearly impossible for independent Russian universities to survive, with the average length of a course syllabus running to 30-40 pages, 10 times the length of the average syllabus in most universities across the world, writes Grigory Yudin for The Moscow Times. More...
22 août 2018

Universities oppose Trump over affirmative action plan

At least a dozen top universities in the United States have turned their back on the Trump administration’s rollback of Obama-era affirmative action directives. These universities, including five Ivy League institutions, say they plan to continue to use race as a factor in admissions to bolster diversity, writes Michelle Lou for the Huffington Post. More...
22 août 2018

Students braced for water, food threat

Universities must prepare their students for a world in which they will have to face threats from climate change, water and energy scarcity, food insecurity and waste accumulation, Higher Education Commission Chairman Professor Dr Tariq Banuri has told a national workshop on ‘GreenMetric Ranking’, reports Pakistan Today. More...
22 août 2018

Who gets the cream from state and private schools?

The University of Melbourne may have a reputation as an institution for the wealthy and privileged, but new data reveals almost half its first-year students come from state schools, writes Henrietta Cook for The Age. Meanwhile, arch rival Monash University has the highest proportion of first-year students from independent schools, with more than one in three educated in the fee-paying sector. More...
22 août 2018

Dutch universities can teach in English, says court

The universities of Maastricht and Twente can offer bachelor degrees in psychology in English, according to a recent court ruling. A case had been brought by the lobby group Beter Onderwijs Nederland, claiming that teaching these degrees in English broke the higher education and research laws. But the court judgement said that this is not the case, reports Dutch News. More...
22 août 2018

Quarter of universities ‘hide’ potential malpractice

A quarter of British universities are not reporting on potential malpractice, says a Science and Technology Committee report, which looks at what is known about problems arising from errors, questionable practices, and fraud in research, and what can be done to ensure that problems are handled appropriately, reports Parliament.UK. More...
22 août 2018

President gives himself powers to appoint rectors

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree stripping the country’s education watchdog, YÖK, of much of its supervisory powers, and gave himself sole authority to appoint university rectors, reports Ahval. More...
22 août 2018

University to rename stadium following racial slur

The fallout from former Papa John’s chairman John Schnatter’s use of a racial slur continues with University of Louisville President Neeli Bendapudi announcing the university would be removing ‘Papa John’ from the name Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium. The home of the Louisville football team now will be called Cardinal Stadium, reports Reuters. More...
22 août 2018

Project launched to improve web archiving worldwide

Virginia Tech is leading a project to make web archives more valuable to researchers worldwide by developing course materials and cyber infrastructure to teach librarians and archivists internationally how to collect, extract and analyse archived information from the World Wide Web. More...
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