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9 avril 2018

The need for a harmonised approach to refugee education

By Marco Di Donato. Providing a quality education to refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs) and deprived local communities is considered a fundamental way of empowering them and improving their social inclusion. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has repeatedly discussed the importance and benefits of ensuring the inclusion of refugees in national education systems with particular regard to the Syrian crisis and other refugees and immigration cases, as well as ways to achieve this. More...
9 avril 2018

International partnership solution to the bioscience gap

By Carol Ibe. Africa continues to face major socio-economic challenges in its quest to drive economic growth, create employment opportunities and reduce poverty. Scientific advancements can accelerate development across key sectors on the continent, but this would require comprehensive planning, long-term commitment and strategic investments in tertiary education, research capacity building and funding for research and development. More...
9 avril 2018

The quest for truth in the age of demagogues

By Jon Nixon. Ten years ago a global financial crisis shook the neoliberal consensus to its foundations, leaving much of the world precariously balanced between a residual neoliberal economic regime and an emergent populist and anti-liberal order. More...
9 avril 2018

10 universities launch centres to boost entrepreneurship

By Wagdy Sawahel. In a bid to tackle graduate unemployment and contribute towards developing a knowledge-based economy, 10 universities in Libya have launched entrepreneurship and innovation centres (EICs) to produce entrepreneurs equipped to run their own businesses. More...
9 avril 2018

Universities told to deliver rankings data or face cuts

By Yojana Sharma. Prakash Javadekar, India’s minister of human resource development responsible for higher education, has said public universities that do not take part in the country’s rankings could face penalties, possibly funding cuts. More...
9 avril 2018

Universities mourn ‘Mother of the nation’ Winnie Mandela

By Munyaradzi Makoni. The country’s universities last week mourned the death of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, anti-apartheid icon and former wife of democratic South Africa’s first president Nelson Mandela, who passed away in Johannesburg on 2 April at the age of 81 after a long illness. More...
9 avril 2018

Dismay over pro-China hounding of Hong Kong scholar

By Mimi Leung and Yojana Sharma. A group of Hong Kong scholars has expressed concern over a barrage of criticism from pro-China groups against a Hong Kong law scholar, which they say is the most serious against an academic in recent years. More...
9 avril 2018

Cryptocurrency mining attacks mainly target universities

By Wagdy Sawahel. Cryptocurrency mining is the process of generating cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Encryption is used to generate and transfer funds – hence the term cryptocurrency. More...
9 avril 2018

Military use of research pushback in Japan, South Korea

By Suvendrini Kakuchi and Aimee Chung. A number of Japanese universities and research institutions have set up special screening procedures to ensure that research conducted by their scientists is not linked to military use, after the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) called on research organisations to come up with evaluation procedures last year. More...
9 avril 2018

How the decision to triple tuition fees changed history

By Brendan O’Malley. For a good case study in unintended consequences, it would be hard to beat the decision passed after a stormy debate by MPs in December 2010 that went on to imperil not only years of higher education reforms but, inadvertently, the country’s future in the European Union.
Allow me to elaborate. The decision was the vote to pass the fledgling Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government’s bill to allow universities to triple the cap on tuition fees to £9,000 (then US$14,185). More...
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