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6 octobre 2013

Declaration urges focus on social sciences, humanities

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By Peta Lee. A landmark declaration expected to help shape the future of European research policy was handed to Lithuania's Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis at the conclusion of an international conference on “Horizons for Social Sciences and Humanities” last month. The congress, which was held at Mykolas Romeris University on 23-24 September, was attended by European researchers, university leaders, policy-makers, business people, and representatives from NGOs and civil society groups. More...

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6 octobre 2013

New projects to expand and improve higher education

By Gilbert Nganga. Kenya has lined up major projects in the coming year to boost student enrolment, teaching and research in higher education. They include setting up an open university by the end of next year, doubling the number of universities of technology, training 1,000 PhDs a year within five years, and pumping money into the national research fund. More...

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6 octobre 2013

Federal websites go dark amid government shutdown

By Megan O’Neil, The Chronicle of Higher Education. The budget impasse in the United States that brought non-essential operations of the federal government to a halt last Tuesday also had a major impact on websites used by many educators, researchers and students. The shutdown, which triggered furloughs for approximately 800,000 federal workers and the closing of offices, research labs and national parks across the country, is expected to affect colleges, students and academic scientists only minimally at first. More...

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6 octobre 2013

Top universities shun part-time students – Report

By David Jobbins. England’s elite universities are tending to back away from part-time degree courses in favour of attracting 'high-achieving' full-time students they can recruit outside controls on numbers, the authoritative Higher Education Policy Institute, or HEPI, concludes in a report published on Thursday. More...

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6 octobre 2013

Doubts over ministers’ degrees raised in parliament

By Emilia Tan. An altercation between government and opposition MPs ensued in Malaysia’s parliament this week when government officials appeared to brush off questions about the academic credentials of the ministers of human resources and of science, technology and innovation. Ong Kian Ming, a Democratic Action Party opposition MP, questioned the validity of the academic credentials of Human Resources Minister Richard Riot, who is a former deputy foreign minister, and of Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Ewon Ebin, as well as the qualifications of the CEOs of two major corporations. More...

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6 octobre 2013

Opposition politician faces ‘lifting’ allegations

By Michael Gardner. A leading German opposition politician has been accused of ‘lifting’ in his doctoral thesis. Social Democrat Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who ran for federal chancellor in 2009, denies the allegations.
Steinmeier, chief whip of the Social Democrats, was foreign secretary in the Grand Coalition led by Christian Democrat Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2009. More...

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6 octobre 2013

Government wants to slash size of university councils

By John Gerritsen. New Zealand’s government has proposed a major overhaul of university council membership that would slash the number of members and remove a statutory right to representation for staff and students.
Staff and students are worried by the proposal and have accused the government of treating universities as if they are businesses. More...

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6 octobre 2013

Europe’s ‘ERC goes global’ campaign heads to antipodes

By Geoff Maslen. In the latest instalment of its ‘ERC goes global’ awareness campaign, the European Research Council has sent a delegation to New Zealand and Australia to inform top researchers there of grants it is prepared to award.
The global awareness-raising project was launched in Canada in March last year with subsequent visits by ERC delegations in 2012 to the US and Mexico, South America, Russia, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, South Africa and Ireland. More...

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6 octobre 2013

East Asian universities gain ground on US and UK – THE ranking

By David Jobbins. The erosion of the United States and United Kingdom's domination of global university league tables is continuing, according to analysts reviewing the 2013-14 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, out this week.
While the pace is slower than suggested when last year’s rankings were released, it is apparent that while universities in America and in London are holding their own, institutions in the UK’s regions and in continental Europe are losing out to competitors from Asia – and specifically from China, South Korea, Singapore and Japan. More...

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6 octobre 2013

Will MOOCs help you open career doors?

By Scott Kirsner. We’re living through an incredible moment in the history of learning. Suddenly, anyone with an Internet connection can take courses, for free, from some of the world’s top universities. On sites like Coursera, edX, and Khan Academy, you can learn how to run a clinical trial that will satisfy the Food and Drug Administration, study aircraft design, or dive into the basics of environmental law. More...

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