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4 mai 2014

Erasmus+ will support 250,000 Brits to study abroad

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By Peta Lee. There will be study or work abroad opportunities for 250,000 Brits between now and 2020, under the Erasmus+ mobility scheme of the European Union, which was launched in London last Monday. Twice as many students going to Britain than UK students going abroad needed to change, said the European Commission's Androulla Vassiliou. Read more...

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4 mai 2014

Will data protection legislation harm science?

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The European University Association, or EUA, has highlighted potential threats to research posed by the European Parliament's suggested amendments to a proposal for new European data protection regulations. It is also among more than 60 organisations and academics to have signed a joint statement against the rules.
In 2012 the European Commission drafted comprehensive reforms to the European Union's data protection rules to, it said, “strengthen online privacy rights and boost Europe's digital economy”. Read more...

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4 mai 2014

Postgraduate studies shunned as free tuition scrapped

By Yojana Sharma. The Chinese government's decision to scrap free tuition for postgraduate studies – including masters degrees and PhDs – is driving more graduating students to enter the job market instead of remaining in higher education. The trend is likely to intensify the graduate unemployment problem in the country this year. Read more...

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4 mai 2014

Federal audit stuns science community

By Geoff Maslen. A 'razor gang' operating under the title of a “commission of audit” established by Australia's conservative federal government has called for sweeping changes to the national economy that include widespread cuts in spending and abolition of major science projects with modification of others. Read more...

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4 mai 2014

Higher education faces another major upheaval

By Geoff Maslen. Australian universities are preparing for one of the biggest shake-ups higher education has experienced since a Labor government reshaped the sector by consolidating universities and colleges of advanced education in the late 1980s.
Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne appears to be preparing the ground to extend federal funding to for-profit universities and non-university colleges to create a United States-style system in Australia. Read more...

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4 mai 2014

US branch campus abroad for American students

By Wagdy Sawahel. In an effort to advance the internationalisation of higher education and create global citizens, the University of New England, or UNE, has opened a campus in Tangier, northern Morocco – the first American institution of higher education to open a campus in Africa for its US students. Read more...

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4 mai 2014

First Arab-French University planned

By Wagdy Sawahel. A first joint university involving France and Arab states is to be established in the Egyptian capital Cairo, aimed at enhancing higher education and research collaboration. The Arab-French University initiative was announced during a visit of the French Arab Universities Union to Benha in northeast Egypt on 16 April...
Besides already having the French University in Egypt, which was established in 2002, and the 2010 Franco-Egyptian Year of Science and Technology, on 8 April the French embassy and the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology in Egypt unveiled an Egyptian-French scientific partnership called “Amenhotep”, which aims to encourage joint research programmes. Read more...

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4 mai 2014

Are Hackathons The Classrooms Of Tomorrow? My journey to the frontier of education

By Brian Mathews. Last weekend I unexpectedly stumbled into a learning community. It was at a hackathon on my campus called VT Hacks. I was familiar with these types of events at places like Facebook and even in academic libraries, but this was my first opportunity to attend one. I knew people would be writing code, but I didn’t anticipate the wide range of hardware that they would be programing: quadcopters, glass, Kinect, iBeacons, 3D printers, leap motion, Pebble watches, Fitbits, oculus Rifts, and Raspberry pi. It was eye opening. More...

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4 mai 2014

Putin and Rationality

By David Silbey. Shorter John Cassidy: Putin may have a set of motivations that are rational by his lights, but I think he’s crazy:
Putin is a Russian nationalist[*] through and through, and, historically, an important part of Russian nationalism has been expansionism. When you are dealing with a something as combustible as that, you can’t always rely on rational behavior to prevail. More...

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4 mai 2014

Random Friday Notes: Jobs Report, Benghazi, and Evil Plane Seat Booking Behavior

By David Silbey. Job reports. In the latest form of blog posts/newspaper articles, we have the “The jobs report is good/bad on the surface, but bad/good underneath” genre. We got a bumper crop of it after today’s release. Yes, I know that today’s report was not of unalloyed good cheer, but 288,000 jobs added is a solid result for this economy, as it squelches along in an era obsessed with austerity. More...

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