The University of Canberra is preparing for legal action against the Commonwealth for what it argues is an unlawful cancellation of a A$26 million (US$19 million) federal grant to set up a Centre for Quality Teaching and Learning, writes Emma Macdonald for The Canberra Times.
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Enghelab Square lies at the heart of Tehran’s urban and revolutionary landscape, just metres away from the gates of Tehran University. The site of some of the most pitched battles of the 1979 revolution, the square today bustles as an open-air market of goods. There, among the booksellers and fruit vendors, visitors can buy bootleg DVDs, banned books, drugs and alcohol and, if need be, an entire masters thesis – written from scratch and prepared for oral defence, in less than a month, writes Shervin Malekzadeh for The Washington Post.
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The US State Department has granted Harvard University US$2.5 million to transition a university-run public policy programme in Vietnam into the country’s first independent, non-profit, US-affiliated university in Ho Chi Minh City, write Mariel A Klein and Luca F Schroeder for The Harvard Crimson.
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Al-Azhar University, among the Islamic world's most renowned institutions, is losing respect globally as its leadership sides with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, writes Michael Kaplan for International Business Times.
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Who do you think received more cash from Yale’s endowment last year: Yale students, or the private equity fund managers hired to invest the university’s money? It’s not even close, writes Victor Fleischer for The New York Times.
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By Paul Bergen. Science is built on international partnerships. Researchers in industry and academia collaborate with colleagues across borders and across cultures, but they don’t always have to travel very far to collaborate internationally. Sometimes the journey is just across the hall. Read more...

By Abu Kamara. Higher education would take a giant step in the direction of progress if it made addressing the concerns and needs of postgraduate international students part of the main focus of the internationalisation decision-making processes. Read more...

By Craig Whitsed and Wendy Green. Disruptive shifts emanating from globalisation and emergent technologies are forcing a rethink of traditional approaches to teaching and learning and, importantly, PhD supervision in Australia. Read more...

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Policies on the accessibility of skills and knowledge, the location of industry and networks of local companies could boost the impact of higher education on economic development, says a report published last month in the International Journal of Educational Development. Read more...

By Peta Lee. Over the past three decades, there’s been growing awareness of the importance of internationalisation at all levels – and its myriad accompanying factors such as, for instance, programmes and policies, funding and stakeholder involvement, cross-border linkages and collaboration. Read more...