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16 décembre 2015

Internationalisation: good, but could do better

By Bernhard Streitwieser, Jennifer Olson, Simone Burkhart and Niels Klabunde. Over the past decade, through efforts at the federal, state and institutional levels, Germany has steadily defined its goals and aligned its priorities for successfully promoting the internationalisation of its higher education system. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

Saudi students abroad Manail

By Anis Ahmed. Since the earliest group of six Saudi students was sent by King Abdul Aziz to acquire higher education in Cairo in 1927, Saudi Arabia has come very far in terms of outward student mobility at the university level. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

The overeducated generation

By Nader Habibi. Since the cost of going to college is an important concern for a large segment of voters, the 2016 presidential candidates are all advocating policies aimed at making a college education more affordable. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

The politics of student satisfaction

By Elizabeth Nixon. There is a lot in a name. The UK government’s green paper proposing the establishment of a new market-focused regulator of English higher education, titled the Office for Students, signifies the triumph of the student reshaped as the sovereign consumer in this latest move to further marketise the sector. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

Collaboration is king

By Lucy Shackleton. The UK is a global player in cutting-edge research. Despite relatively low levels of public investment in this area, UK researchers punch above their weight: the UK represents only 0.9% of the global population, 3.2% of research and development expenditure and 4.1% of researchers, but it accounts for 9.5% of downloads, 11.6% of citations and 15.9% of the world’s highly cited articles. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

Christmas is over for journal publishers

By Paul Ayris. On 12 October 2015, the League of European Research Universities, or LERU, issued a public Statement on Open Access. The statement looked at both the 'Green' and 'Gold' routes for Open Access – the Green involving self-archiving in a repository and the Gold involving publishing in a fully open access journal or website. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

Teaching in English helps fuel rise in US students

By Michael Gardner. Germany is getting more and more attractive for students from the USA, while German students appear to be losing interest in studying in the US. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

UK universities 'win' in Wiki-ranking that charts influence

By David Jobbins. The world’s most 'influential' universities appear in a global university ranking that smooths out linguistic and cultural differences. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

Europe ‘must speed up solutions to grand challenges’

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Europe must increase efforts to invest in and channel research towards tackling the grand societal challenges, according to the Lund Declaration 2015, agreed at a conference in Sweden this month. Read more...

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16 décembre 2015

EU to remove copyright obstacle to data mining

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The European Commission has proposed a mandatory exception for research in the European Union copyright legislation in order to give European researchers and innovators the explicit right to process on a large scale the content to which they have legal access. Read more...

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