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29 août 2016

Student loans halted as probe finds over 2,000 'ghosts'

By Esther Nakkazi. Tanzania has suspended student loans amounting to TZS3.2 billion (US$1.5 million) affecting over 2,000 students, some of whom are believed to be non-existent as they failed to show up during a verification exercise. More...

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29 août 2016

Will the new African passport improve academic mobility?

By Munyaradzi Makoni. The African Union Commission has launched an African passport, signalling open, visa-free access to all 54 of the continent’s member nations. However, if this free passage is to benefit higher education and science, it must be accompanied by harmonised qualifications, greater bureaucratic efficiency and infrastructure to support academic mobility, experts say. More...

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29 août 2016

Winners and losers in the ARWU ranking

By Angel Calderon. The Academic Ranking of World Universities, or ARWU, is reputed for its stability from year to year, but the 14th annual edition released on 15 August brought some surprises. There were 38 new entrants to the top 500 (compared to 25 in 2014). Further, some institutions moved up or down more than 100 places. More...

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29 août 2016

Does charging for tuition reduce access?

By John Aubrey Douglass and Patrick Lapid. In an era of significant disinvestment in public higher education by state governments in the United States, many public universities are moving towards a ‘progressive tuition model’ that attempts to invest approximately one-third of tuition income into institutional financial aid for lower-income and middle-class students. More...

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29 août 2016

The gaokao is not the SAT… well, maybe

By John Richard Shrock. Earlier this summer, 9.4 million high school seniors in China took the all-important college entrance exam. The top 75% will be eligible to enter Chinese universities. More...

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29 août 2016

Why the guns-on-campus debate matters for American HE

By Steven J Friesen. As of 1 August 2016, a new law allows concealed handguns in college and university buildings in Texas.
It’s already had an impact on me as professor of religious studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Thanks to this law, I set foot in a federal court building for the first time. More...

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29 août 2016

Evaluating the EU’s Horizon 2020 and designing FP9

By Jan Petter Myklebust. As input to the work programme of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 for the period 2018-20 and the next framework programme – FP9 – Norwegian and Danish authorities have published their recommendations. More...

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29 août 2016

National sexual harassment survey of university students

By Geoff Maslen. The Australian Human Rights Commission is to conduct an independent survey of the nation’s university students to gain greater insight into the nature, prevalence and reporting of sexual assault and sexual harassment. More...

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29 août 2016

Conversations on research policy

By Jan Petter Myklebust. When Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying met with leaders of the governing councils of Hong Kong’s eight public universities in mid-August, just weeks before Hong Kong’s Legislative Council elections on 4 September, students were alarmed it was an attempt by China to put pressure on universities to curb overt displays of “pro-independence” sentiment on campuses. More...

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29 août 2016

Universities warned about ‘independence’ discussions

By Yojana Sharma. When Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying met with leaders of the governing councils of Hong Kong’s eight public universities in mid-August, just weeks before Hong Kong’s Legislative Council elections on 4 September, students were alarmed it was an attempt by China to put pressure on universities to curb overt displays of “pro-independence” sentiment on campuses. More...

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