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10 octobre 2016

If we don’t need experts, do we need universities?

By Steve Fuller. A striking feature of the rhetoric deployed in the recent campaign to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union was a call to ignore the experts who said that ‘Brexit’ would do irreparable damage to Britain’s standing in the world. More...

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10 octobre 2016

University student accommodation problem growing

By Michael Gardner. Students in Germany are having increasing difficulty in finding accommodation, according to a recent survey covering major university cities. In the majority of the cities examined, the housing situation for students appears to have worsened. More...

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10 octobre 2016

LERU and Eastern European universities join forces

By Jan Petter Myklebust. LERU, the League of European Research Universities with 21 member universities in Western Europe, and a group of seven research universities in Central and Eastern Europe have agreed to work together on key challenges, including within the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research programme, and improve research conditions across the continent. More...

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10 octobre 2016

Liberal arts 'have a bigger role to play in Asian HE'

By Brendan O'Malley. In the rush to compete in global rankings, Asian countries may be over-standardising higher education development without providing sufficient alternative pathways to address the diversified needs of students, according to a new paper published by the Centre for Global Higher Education or CGHE, UCL Institute of Education, London. More...

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10 octobre 2016

Student visas targeted in drive to cut migrant numbers

By Brendan O'Malley. Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced that major new restrictions on overseas students will form a key part of the government’s commitment to reduce immigration. More...

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10 octobre 2016

N Korean leader says university must be ‘world class’

By Yojana Sharma. North Korea’s top higher education institution, Kim Il-sung University in the capital Pyongyang, must advance to become a “world-class institution”, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said in a letter to students, staff and professors of Pyongyang’s institution. More...

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10 octobre 2016

Students sue NYU over ‘subpar’ branch campus education

By Yojana Sharma. In a lawsuit that, if it is successful, could have major implications for the way United States universities teach degrees in overseas branch campuses, three former students of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in Singapore are suing NYU, alleging its now defunct branch in Singapore failed to provide the quality of education they expected. More...

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10 octobre 2016

Universities face funding pressure right across Europe

By Brendan O'Malley. In at least 20 out of 24 European countries, funding for higher education has either been cut or has not kept pace with increases in student numbers, according to new data published by the 2016 Public Funding Observatory. More...

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10 octobre 2016

Online technology will open up global engagement in HE

By Nicola Jenvey. Online learning as a phenomenon must evolve into an accepted form, entrenched as a culture rather than a separate entity within institutions, as there is little point in denying the increasingly significant role it will play in delivering higher education. More...

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10 octobre 2016

Ethical internationalisation for all is not impossible

By Hans de Wit. On 15 July I wrote in my commentary ‘Internationalisation should be ethical and for all’ that in higher education there seems to be a division emerging “between word-class universities – with global research, students and scholars; competing and collaborating across the world; located in vibrant cosmopolitan urban environments; and benefiting from ample (inter)national and private resources – and others struggling with shrinking budgets, less-talented students and scholars, and located in rural or economically challenged areas.” More...

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