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20 septembre 2017

Multimillion fund to boost science recruitment

The government is to invest £100 million (US$130 million) into recruiting skilled scientists from around the world. The Ernest Rutherford Fund will be used to provide fellowships for early career and senior researchers. They will come from not only developed economies but also India, Brazil and Mexico – emerging research powerhouses, reports Laboratory News. More...

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20 septembre 2017

UK university plans post-Brexit campus in Germany

If plans proceed as reported, King's College London will become the first institution for higher education in the United Kingdom to establish a physical campus on the European continent in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, reports Deutsche Welle. More...

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20 septembre 2017

China sets up first large-scale university in Malaysia

Beijing’s push for overseas influence extends to the education sector, with the opening of Xiamen University Malaysia outside Kuala Lumpur, write Vincent Bevins and Tom Phillips for the Guardian. More...

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20 septembre 2017

Universities face criticism over use of public funds

Serious concerns about the way many third-level colleges spend taxpayers’ money were set out in a report about to be published by the Dáil Committee of Public Accounts, writes Carl O’Brien for The Irish Times. More...

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20 septembre 2017

Private equity group builds pan-African HE platform

UK-based private equity firm Actis, which specialises in emerging markets, has created a US$275 million higher education platform spanning nine countries in Africa as it looks to cater to rapidly growing educational needs, writes Javier Espinoza for the Financial Times. More...

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20 septembre 2017

Research universities obtain billions from investments

Investments amounting to MYR5.58 billion (US$1.3 billion) by the government in five research universities in the country from 2007 until 2015 generated returns of MYR7.17 billion, reports Bernama. More...

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20 septembre 2017

Most Republicans say colleges are bad for America

America's colleges are harming the country, the majority of Republicans now say. It's a strong downward slide in public opinion that, some experts fear, could exacerbate growing divides among Americans and lead to higher levels of student debt, write Polly Mosendz and Shahien Nasiripour for Bloomberg. More...

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20 septembre 2017

Stressed students demand more time for exams, essays

New figures show that the number of university students demanding extra time in exams due to mental health problems has surged in recent years, writes Luke Mintz for The Telegraph. More...

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20 septembre 2017

Cultural factors at work in social inequality in HE

By Mary Beth Marklein. Higher education scholars gathered in St Petersburg, Russia, recently to explore how they could improve the prospects of marginalised populations, be they Native Americans in the United States, indigenous students in Latin America or Austrians who are the first in their families to go to college. More...

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20 septembre 2017

Misconceptions of internationalisation still prevail

By Hans de Wit. The last few years of debate on internationalisation of higher education have seen a lot of attempts to define it in terms purely of mobility for the few and to suggest that it ignores the local. Such ideas must be countered. More...

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