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20 septembre 2017

Is interest in language courses in critical freefall?

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Questions are being raised about the fate of Denmark’s national languages plan following the presentation of the government budget for 2018, which contains barely a trace of measures addressing the plummeting interest in language courses at universities, according to the Danish researchers’ magazine Forskerforum and web newsletter Ugebrevet A4. More...

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20 septembre 2017

MPs want to scrap HE funding and study-time reforms

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The major Danish political parties except for the Social Democrats are now in favour of scrapping the unpopular progress reform introduced in 2013 to speed up student time to graduation, financially penalising institutions that do not meet specified targets, as previously reported by University World News. More...

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20 septembre 2017

Plan to broaden access to HE raises funding questions

By Jan Petter Myklebust. A proposal by the Minister for Higher Education and Research Helene Hellmark Knutsson to broaden access to universities, sent out for consultation last month, has sparked a row over whether it can be achieved without providing more funding for teaching. More...

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20 septembre 2017

Foreign firms to plug universities’ infrastructure gap

By Gilbert Nganga. Foreign financial institutions and private equity funds are lining up millions of dollars to invest in Kenya’s higher education, potentially helping to narrow the damaging infrastructure gap facing the sector. More...

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20 septembre 2017

Parliament moves against student fee defaulters

By Gilbert Nganga. Kenya’s university students who default on fees face a bleak future after parliament recommended that a public university list those students and past students in arrears with credit reference bureaus. More...

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20 septembre 2017

Universities told to issue regular financial reports

By Gilbert Nganga. Kenya’s universities have been ordered to publish regular financial performance reports as part of sweeping regulations which take effect this year, aimed at lifting the veil of secrecy that has shrouded institutions’ financial status and effectively put millions of dollars at risk. More...

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20 septembre 2017

University regulators curtail Kenyan expansion spree

By Gilbert Nganga. Universities are facing a tough regulatory regime that has crippled expansion strategies that have seen Kenya’s universities spread their wings across most areas of the country and into neighbouring countries such as Tanzania, South Sudan, Rwanda and Uganda. More...

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20 septembre 2017

March for Science highlights parlous state of research

By Ranjit Devraj. Thousands of students, scientists and supporters gathered in 30 Indian cities to support the country’s ‘March for Science’ earlier this month. It was an impressive turnout. They were joined by many government scientists despite receiving emails forbidding them from taking part. More...

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20 septembre 2017

University leaders fear rise of hate events on campus

By Mary Beth Marklein. University leaders across the United States vehemently denounced the white supremacist demonstrations that imploded last weekend with the death of a counter-protester in a small Virginia college town. More...

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20 septembre 2017

China tells Hong Kong universities to curb ‘separatists’

By Yojana Sharma and Mimi Leung. China’s official media has hit out at the unfurling of banners backing Hong Kong independence from China at a number of Hong Kong’s universities, putting pressure on the Hong Kong government and on university management to curb such activities. More...

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