BBC Research and Development has announced a five-year research partnership with eight United Kingdom universities to unlock the potential of data in the media, reports the BBC. More...A university professor has said the government should provide long-term support for Taiwanese universities in order to boost the competitiveness of the country's higher education institutions, write Phoenix Hsu and Kuan-lin Liu for Focus Taiwan. More...White nationalist Richard Spencer's speech at the University of Florida last Thursday was disrupted by dozens of protesters with raised fists who booed and chanted, "Go home, Spencer" and “We don’t want your Nazi hate”. The event was the latest example of a public university grappling with debates over free speech when it comes to visits from controversial far-right speakers and ensuing protests, writes Katie Reilly for Time. More...There were three new leaders in Quacquarelli Symonds or QS’s annual rankings by region on 16 October, covering 1,000 universities in Asia, Latin America, the Arab region, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and two of the rankings have new entrants in the top three. More...By Shuriah Niazi. India’s new Goods and Services Tax or GST being rolled out throughout the country in a far-reaching tax reform will mean applying to foreign universities will become more expensive, but the main effect will be on students at local universities who will have to pay more for accommodation and other essential campus services. More...By Hans de Wit. Small, developing countries encounter specific challenges when developing an internationalisation strategy for their higher education systems, trying to strike the right balance between their colonial past and the present, local and foreign languages and cultures, brain drain and brain gain, national and foreign accreditations, foreign and national providers and the importance of exports and local human capital. More...By Adriana Perez-Encinas. The international student experience as a concept is growing fast and gaining in importance for higher education educators. Universities around the world offer a wide range of support services to satisfy the needs of students. More...By Athene Donald. Sometimes it feels as if there is little else in newspapers in the United Kingdom beyond Brexit, even if very little of what is written can be more than mere speculation at this stage. We do not have certainty on just about any front. That is not helpful for UK research or UK researchers – be those European Union researchers in the UK, or UK researchers anywhere. More...By Andrei Volkov. At a recent meeting of the Association of 5-100 Universities, a discussion arose about how many universities should remain in the 5-100 Academic Excellence Initiative. Currently 21 universities are in the project. More...By Pushkar and Madhvi Gupta, The Wire. A recent report noted the “menace of inbreeding” at Aligarh Muslim University or AMU. However, academic inbreeding is common to most Indian universities even though it is widely accepted that it has a negative impact on the academic environment and institutional performance. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
