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23 janvier 2018

Improving access and equity in internationalisation

By Hans de Wit and Elspeth Jones. Concerns about elitism, commercialisation, the high costs of study, corruption, fraud and the challenge of quantity versus quality are common themes across the world in international higher education. But viewed from different global contexts, there may be a range of opinions on who is left out of the internationalisation process, reflected not least in the question of those who ignore versus those who demand a focus on the Sustainable Development Goals. More...

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23 janvier 2018

How can universities remain international post-Brexit?

By Miranda Thomas. Universities in the United Kingdom can truly claim ‘we are international’. One in six of our students are from outside the UK – over 436,000 students. More than 25% of staff are from outside the UK – 55,000 people from more than 180 countries. And 710,000 students are registered on UK programmes overseas. More...

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23 janvier 2018

'Organisational development' could transform universities

By Ina Ganguli. Since 1994, the higher education sector in South Africa has been undergoing changes and challenges. Some of those changes and challenges are due to notions of internationalisation and national calls for transformation. The latter is largely influenced by socio-political and economic developments in the country, while the former is due to globalisation. More...

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23 janvier 2018

Did the USSR top the US on gender equality in science?

By Ina Ganguli. Valentina Tereshkova’s famous flight to space in 1963 became a striking symbol of the Soviet Union’s commitment to gender equality, heralding that Soviet women were indeed on “equal footing with men to advance science, culture and the arts”. More...

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23 janvier 2018

Relaunch of faculty heralds new era in journalism

By Ramadhan Rajab. The Somali National University has relaunched its faculty of journalism and communication – 26 years after its closure in 1991. The faculty will meet the need for formally trained media workers in the country’s growing number of media outlets, and provide expert training for journalists working in a politically sensitive context and facing ongoing conflict with Islamist insurgents al-Shabaab and other armed gangs. More...

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23 janvier 2018

Challenges of promoting social change via fellowships

By María Elena Hurtado. The Ford Foundation’s postgraduate fellows from Brazil, Guatemala and México stand out from their Asian, African and Middle Eastern counterparts for the indelible mark left on them by slavery, exploitation of indigenous people and the United States’ interference in Latin American affairs. More...

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23 janvier 2018

Cairo University sacks five academics over Islamist link

By Ashraf Khaled. Egypt’s main state-run institution Cairo University has expelled five lecturers for having links with the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, the latest in a clampdown on Islamist academics in the Arab country. More...

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23 janvier 2018

Government pulls plan to fight social inequity in HE

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Minister of Higher Education and Research Helene Hellmark Knutsson has withdrawn government proposals to make universities work harder to combat social inequity in access to higher education following strong opposition from within the sector. More...

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23 janvier 2018

New research strategy has an eye on the Nobel Prize

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The Danish government has launched a new research and innovation strategy aimed at both getting value for money from spending on research, innovation and the distribution of knowledge based on research, and ensuring research is of the highest quality. More...

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23 janvier 2018

Why China wants ‘Western-style’ liberal arts education

By Yojana Sharma. As Duke University in the United States prepares to set up an undergraduate liberal arts degree at its campus in Kunshan, China, and with other proposals for liberal arts degrees by foreign universities keen to tap another area of student demand making their way through China's gargantuan approvals system, China’s motivations for setting up ‘experimental’ liberal arts degrees are coming under scrutiny. More...

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