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23 janvier 2018

Black academics soon to outnumber whites – Study

Although more than 80% of the country’s population is black, its academic sector has remained disproportionately white – a legacy of the apartheid era. But over the past decade, the proportion of black South African researchers has risen steadily: from 26% in 2005 to 35% in 2015, according to a study published in Higher Education last month, writes Sarah Wild for Nature. More...
23 janvier 2018

When academics become targets of student violence

By Wagdy Sawahel. Algerian universities are witnessing growing incidents of violent attacks and physical assaults by university students on academic staff. While some of the attacks are politically motivated, others are not. All of them, however, threaten the dignity and safety of staff and negatively impact on the teaching profession and the student learning process, say experts. More...
23 janvier 2018

Row over 40% gender quota for reading lists at Lund

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Erik Ringmar, a senior lecturer in political science at Lund University in Sweden, ignited a heated debate on 28 October when he wrote in a blog that it had been impossible to find enough women authors for a course in fascism and totalitarianism to achieve a decade-old policy at Lund that women authors should account for 40% of recommended literature. More...
23 janvier 2018

Robots bring Asia into the AI research ethics debate

By Yojana Sharma. Universities in China and elsewhere in Asia are belatedly joining global alliances to promote ethical practices in artificial intelligence or AI, which were previously being studied in university research centres in a fragmented way. More...
23 janvier 2018

The missing link for SDGs – Community-based researchers

By Budd L Hall and Rajesh Tandon. Community-based participatory researchers from universities and civil society organisations from 10 countries gathered in New Delhi in India in mid-November to kick off the Knowledge for Change or K4C Global Consortium. More...
23 janvier 2018

Black academics soon to outnumber whites – Study

When European leaders gathered in Gothenburg to applaud the European Pillar of Social Rights and think blue-sky thoughts about the future of Europe on 17 November, the European Commission and European leaders came prepared with a surprise: potential reforms in education policies. More...
23 janvier 2018

Educating transformative entrepreneurs at university

By Ross VeLure Roholt, Jennifer Catalano, Robert Hollister and Alexander Fink. A growing number of universities around the world offer programmes that educate students to be entrepreneurs. This is an exciting and promising trend in light of the global youth employment crisis. More...
23 janvier 2018

Internationalisation vs Japanisation

By Deren Temel. Japan has too many vacant jobs. In 2017, Japan’s low birth rate and relative economic recovery left 1.43 job vacancies for every applicant in all sectors and skill levels. In Tokyo, Japan’s white-collar capital, there are two jobs for every one applicant. More...
23 janvier 2018

The case for more liberal arts and science degrees

By Simon Marginson. STEM-educated leaders of the tech sector have developed a new form of public space which has not just been contaminated by, it has been captured by a populist politics that radically undermines the values of higher education, jettisons validated and creative knowledge, and deepens the divide between universities and the public interest. More...
23 janvier 2018

New funding may see spinoffs for African universities

By Munyaradzi Makoni. African universities stand to benefit – through partnerships – from the German Research Foundation’s new annual €533 million (US$626 million) seven-year Excellence Strategy that seeks to stimulate competition among universities in Germany, according to a foundation spokesperson. More...
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