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9 février 2018

Japan eyes universities for bullet train training centre

Japan is eyeing three Malaysian universities as partners to set up a training centre in Malaysia to produce skilled manpower if it wins the bid to build the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail, billed as Southeast Asia's largest infrastructure project, reports Bernama. More...

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9 février 2018

Three private universities face closure

Three private universities in Kenya face closure after the higher education regulator recommended that one be shut down, with two others given a year to comply, reports Business Daily. More...

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9 février 2018

Massive strikes set for major universities

The University and College Union has announced that its members at 61 universities will take 14 days of escalating strike action over a four-week period in protest against changes to UK higher education’s biggest pension scheme that would reportedly make members £10,000 (US$14,200) a year worse off in retirement, reports Study International. More...

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9 février 2018

Too few black, Latino students at top state universities

Even though more than half of Mississippi’s public high school graduates in 2015 were African American, they only made up 10% of that fall’s freshman class at the University of Mississippi, writes Meredith Kolodner for The Hechinger Report. More...

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9 février 2018

Graduates from foreign universities are coming home

Where it was once inevitable that those who left to study at prestigious foreign universities would remain on distant shores for years, China’s graduates are now answering the call of home more than ever before – and many are turning down lucrative careers on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley in favour of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, writes Luke Kelly for Forbes. More...

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9 février 2018

Makerere to introduce e-learning as part of ICT policy

Makerere University is planning to introduce e-learning as part of its strategy to increase the number of students yet at the same time decongest the university. The proposal is part of the new revised information and communications technology (ICT) policy and master plan aimed at boosting research, innovation and online learning, writes Saphira Nahabwe for New Vision. More...

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9 février 2018

Top universities accused of BTec snobbery

Top universities have been accused of ‘institutional snobbery’ for failing to recognise vocational qualifications increasingly used by poorer teenagers as a route to higher education, writes Michael Savage for The Guardian. More...

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9 février 2018

University opens centre to promote use of big data

The University of Tokyo has embarked on a quest to unearth Japan’s latent assets that could be worth more than ¥700 billion (US$6.4 billion) – big data held by the public sector, writes Shusuke Murai for The Japan Times. More...

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9 février 2018

University launches country's first degree in yodelling

From the 2018-19 academic year it will be possible to study yodelling to degree level in Switzerland for the first time as the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts is adding yodelling to its folk music programme, offering both a three-year bachelor and a two-year masters degree in the alpine vocal technique, writes Caroline Bishop for The Local Switzerland. More...

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9 février 2018

Are academics dying, unable to afford food, medicine?

By Tunde Fatunde. Non-payment and irregular payment of public university lecturers’ salaries are crippling the country’s institutions of higher learning, causing personal hardship for staff with fatal consequences in some cases, as they can’t pay for adequate food or proper medical care, one union, several medics and some academics are alleging. More...

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