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9 février 2018

Parliament told China is trying to influence campuses

By Yojana Sharma. Organisations that promote the Chinese government’s official view, including on foreign affairs, are present on almost all Australian university campuses and in many scientific organisations, and are used as an extension of the Communist Party abroad, according to a submission to the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security detailing China’s influence in the country. More...

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9 février 2018

Parliamentarians call for release of detained students

By Shafigeh Shirazi and Yojana Sharma. With Iranian authorities still refusing to release exact figures of the number of people detained during protests in a number of Iranian cities in December and early January, Iranian lawmakers as well as academics have written to President Hassan Rouhani and the country’s head of the judiciary Sadegh Larijani calling for the immediate release of student detainees. More...

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9 février 2018

Major higher education reforms secured by senators

By María Elena Hurtado. “Historic” was how Chile’s Socialist President Michelle Bachelet referred to the Congressional approval on 24 January of the higher education reform law and a special law for state universities. More...

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9 février 2018

Despite increase, Arabs still underrepresented in HE

The number of Israeli Arabs pursuing bachelor degrees at Israeli universities and colleges jumped 60% over the last seven years to 47,000 in 2017, a survey by the government’s Council for Higher Education has found, writes Lior Dattel for Haaretz. More...

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9 février 2018

New admissions process to start at 11 universities

Eleven universities in the Yangon and Mandalay regions of Myanmar will implement the new student admissions system for the 2018-19 academic year as a start to giving partial authority to universities, writes Ei Shwe Phyu for the Myanmar Times. More...

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9 février 2018

Government shelves plans for Robert Mugabe university

The government of Zimbabwe has temporarily shelved plans to construct a US$1 billion university in honour of former president Robert Mugabe as it was not a priority at the moment, writes Xolisani Ncube for NewsDay. More...

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9 février 2018

Glass ceiling for Scotland’s female academics

Scottish universities are lagging behind the rest of the United Kingdom in the proportion of female academics who are given professorships. New figures show just 23.7% of professors at Scottish universities are women, despite the fact they make up 44% of the academic workforce, writes Andrew Denholm for The Herald. More...

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9 février 2018

Data suggests universities contribute to unemployment

Unemployment rates among university graduates hit 23% last year in Jordan, according to the latest official statistics. The unemployment is uneven across gender: nearly 27% of unemployed university graduates are male, while almost 68% are female. Why can Jordan graduates not get jobs? asks Ammar Faris for Al-Fanar Media. More...

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9 février 2018

New bill brings technological universities a step closer

The creation of new technological universities has moved a step forward after legislation paving the way for the move was passed by the Dáil. The Technological Universities Bill provides for the merger of existing institutes of technology and the creation of a new category of university, writes Carl O’Brien for The Irish Times. More...

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9 février 2018

Private institutions to benefit from law revision

A revision to Vietnam’s Law on Higher Education should create more favourable conditions for private institutions in tertiary education, reports Viet Nam News. More...

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