A group of 27 of the world’s top universities together produce more research than all but two of the world’s major industrialised nations, including Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. More...By Emmanuelle Fick and Grace Karram Stephenson. It was a cold grey morning in Ontario, Canada’s largest province, at 7am on 16 October last year, when 12,000 faculty members from 24 colleges donned their jackets, picked up their protest signs and began their protest. More...By Yojana Sharma. There has been a “growing top-down backlash” in the wake of Hong Kong’s 2014-15 student-led Umbrella Movement protests, with the authorities trying to limit academic freedom and bring academia under their control, according to a new report from Hong Kong Watch. More...By Mimi Leung. Two students at Hong Kong Baptist University were suspended last week after campus protests over compulsory Mandarin language being required for students to graduate. The protests took on a political tone as Mandarin is the language of mainland China, while Hong Kong’s official languages are Cantonese and English. Hong Kong Baptist University, along with other main public universities in Hong Kong, teaches in English. More...By Shuriah Niazi. Alarmed at the high rate of unemployment among India’s engineering graduates and the gap between their skills and the demands of employers, crucial changes in the curriculum for engineering and technical courses have been announced to make them less theoretical and bring them more in tune with industry’s requirements. The changes will be implemented in the current academic year 2017-18. More...By Susan V Berresford. The world today needs a fresh pipeline of leaders to strengthen work on inequality and exclusion. The old ways of generating leaders are sound, but on their own insufficient to meet the world's need to address inequality. More...By Fatumah Birungi. I couldn’t imagine myself studying for four years outside my home country – Uganda – and in a different language – Spanish. It was probably the toughest decision I have ever had to make. However, at this moment, I can honestly say it was the best decision I ever made and I am so fortunate to have had the opportunity to study abroad in Costa Rica. More...By Carolyn Muriel Shields. In 2007, Nelson Mandela stated that “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” and in some ways, this concept was reflected in the series of articles published over a year straddling 2016 to 2017 in University World News in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation, on the University World News Transformative Leadership hub. More...By Michael Gardner. Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) are discussing a grand coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU), having reached agreement on a number of issues, including higher education and research, in lengthy exploratory talks. More...By Ararat L Osipian. Ukraine’s universities have no money to pay heating bills and have had to close their doors and send students on extended holidays until spring. The heating problem has affected universities throughout the country and has included its flagship higher education institution, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
