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20 avril 2018

PM vows to scrap job quotas after huge student protests

By Mushfique Wadud. Nationwide student protests paralysed campuses in Bangladesh last week as students demanded reform of the quota system reserving government jobs for particular groups. More than 100 people were wounded in clashes with police at the University of Dhaka on 9 April as rubber bullets and tear gas were fired to disperse the crowd. More...

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20 avril 2018

The international transformation in student loan systems

By Bruce Chapman and Lorraine Dearden. The University of Bologna, considered to be the first official university, was established in the late 11th century, and some scholars in need of finances were offered loans. This type of provision was not formalised as a student loan system until 1240 when the Bishop of Lincoln did so using money from the University of Oxford. More...

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20 avril 2018

The importance of listening to university stakeholders

By Nita Temmerman. It can be a formidable, revealing as well as exciting and certainly necessary part of any university’s regular planning and improvement agenda to engage in open discussions with its key stakeholders. Students, alumni, staff, community groups, industry and professions as well as governments are all stakeholders in higher education. More...

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20 avril 2018

Campus free speech – Minority rights, democratic values

By Daniel Sekulich. Are students and academics free to speak their minds on university and college campuses in North America? And how should higher education institutions respond when one person’s free speech silences or harms another? These issues were highlighted during the fourth annual Worldviews Lecture, held on 5 April at the University of Toronto, Canada. More...

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20 avril 2018

Tax agreement could deter academics from going abroad

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The Danish government and the Danish People’s Party struck a tax agreement in February that will introduce a residence requirement for the right to receive unemployment benefits. But the proposal has sparked outrage among academics, who say it will deter Danish researchers from gaining international experience and will damage Danish science. More...

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20 avril 2018

New anti-plagiarism laws not tough enough – Academics

By Ranjit Devraj. India’s tough new anti-plagiarism law drawn up by the higher education regulatory body, the University Grants Commission or UGC, which sets out graded punishments depending on the seriousness of the misdemeanour, has been widely welcomed by academics – but many said there needs to be even stronger deterrence to curb copycat tendencies among students and lecturers. More...

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20 avril 2018

Predatory conferences – A case of academic cannibalism

By James McCrostie. To be classified as predatory, the conference organiser needs to meet three criteria: the organiser holds low quality academic meetings for the primary aim of making money – not supporting scholarship; there is no effective peer review, allowing anyone to purchase a speaking slot; and the organiser employs deceit, the most common forms being false claims of peer review, hiding the company headquarters’ true location and concealing the for-profit nature of the company. More...

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20 avril 2018

Rise in vocational graduates enrolled at universities

By Michael Gardner. A recent survey by the Centre for Higher Education or CHE demonstrates that more and more holders of vocational education and training qualifications are enrolling at German universities. In 2016 there were 56,900 students enrolled at universities solely via vocational experience and qualifications – twice as many as in 2010. More...

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20 avril 2018

Get serious about tackling sexual assault on campus

By Miriam E David. In the wake of horrendous cases of sexual abuse and harassment, the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements have shone a spotlight on how activism can work in the public arena. Clearly social media have been incredibly helpful to this international agenda of publicly recognising sexual assaults. More...

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20 avril 2018

Turning talk on higher education diversity into action

By Colin Scott. In an era of mass higher education and globalised competition for students, resources and reputation, if universities are to be successful they need to draw on all parts of society when recruiting and supporting the development of both students and staff. More...

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