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9 avril 2018

Study finds widespread hunger in colleges

A report has found that more than one-third of college students in the United States say they don't have enough money for food, with some even going whole days without eating as they simply cannot afford meals, writes Ewan Palmer for Newsweek. More...

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9 avril 2018

Court outlaws second screening of university candidates

By Tunde Fatunde. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has indicated it will appeal a recent high court ruling outlawing the 13-year-old practice among individual universities of re-screening university candidates who have already passed the national admission test known as the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). More...

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9 avril 2018

Free university tuition is ‘in the law and here to stay’

By María Elena Hurtado. Registration and free education – a policy instigated by Chile’s vocal student movement that staged massive protests demanding quality, free, not-for-profit education – has been Chile’s main achievement in higher education in the past decade. More...

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9 avril 2018

Will Nordic model of higher education survive reforms?

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The Nordic region is awash with higher education reform plans at the moment, which may bring challenges for its characteristically well-funded model of higher education and research. More...

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9 avril 2018

Universities can lead recovery from shock of austerity

By Makki Marseilles. Without a doubt the austerity measures imposed on Greece by its European partners more than seven years ago seriously affected the country’s universities and other higher education institutions. More...

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9 avril 2018

Internationalisation confronted with far-right gains

By Michael Gardner. Nineteen years into the Bologna Process, Germany can look back on a bumpy transition to Europe-wide recognised university degrees, but has also experienced increasing popularity as a country to study in. However, the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland), the country’s largest opposition party, wants to see a U-turn in internationalisation. More...

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9 avril 2018

Momentous university open door policy abandoned

By Geoff Maslen. A decision by the then Labor government in 2008 to lift federal restrictions on university enrolments opened higher education to thousands of young Australians who may never have gained entry to a campus. More...

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9 avril 2018

The changing pattern of internationalisation in Africa

By Goolam Mohamedbhai. Recently, there has been an interesting debate in University World News on the future of internationalisation of higher education. Philip Altbach and Hans de Wit predict a halt, if not an end, to the process, especially in Europe and North America. More...

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9 avril 2018

An optimistic narrative for higher education ahead

By Sharon Dell. Currently grabbing headlines and making a stir is Harvard-based cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker’s new book Enlightenment Now. In it Pinker argues, among other things, that on all objective measures of human progress over the long term, things are pretty much improving for Earth’s inhabitants. More...

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9 avril 2018

Economics is chipping away at the soul of US colleges

By Mary Beth Marklein. The United States was heading into the Great Recession of 2008 when University World News published its first edition in 2007. So it should not be surprising that the most significant challenge faced by US higher education in the past 10 years is nothing new: rising tuition and other fees paid by students. More...

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