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11 mai 2018

Stop commercialising education, students urge government

Hundreds of students from various universities in Medan, North Sumatra, staged a rally last Wednesday to call on the government to stop what they call the commercialisation of education, writes Apriadi Gunawan for The Jakarta Post. More...

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11 mai 2018

US physician fights Ukraine’s medical academic mafia

By Ararat L Osipian. You’re fired! So says Ul’yana Suprun, a retired United States radiology physician with Ukrainian last name and roots. She says so because she now serves as the acting minister of health of Ukraine. And she says so to rectors of Ukraine’s notoriously corrupt medical universities. More...

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11 mai 2018

Family fears for health of scholar sentenced to death

By Sofia Karlsson and Denis Aslan. Evin Prison in Tehran was built in 1972 under the reign of Shah Pahlavi. The facility includes an execution yard, a courtroom and separate departments for male and female prisoners. More...

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11 mai 2018

The challenge of harmonising research ethics standards

By Grace Karram Stephenson and Emmanuelle Fick. At universities in Canada, as in many other countries, professors must have their research plan approved by the research ethics board or REB at their institution before they can launch their study. This process ensures that participants are not exposed to physical or psychological harm. More...

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11 mai 2018

Towards a Bologna Digital strategy for higher education

By Dominic Orr, Peter van der Hijden, Florian Rampelt, Ronny Röwert and Renata Suter. Twenty years after the Sorbonne Declaration, the key challenges of opening up higher education, improving the quality of teaching and learning, reforming assessment and recognition and promoting internationalisation and mobility remain the same for all countries in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). We believe that digitalisation can significantly contribute to overcoming them. More...

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11 mai 2018

Preparing students to face the unknown unknowns

By Patrick Thaddeus Jackson. The complaint that international affairs education is in crisis is not new. Its most recent iteration came after the publication of the rankings of international studies programmes in the United States from the Teaching, Research and International Policy Project at the College of William and Mary. More...

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11 mai 2018

Funding for fundamental research is under threat

By Gwilym Croucher. The United States has been the leader in fundamental research for the past seven decades, remaining the single-largest contributor to worldwide research, but this is changing. In 2000 the US accounted for 40% of global research and development (R&D) output, reducing to 29.3% by 2013. A central reason for this reduction is China’s investment, which will likely surpass the US in total R&D funding by 2019. More...

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11 mai 2018

University considers a name change to avoid confusion

By John Gerritsen. Victoria University of Wellington is considering changing its name because it is repeatedly confused with other institutions around the world with a similar name. More...

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11 mai 2018

New Commonwealth scholarships honour Queen’s role

By Paul Flather. Commonwealth ties are to be enhanced across the 53 member nations over the coming years with the announcement of 150 new graduate scholarships, named in honour of the head of the Commonwealth and testament to her widely admired decades of service. More...

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11 mai 2018

Pact to attract 10,000 more STEM candidates by 2025

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The Danish government has launched a Technology Pact with more than 80 partners from higher education and research institutions, business organisations, non-profit organisations and private foundations. More...

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