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11 mai 2018

Berkeley reviews how to handle controversial speakers

By Chris Qunitana, The Chronicle of Higher Education. If a student group wants to provoke a frenzy with an event at the University of California at Berkeley, it soon may have to tell the administration why, and provide volunteer monitors to deal with any resulting unruliness. More...

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11 mai 2018

Minister demands action to protect campus free speech

By Brendan O'Malley. The universities minister, Sam Gyimah, has demanded action to further protect free speech at universities and has offered to work with the sector to create new guidance. More...

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11 mai 2018

International students left in lurch by US university

By Binod Ghimire and Yojana Sharma. Dozens of students from Nepal have been left in the lurch after an American university revoked full scholarships granted for their undergraduate studies, as they were making final preparations to enrol for this year’s intake. More...

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11 mai 2018

Minister’s decision puts university autonomy ‘in crisis’

By Mimi Leung. Taiwan’s association of publicly-funded national universities has slammed the government for interfering in decisions to hire university leaders, as Taiwan’s new education minister rejected the appointment of the president of National Taiwan University (NTU) – the second education minister to do so, after his predecessor resigned over the issue. More...

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11 mai 2018

International student numbers near half a million

By Yojana Sharma. The number of foreign students studying at universities on the Chinese mainland is closing in on the half a million mark, with 489,200 students in 2017, according to the latest figures from the ministry of education in Beijing released last week. More...

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11 mai 2018

EC proposes budget increases for research and Erasmus+

By Brendan O’Malley. The European Commission (EC) has called for a 30% increase in the European Union’s research budget and a doubling of the budget for Erasmus+ in its proposal for the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-27, which it presented to the European Parliament on 2 May. More...

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11 mai 2018

2iE Centre of Excellence to host workshop, student fair

The International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, is among 22 Africa Centres of Excellence which have made “remarkable” efforts towards addressing regional developmental challenges and promoting applied research, according to the Association of African Universities (AAU). More...

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11 mai 2018

University to host US-funded agricultural research unit

Senegal’s Université Alioune Diop de Bambey will accommodate a regional agriculture centre to revitalise the country’s agricultural potential, with support from a USAID research programme. More...

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11 mai 2018

Falling student numbers – A shift in the HE landscape

By Gilbert Nganga. Private investors and the Kenyan government are staring at millions of dollars in losses as several universities record falling student numbers, leaving universities with significant underutilised capacity. More...

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11 mai 2018

We should expect more student protests, say academics

By Tunde Fatunde. Without greater financial support for higher education from the Nigerian government, academics believe the prolonged student unrest over fee hikes will continue, and possibly become a fixed feature of the higher education landscape. More...

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