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7 mai 2018

Sharp rise in premier papers from universities

An assessment of Brazil’s contribution to high-impact science from 1980 onwards, analysed from the number of papers published in Nature and Science from three of the country’s leading universities, has shown that there was a dramatic increase in their publications in these prestigious journals over the period, write Gabriel José de Carli and Tiago Campos Pereira for Nature. More...

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7 mai 2018

Banking giant launches global student payment service

Global banking giant HSBC has launched an international education payment service, aimed at Chinese students studying abroad, enabling them to pay tuition fees in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Hong Kong, writes Enoch Yiu for South China Morning Post. More...

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7 mai 2018

Assad gives nod to Iranian Islamic university branches

A senior advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader on international affairs, Ali Akbar Velayati, said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has issued a directive to open branches of the Iranian Islamic Azad University in Syria, reports Middle East Monitor. More...

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7 mai 2018

Universities welcome foreigners as permanent lecturers

Indonesian state universities have welcomed a decision by President Joko Widodo’s administration to allow foreign academics to serve as permanent lecturers in the country’s universities, suggesting that they can be a catalyst in boosting the country’s academic achievements, write Moses Ompusunggu, Bambang Muryanto and Apriadi Gunawan for The Jakarta Post. More...

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7 mai 2018

Union accepts proposals in universities pensions dispute

A second wave of strikes at universities in the United Kingdom over a pensions row has been suspended after 64% of members of the University and College Union voted in favour of proposals aimed at resolving the issue, writes Gemma Toulson for the Nottingham Post. More...

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7 mai 2018

Ruling party rams through controversial university bill

The ruling Pakistan Peoples Party once again used its numeric power in the Provincial Assembly of Sindh to pass a controversial bill pertaining to handing over powers of the 24 public sector universities to the chief minister despite a protest and walk-out from opposition parties who termed the bill a bid to destroy the education system, reports The Nation. More...

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7 mai 2018

Universities being held back by old problems – Ministry

A ministerial assessment has found that many Vietnamese universities and institutes are unable to guarantee an adequate education despite rising enrolment of new students at the country’s 235 universities, of which 170 are public and 65 private institutions, writes Thanh Thuy for Asia News. More...

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7 mai 2018

Universities, publishers agree on open-access deals

Despite some difficult negotiations, academic institutions in the Netherlands have been securing subscriptions that combine publishing and reading into one fee, with many universities pushing for scholarly journals to become open access, writes Diana Kwon for The Scientist. More...

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7 mai 2018

Communist Party setting up cells in US universities

Chinese Communist Party cells made up of Chinese students and faculty have appeared in California, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, North Dakota and West Virginia. The cells appear to be part of a strategy, now expanded under Chinese President Xi Jinping, to extend direct party control globally and to insulate students and scholars abroad from the influence of ‘harmful ideology’, writes Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian for Foreign Policy. More...

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7 mai 2018

Economic crisis forces slowdown at universities

Venezuela's universities have long ranked as among Latin America's best. But the acute economic and political crisis has forced students to drop out in droves, and teachers are following them out of the country. More...

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