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7 mai 2018

Scholars look for ways to restore respect for expertise

By Mary Beth Marklein. A gathering of United States scholars last week took up the question of how their work can remain relevant in a ‘post-truth’ era, when alternative facts can influence public policy and fake news can be leveraged to try to swing election results. More...

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7 mai 2018

Court ruling backs rights of international students

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The Supreme Court of Sweden on 17 April ruled that Mälardalen University College must pay back international student Connie Dickinson – whose surname is now Askenbäck – two-thirds of the tuition fees she paid for courses at the university college that were not of sufficiently high quality. More...

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7 mai 2018

Inclusion vs free speech a challenge, say HE presidents

By Karen MacGregor. In a survey by the American Council on Education (ACE), 471 university and college presidents stressed the importance of both promoting an inclusive society and protecting free speech on campuses. But an overwhelming 96% said it was more important for students to be exposed to all types of speech than to “protect students by prohibiting offensive or biased speech”. More...

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7 mai 2018

Caution greets private universities twinning requirement

By Wagdy Sawahel. New private universities will not be allowed to operate in Egypt unless they have collaboration agreements with institutions rated among the top 50 universities in the world, according to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The move has received mixed reviews from higher education experts. More...

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7 mai 2018

Academics earn some of the best salaries in Commonwealth

By Munyaradzi Makoni. Among Commonwealth countries, South African higher education institutions offered the highest overall average salaries in 2017 and enjoyed the highest salary increases from 2016 – after cost of living is considered – according to a recent Association of Commonwealth Universities’ survey on academic salaries. More...

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7 mai 2018

Norway sends 250-strong research delegation to China

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Norway’s Minister of Research and Higher Education, Iselin Nybø, led a huge delegation of university leaders and scientists on a visit last week to Beijing and Shanghai, to deepen Norwegian-Chinese research cooperation. The visit was hosted by China’s Minister of Science and Technology, Wang Zhigang. More...

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7 mai 2018

Minister resigns over NTU president appointment fiasco

By Mimi Leung. Taiwan’s Minister of Education Pan Wen-chung has resigned over his refusal to sign off the highly controversial appointment of a new president for National Taiwan University (NTU) until key questions surrounding the appointment had been cleared up. He has been replaced by Wu Maw-Kuen, a Taiwanese-American physicist. More...

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7 mai 2018

EUA condemns ‘intimidation’ of academics via blacklist

By Brendan O'Malley. The European University Association (EUA) has issued a statement strongly condemning the “recent intimidation of academics” in the Hungarian media. More...

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7 mai 2018

Political row stokes ‘ongoing academic corruption’ fears

By Paul Rigg. A row over whether or not the president of the Community of Madrid used her influence to obtain a masters degree has led to 30 university professors from across Spain signing a petition to denounce ongoing ‘academic corruption’ in Spanish educational institutions. More...

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7 mai 2018

Fee waivers bid to draw top students from Asia, Africa

By Shuriah Niazi. The government has begun a drive to attract more foreign students to India’s leading higher education institutions, allocating 15,000 places a year at the top 160 universities and colleges, for at least two years and introducing a new system of fee waivers to attract top talent from Asian and African countries. More...

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