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21 juin 2018

Love Island gets more applicants than top universities

Once again the British nation has been struck with a case of Love Island fever with recent statistics showing that more than double the number of people applied to star in the raunchy reality television programme than they did to study at Oxford and Cambridge universities combined, writes Abigail Rabbett for Cambridge News. More...

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21 juin 2018

Minister wants more control over internationalisation

Minister of Education Ingrid van Engelshoven says higher education in the Netherlands must be able to internationalise further, but only if it improves the quality of education and if Dutch students are not displaced, writes Janene Pieters for NL Times. More...

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21 juin 2018

Concern over growing enrolment through online degrees

Experts are concerned at plans by India’s higher education regulator, the University Grants Commission, to establish new regulations for online education, which are expected to come into effect from the 2018-19 academic term, writes Shreya Roy Chowdhury for Scroll. More...

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21 juin 2018

Universities eye liberated towns for new faculties

Turkish universities are to join rebuilding efforts in parts of Syria liberated from terrorist groups, with Gaziantep University in the eponymous Turkish province on the Syrian border planning to establish a department in Jarablus, while Harran in Sanliurfa, another city near the border, is to set up a faculty in al-Bab, reports the Daily Sabah. More...

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21 juin 2018

Minister calls for universities to be more open

There will be no restriction on any educational programme, debate, forum or discourse at the public universities, said Malaysia’s Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik, as he urged university vice-chancellors and their deputies not to impose such restrictions as higher education institutions are supposed to be an open intellectual field, writes Siti A’isyah Sukaimi for New Straits Times. More...

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21 juin 2018

Green Campus set to bloom at universities

To introduce the concept of a ‘Green Campus’ in Pakistani universities, the Higher Education Commission organised a consultative meeting of a working group of 15 universities to deliberate on Universitas Indonesia’s UI GreenMetric World University Rankings on World Environment Day on 5 June, reports The News. More...

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21 juin 2018

Elite universities improve teaching scores after review

Some of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious universities have improved their scores for teaching standards after they requested to be judged again in official rankings, writes Eleanor Busby for the Independent. More...

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21 juin 2018

Crypto-company gives US$50 million for research

Crypto payments company Ripple has announced a new US$50 million fund to finance university research into blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies after partnering with 17 universities around the world for the new project, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University College London, Princeton University and the Australian National University, writes Oscar Williams-Grut for Business Insider. More...

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21 juin 2018

University staff may strike over pay battle in court

A fresh round of university staff strikes loom in Kenya as unions plan to return to the courts over a pay increment row, with the Universities Academic Staff Union due to file a case at the Employment and Labour Relations Court demanding a fresh offer from the government, writes Augustine Oduor for the Sunday Standard. More...

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21 juin 2018

Universities must prepare needs-based budgets

Most Nigerian top-level managers, when they need to go for training, end up going to Harvard University or the London School of Economics, but training could be done in Nigeria – if a needs-based budget is adopted by universities, according to Professor Olufemi Bamiro, writes Modupe George for the Nigerian Tribune. More...

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