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4 juillet 2018

Need to improve Chinese teaching in UK universities

As the number of learners of Chinese may continue to rise in the future, there is urgent need to improve the quality of Chinese teaching as a foreign language in the United Kingdom higher education sector, participants at an international conference agreed last week, reports Xinhua. More...

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4 juillet 2018

Universities partner to take over major telescope

From 1 July, the Australian National University, based in Canberra, will lead a conglomerate of 13 institutions to run the Anglo-Australian Telescope, located in Coonabarabran in the state of New South Wales, writes Geetanjali Rangnekar for Cosmos. More...

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4 juillet 2018

Who let the thought police invade our universities?

Feminism used to thrive in universities in the United Kingdom. In the good old days when even working-class women could afford higher education, doing a degree was one way that women became involved in activism. How different things are today. The propaganda being peddled within universities is the very antithesis of actual feminism, and anyone who does not adhere to the party line will be severely punished, writes Julie Bindel for Unherd. More...

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4 juillet 2018

Travel ban impacts Oregon’s largest public universities

The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Trump administration's travel restrictions on certain countries directly affects more than 180 international students at Oregon's largest public universities, sparking concern that it could mean the end of attracting students from Muslim-majority countries, like the ones affected by the travel ban, writes Rob Manning for Belleville News-Democrat. More...

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4 juillet 2018

‘Victimhood ideology is destroying our universities’

What South Africa's universities have become over the past years is utterly sickening – the inclusion of the ‘people of colour’ (POC) supper, exclusively for black people, in the Decolonial Winter School programme at the University of Cape Town last week was indicative of the shameful mess our universities have turned into, writes Phumlani Majozi for News24. More...

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4 juillet 2018

Student mental health support must improve

Universities in the United Kingdom are being told to “dramatically improve” support for students with mental health issues and the government has announced that it will award a certificate of excellence to institutions that meet new standards of mental health care, reports the BBC. More...

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4 juillet 2018

Universities acknowledge funding increase

New Zealand’s university vice-chancellors acknowledge the 1.6% increase in tuition subsidies announced last week and hope the government will invest further in the university sector in coming years to ensure it can deliver on its policies to build a resilient and adaptable workforce, reports Scoop. More...

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4 juillet 2018

'Ongoing sexual abuse charges systematically ignored’

The federal government recently began investigating complaints of sexual harassment by a gynaecologist employed at the University of Southern California. The United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has come to the university because allegations of ongoing assault of female students have reportedly been systematically ignored, writes Kate Kennedy for Inside Higher Ed. More...

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4 juillet 2018

Universities to fight extremism with intelligence body

To combat extremism and prevent it from flourishing, universities in Indonesia are planning to work with the National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT) to develop an intelligence body for campuses. This follows worrying findings from the BNPT that many universities have been exposed to radical ideologies, reports The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network. More...

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4 juillet 2018

Universities need to communicate better

African universities’ contribution to society, and policy formulation in particular, is not sufficiently visible to the general public. This is partly because university scientists and researchers have challenges in communicating the information they gather and the knowledge they generate for informing decision-making and consequently national development, writes Maureen Agena for Daily Monitor. More...

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