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22 août 2018

Visa change could deter incoming international faculty

By Pooja B Vijayakumar. The United States is a highly competitive and sought after country for careers in higher education, given it hosts more than 30 of the highest-ranked 45 institutions. In 2015-16 the US had 4,583 degree-granting universities and colleges out of which 3,004 institutions offered a four-year curriculum. More...

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22 août 2018

Pan-African business school holds first MBA graduation

By Reuben Kyama. The African Leadership University School of Business (ALUSB), Africa’s pre-eminent leadership business school based in Rwanda, graduated its first cohort of pan-African professionals on 7 July at a ceremony held in Kigali, with Rwandan President Paul Kagame and renowned African business leader and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa presiding over the occasion. More...

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22 août 2018

Technical colleges – The new hope for economic growth

By Gilbert Nganga. Kenya has slashed fees for students in technical and vocational education institutions and raised public funding in its latest bid to grow the critical skills base needed to achieve the country’s economic ambitions. More...

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22 août 2018

Universities' alliance to fight ‘political interference’

By Mimi Leung. More than a dozen universities in Taiwan have set up a new alliance for university autonomy to counter what they see as ‘political interference’ in universities in the wake of the ongoing saga of the appointment of a new president for National Taiwan University (NTU). More...

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22 août 2018

University researchers generate productivity boom

By Geoff Maslen. An analysis by academics at the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group found that the total number of research reports by Australian academics increased from 45,560 in 2006 to 96,565 in 2016 – a rise of 112%. More...

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22 août 2018

Bribery allegation shakes higher education sector

By Suvendrini Kakuchi. Japan’s higher education sector has been shaken by the recent arrest of a director-general of the ministry of education suspected of extending a coveted government financial subsidy to a prestigious private medical university in exchange for a place for his son. More...

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22 août 2018

Ten universities still occupied in fight to end machismo

By María Elena Hurtado. The so-called ‘feminist wave’, started in mid-April, that took over by force 22 Chilean universities or faculties in demand for improved sexual harassment protocols, better conditions for female students and an end to ‘machismo’ is on the wane but far from over. More...

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22 août 2018

White Paper sets out Brexit position for HE, research

By Brendan O’Malley. The United Kingdom government has announced its intention to facilitate mobility of students and research talent and “explore” continued participation in European Union science programmes post-Brexit in its White Paper setting out its position on the UK’s future relationship with the EU. More...

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22 août 2018

‘Institutes of eminence’ named – but not all exist yet

By Shuriah Niazi. India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) last week named six universities selected for their world-class 'Institute of Eminence' status to enjoy heightened autonomy – and in the case of public institutions substantial extra government funding. More...

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22 août 2018

Indian conference visa denial sparks scholars’ protest

By Ameen Amjad Khan. Academics have reacted strongly to the denial by the Indian government of visas to Pakistani scholars seeking to participate in an international conference on Asian studies with academics from around the world, and said future international conferences should not be held in any such country where participation is restricted on the grounds of nationality. More...

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