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9 novembre 2018

At least three UK universities on ‘verge of bankruptcy’

Three English universities are on the verge of bankruptcy, research has found. Other educational institutions are also struggling, surviving only by resorting to short-term loans, it has been claimed, writes David Harding for Yahoo! News. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Professors criticise government over campus drug dealing

Professors at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki have co-authored a document to protest against rampant drug dealing inside the premises of the institution. It calls on authorities to take immediate measures to remove drug traffickers operating freely on the campus, reports ekathimerini.com. More...

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9 novembre 2018

French HE schools aim to stop student brain drain

Several prestigious French grandes écoles have set up branches in Morocco to help stem the brain drain of young Moroccans who leave to study in Europe.
In 2018 alone, almost 40,000 young Moroccans went to study in France, the biggest national contingent of foreign students there, reported the French newspaper Le Monde. More...

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9 novembre 2018

US and UK gain as China, Japan, France slip in ranking

The United States and United Kingdom remain at the top of US News and World Report’s 2019 Best Global Universities ranking, announced on 30 October, with Harvard University taking the top spot, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, all from the US. The UK’s University of Oxford came fifth. More...

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9 novembre 2018

UC Berkeley announces major focus on data science

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) is to form a new Division of Data Science and Information to prepare thousands of students and researchers to ‘bring data science to bear in the classroom, laboratory and workplace”. The decision has been made in response to the “profound and growing impact of data” in the digital world, according to a university statement. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Educators emerge as parliamentary candidates in election

By Shadi Khan Saif. Millions of Afghan voters defied grim security threats to take part in parliamentary elections in October, many of them voting for candidates from the education sector, who were prominent among those standing for election this time, and are now awaiting the results. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Beijing signals tighter control over dissenting scholars

By Yojana Sharma. A change in the highest echelons of China’s top university in Beijing is being seen by academics as a new tightening of control over dissenting thought among scholars as well as stronger oversight by the Communist Party of top universities in their role as influencers of young people. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Bolsonaro poses a serious threat to higher education

By Marion Lloyd. Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s ultra-right-wing president-elect, is not only a threat to democracy, women, Afro-Brazilians, indigenous people, gays and the Amazon Rainforest – the 28 October election of the retired army paratrooper also spells very bad news for Brazilian higher education. More...

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9 novembre 2018

The staff who are overlooked in internationalisation

By Fiona Hunter, Elspeth Jones and Hans de Wit. Over the past 25 years we have forgotten to bring academics and administrators with us in the development of the internationalisation process. In the beginning phase of the Erasmus programme, academics and their departments played a leading role in cooperation with partners and student exchange initiatives. With the growth of the programme, internationalisation became institutionalised, with core functions dealt with by leadership and international officers. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Turkey needs to do more to help Syrian academics

By Hakan Ergin. The war in Syria has led to the displacement of masses of Syrians. As the current statistics from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) indicate, the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has risen to over 3.5 million, 52% of whom are adults between the ages of 18 and 59. More...

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