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9 novembre 2018

Learning in the flow of life with help from AI

By Diana Oblinger. What do Facebook, Google and Amazon mean to higher education? These platforms, and hundreds more, represent a ‘digital smartness’ that comes from artificial intelligence (AI), big data, natural language processing, automation and robotics. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Academics and students wary of political crisis outcome

By Dinesh De Alwis. Over three years ago students and lecturers played a key role behind the scenes in the defeat of Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa. But Rajapaksa is now back as prime minister after a sudden and unexpected move by the country’s president, Maithripala Sirisena. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Guidelines to boosting indigenous research unveiled

By Geoff Maslen. Although completion rates remain low, Aboriginal Australians are enrolling in universities and graduating in greater numbers than ever before. New guidelines launched on Friday are aimed at assisting indigenous graduates who want to pursue research degrees and research careers. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Mixed response to minister’s call for more study abroad

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Norway's Minister of Research and Higher Education Iselin Nybø said that she wants more proposals and ideas for a government White Paper on student mobility. "While 16% of Norwegian students today have had a study period abroad by the time they graduate, the ministry wants this to increase to 20% by 2020 and to 50% in the long run," Nybø said to Khrono, Oslo Metropolitan University’s magazine. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Rising drop-out rate leads to call to scrap reforms

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The drop-out rate at Danish universities increased by 20% between 2014 and 2017, partly due to the ‘progress reform’, which aims to cut delays in time taken to achieving a degree, and due to the time limit set on students’ options to take more than one higher education degree, according to a new analysis published by Danish newspaper Information on 28 October. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Investigator backs tuition fees for foreign students

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The government investigator Agneta Bladh, appointed last year to work out a comprehensive strategy for the internationalisation of Swedish higher education, on 31 October presented her report to Minister for Higher Education and Research Helene Hellmark Knutsson and later shared it with an audience at Uppsala University. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Minister should explain why research grants are refused

By Geoff Maslen. Revelations that a former federal education minister had rejected a decision by the Australian Research Council (ARC) to allocate grants for 11 humanities projects have forced his successor to retreat – slightly. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Scholars hide military links from Western universities

By Yojana Sharma. China’s military has been expanding research collaboration with universities outside China, with more than 2,500 military scientists and engineers sponsored to study abroad in the past decade, according to a new report. It warns that Western universities and governments may not be fully aware of the legitimate security concerns that could arise, particularly as scholars often obscure their military affiliations. More...

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9 novembre 2018

Partnerships – The key to harnessing HE innovation

By Christabel Ligami. Against the backdrop of “formidable” challenges facing African universities in their roles as drivers of development and core-creators of knowledge-based economies, regional and global partnerships can help in fully harnessing higher education innovation in Africa, a recent regional higher education conference heard. More...

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9 novembre 2018

South Korea announces US$9 million scholarship grant

By Christabel Ligami. The South Korean government has announced a US$9 million grant for scholarships to support PhD students, research and innovation in various universities in Africa under the Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund (RSIF) programme. More...

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