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10 décembre 2018

The affluent are far more likely to attend university

Students from the most affluent parts of Dublin are up to 14 times more likely to progress to university than their counterparts from some schools in the city’s most disadvantaged areas, according to the annual Irish Times ‘Feeder Schools’ supplement, write Carl O'Brien, Peter McGuire and Éanna Ó Caollaí for The Irish Times. More...

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10 décembre 2018

Teaching engineering costs more than teaching English

New research on the cost differences in higher education found that colleges and universities in the United States spend more money on providing courses in pre-professional programmes and high-paying academic fields in science and engineering than on courses in the humanities and social sciences, writes Marjorie Valbrun for Inside Higher Ed. More...

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10 décembre 2018

Reorganisation sparks turmoil at top research museum

Over the past decade, the 40 researchers at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen have published more than 100 papers in Nature and Science, putting it among the world’s top research museums. But budget pressures are forcing a reorganisation that will split museum research from curation and outreach, writes Gretchen Vogel for Science Mag. More...

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10 décembre 2018

Bid to downgrade universities on teaching hours shelved

Plans to downgrade universities where students receive only a few hours of teaching each week have been quietly shelved. A backlash from vice-chancellors has forced the United Kingdom’s higher education regulator to abandon its proposal to consider the number of lectures and tutorials on offer when awarding new ratings for degree courses, writes Julie Henry for The Mail on Sunday. More...

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10 décembre 2018

Leading academic disputes claims of threat to free speech

Leading academic Professor Glyn Davis has disputed claims that free speech and academic inquiry are under threat on university campuses, labelling the issue a “confected calamity” that is ideologically driven, imported from the United States and not backed by Australian examples, writes Fergus Hunter for The Sydney Morning Herald. More...

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10 décembre 2018

Science body proposes human genetics ethics guidelines

The Academy of Science of South Africa has released a study it says is aimed at creating a more certain regulatory environment for government departments on matters relating to human genetics and the human genome, writes Duncan Alfreds for News24. More...

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10 décembre 2018

Researchers sign petition backing plans to end paywalls

More than 1,400 researchers have signed an online letter backing the principles of Plan S, the bold open-access initiative led by research agencies in Europe who say that, by 2020, papers resulting from their funding should be immediately free to read on publication, writes Richard Van Noorden for Nature. More...

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10 décembre 2018

Top universities collaborate on teaching

Five universities across the Yangtze River Delta in China have reached an agreement to explore a new teaching cooperation scheme that focuses on student development. It is expected to provide high-quality educational resources and promote lecturers’ teaching capability, writes Yang Meiping for Shine. More...

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10 décembre 2018

Soros-backed CEU says it has been forced out of Hungary

The Central European University (CEU) has announced that it has been forced to launch all new United States-accredited degree programmes in Vienna, Austria, in September 2019 instead of Budapest in Hungary. More...

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10 décembre 2018

Defiant vice-chancellor aims to ‘do things differently’

By Edwin Naidu. She was recently criticised on social media for her “inappropriate” attire at a recent university event, but the newly-appointed vice-chancellor of South Africa’s top research university, the University of Cape Town (UCT), says she is less concerned with fashion, and other critics, than with ensuring a shift in unfashionable attitudes on campus. More...

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