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10 décembre 2018

Concern over freedoms as university curbs thesis topics

By Ashraf Khaled. An Egyptian state university has said that thesis proposals for masters and doctoral degrees must conform to governmental development plans, raising concerns about academic and research freedoms in the country. More...

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10 décembre 2018

Saudi partnerships too valuable to give up – MIT report

By Steven Johnson, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Last March the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) welcomed Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, to its campus. Nearby, and captured in a photograph of the occasion, was Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, reportedly an intelligence officer who is often seen in the prince’s company. More...

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10 décembre 2018

Academic freedom goes on trial in Hong Kong

By William G Tierney. What should be the stance of a university when one of its faculty calls for peaceful protest. More...

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10 décembre 2018

Answer threats to academic freedom with engagement

By Jason E Lane. Last month, the United Arab Emirates sentenced Matthew Hedges, a 31-year old PhD student from the United Kingdom, to life in prison on allegations of spying. The international outcry was immediate and vociferous. Five days later, the UAE pardoned Hedges and allowed him to return to the UK – due, in part, to the bilateral relationship between the UAE and the UK and to the protests of the global academic community. More...

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10 décembre 2018

Creating safe, inclusive campuses through collaboration

By Joanna Newman. When the populist government in Hungary, led by Viktor Orbán, proposed a ban on gender studies in October – removing accreditation for a number of masters and PhD programmes without explanation – it contravened its commitments to its citizens and its multilateral partners. More...

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10 décembre 2018

Towards inclusive intercultural learning for all

By Betty Leask, Elspeth Jones and Hans de Wit. “Study the past if you would define the future,” Confucius said.
Today we increasingly hear of the importance of providing international and intercultural learning experiences for all students. And there is growing recognition that it is both impractical and unwise to focus on mobility as the primary means of developing intercultural awareness. More...

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10 décembre 2018

UC at tipping point, in pursuit of a new funding model

By John Aubrey Douglass. Like many other public universities, the University of California (UC) system is in a long transition from an era with relatively robust state subsidisation and low tuition and housing costs to the new world of public disinvestment, increasing operating costs, a focus on funding from students and their families and relatively new income sources. More...

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10 décembre 2018

Leading a university in financially challenging times

By Petra Wend. Diverse university funding systems in different countries around the world and varying degrees of autonomy lead universities to develop different strategic responses. Despite these differences, all universities face increasingly complex and fast-changing environments. More...

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10 décembre 2018

American science in decline as China’s rises

By John Richard Schrock. American scientists published 409,000 science, technology and medical papers in 2017, according to the journal Learned Publishing, which analysed data from the United States National Science Board. In the same period, those in China published 426,000. More...

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10 décembre 2018

When trade war spills over into academic cooperation

By Gerard A Postiglione and Denis Simon. As the United States and China were engaged in normalising relations in the late 1970s, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping became adamant that China should have “a thousand talented scientists” who would be recognised around the world. Deng wanted quick approval to send several hundred Chinese to study at top American universities. More...

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