Could LinkedIn provide a better alternative to existing rankings?

By Brendan O’Malley – Managing Editor. In Features this week, Rahul Choudaha considers whether LinkedIn, with its focus on career outcomes rather than research citations, might be a game changer among university ranking systems.
From South Africa Munyaradzi Makoni reports on the ‘violation of the values’ of the leading University of the Witwatersrand by student representative council president Mcebo Dlamini, who professed to love Adolf Hitler and who lost his post, though for earlier charges of misconduct.
In World Blog, Margaret Andrews wonders if Arizona State University’s initiative to offer the entire first year of an undergraduate programme online marks the start of a changing market for higher education.
In Commentary, European Commissioner Tibor Navracsics reviews the successes of the Bologna Process and hopes for renewed focus at an imminent Bologna policy conference in Armenia.
Jon Gluyas explains why the fossil fuel divestment campaign at universities against multinational oil companies is misdirected – it is governments that really have the power to deliver lower carbon societies. And Roopa Desai Trilokekar, Amira El Masri, Sheila Embleton, Zainab Kizilbash and Neville Panthaki say that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Canada was a missed opportunity to strengthen higher education collaboration. Read more...