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25 janvier 2018

Can foreign branch campuses be research universities?

By Agustian Sutrisno. Many international branch campuses, or IBCs, are established by research-intensive universities in their home countries, such as Monash University Malaysia and NYU Abu Dhabi. There are also cases when a partnership needs to be formed between foreign and local universities – Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou is an example of an IBC whose ‘parent’ universities are both classified as research universities. More...

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25 janvier 2018

27 universities out-produce big economies on research

A group of 27 of the world’s top universities together produce more research than all but two of the world’s major industrialised nations, including Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. More...

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25 janvier 2018

The merits of equality in Africa-China HE collaborations

By Simon Ngalomba. The China-Africa relationship goes back centuries as evidenced by the discovery of Chinese coins and porcelain in East African archaeological sites. Much more recently, in the 1950s, the relationship took the form of bilateral trade agreements between China and African countries such as Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan and Somalia. More...

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25 janvier 2018

A global recognition convention for academic mobility

By Stig Arne Skjerven and Einar Meier. The 39th Session of the General Conference of UNESCO last month gave the green light to continue the work on UNESCO’s academic mobility convention, the Global Convention on the Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications, with the aim of formally adopting the new convention by UNESCO’s next general conference in November 2019. More...

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25 janvier 2018

International students worth £22.6 billion to economy

By Brendan O’Malley. International students are contributing £22.6 billion (US$31 billion) to the UK economy, 10 times their cost, and are worth £310 per UK resident, according to a detailed analysis of the costs and benefits to the UK of welcoming 231,000 new international students each year. More...

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23 janvier 2018

Lancement de l'Année 2018 de l'innovation France-Singapour

Frédérique Vidal, ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation, s’est rendue à Singapour, les 22 et 23 janvier 2018, pour lancer, l’Année de l’innovation France-Singapour. Elle était accompagnée de présidents d'instituts de recherche et d'universités françaises et d'acteurs clés de l'industrie. Plus...

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23 janvier 2018

Aberystwyth University's island campus set to close

Aberystwyth University is planning to close its overseas campus on the island of Mauritius just two years after it opened after the institution’s governing body decided it will "not enrol further intakes of students" at the branch campus from March 2018, reports BBC News. More...

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23 janvier 2018

Russia unveils plans for nuclear education centre

By Tonderayi Mukeredzi. Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom is assisting Zambia in establishing a nuclear education centre that will enhance inter-university cooperation by training qualified personnel to work in the field of nuclear technology. More...

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23 janvier 2018

Why China wants ‘Western-style’ liberal arts education

By Yojana Sharma. As Duke University in the United States prepares to set up an undergraduate liberal arts degree at its campus in Kunshan, China, and with other proposals for liberal arts degrees by foreign universities keen to tap another area of student demand making their way through China's gargantuan approvals system, China’s motivations for setting up ‘experimental’ liberal arts degrees are coming under scrutiny. More...

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23 janvier 2018

Branch campus is first step in building a US presence

By Wagdy Sawahel. The agreement between Webster University and the Uzbek ministry of higher education was announced at the 2017 US-Uzbekistan Business Forum held in New York City under the theme “Partnership Destined for Commercial Success and Longevity”, according to a 17 October report. More...

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