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9 mai 2017

Court challenge to drastic PhD programme cuts at JNU

By Ranjit Devraj. The implementation of drastic cuts to MPhil and PhD programmes at India’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University, or JNU, in New Delhi must now await a final decision by the Delhi High Court, which is hearing a writ petition filed by a group of students challenging the reductions. More...

9 mai 2017

Tuition fees and cuts hit internationalisation of HE

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Finland is facing a sharp drop in applications by non-European Union and European Economic Area, or non-EU/EEA, students and an outflow of scientists, according to media reports. The introduction of tuition fees for international students and cuts in university funding are being blamed. More...

9 mai 2017

Inquiry heralds reform of HE governance and funding

By Jan Petter Myklebust. The government has announced that Professor Pam Fredman, rector of the University of Gothenburg, has been selected to lead a government investigation into university governance and financing. More...

9 mai 2017

Universities alarmed by further cuts to government funding

By Geoff Maslen. The federal government has confirmed university fears of further cuts to higher education spending and sharp increases in student fees. More...

9 mai 2017

New Asian universities’ alliance to increase mobility

By Yojana Sharma. A new alliance of Asian universities has held its inaugural meeting in Beijing pledging to increase student and faculty mobility between Asian countries to counter the tendency of professors and students to look towards the West. More...

9 mai 2017

Will the robot war on jobs change higher education?

By Steve Kolowich, The Chronicle of Higher Education. At a coastal California redoubt 90 miles south of Silicon Valley, Andrew McAfee told a group of tech luminaries in January that the war between robots and humans, long anticipated by science-fiction novelists, has already begun in the American heartland. The war is for jobs, he explained, and the robots are winning. More...

9 mai 2017

Which sections of the US public do not trust HE?

By Brendan O’Malley. Only 14% of Americans have a great deal of confidence in higher education and one in five US adults has “hardly any confidence in how colleges and universities are run”, according to a nationwide survey of 10,241 nationally representative Americans, the results of which were published in an article of The Journal of Higher Education. Read more...

9 mai 2017

Strengthening democracy through open education

By Patrick Blessinger. Open education is the policy and practice of broadening access to allow greater participation in lifelong learning and tertiary education. It is based on the principle that everyone has a right to benefit from educational resources. More...

9 mai 2017

Students today, leaders of globalisation tomorrow

By Danny Quah. Globalisation has historically been viewed, on balance, as contributing to world economic success. Unfortunately, in today’s ever-changing economic and political climate, many Western populations have lost faith in globalisation’s benefit and this has complicated the conduct of business for international executives. More...

9 mai 2017

Universities and students lose out in ‘reform’ package

By Angel Calderon. On 2 May, the Australian government announced a reform package which tells universities to take one for the country and get on with a reduction in funding (estimated at AU$2.8 billion billion or US$2 billion). More...

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