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12 avril 2017

A step towards greater internationalisation in HE

By Robert Coelen. Towards the end of February, the Dutch government took another positive step towards enabling Dutch higher education institutions to fully participate in international higher education. More...
12 avril 2017

Are Chinese PhDs becoming more like US doctorates?

By Futao Huang. In a recent Centre for Global Higher Education working paper, I outline the changes that have occurred in the past decades in doctoral education in China and some of the challenges ahead, including corruption and a lack of international faculty with PhDs. More...
12 avril 2017

University rankings and the battle for talent

By Anand Kulkarni. As economies continue to build competitive advantage around knowledge in all its forms, the focus sharpens on how to nurture, attract and retain talent. More...
12 avril 2017

World-class universities policy fuels talent poaching

By Yojana Sharma. China’s headlong foray into creating world-class universities has caused an internal brain drain of talented academics from China’s poorer central and western regions towards the top-tier universities in the country’s major cities and regions. More...
12 avril 2017

Push for foreign students to stay on to work in Japan

By Suvendrini Kakuchi. Japan is hiring foreign talent and it is now a top priority that international students attending Japanese universities stay on in the country, with the government offering new incentives such as subsidised company internships, help with finding jobs on graduation, stepped-up Japanese language courses and more streamlined processes for work visas after graduation. More...
12 avril 2017

New ban halted, but foreign student applications fall

By Brendan O'Malley and Michael Gardner. Two federal judges last week blocked President Donald Trump’s new executive order temporarily banning entry into the United States from six Muslim countries – Iran, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Syria – which was due to begin after midnight on Thursday. More...
12 avril 2017

Senate passes bill for free public university tuition

By Brennan Weiss. The Philippines Senate has approved a landmark bill to provide free tuition for students in all state universities and colleges. The Free Higher Education for All Act was passed unanimously last Monday by a vote of 18-0. More...
12 avril 2017

Power of e-learning for renewable energy sector – Study

By Munyaradzi Makoni. At a time when distance education and e-learning are becoming increasingly popular and accessible, there remains insufficient awareness around the use of educational technologies in the field of renewable energy and its benefits in African higher education, according to a recent study. More...
12 avril 2017

Trump plans deep cuts to higher education spending

By The Chronicle of Higher Education reporters. President Donald Trump laid out the spending priorities for his administration on Thursday, releasing a budget 'blueprint' that includes a US$9 billion cut for the United States Department of Education, more than 13%, as well as decreases at several agencies that provide money for academic research, such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. More...
12 avril 2017

Fees for international students put on election agenda

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Minister of Education and Research Torbjørn Røe Isaksen said the Conservative Party will include a proposal to introduce “moderate tuition fees” for students from outside the European Economic Area, or EEA, in its party manifesto for the general election this autumn. More...
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