By Futao Huang. There has been rapid growth in the share of international faculty members in the Netherlands in the past two decades. Existing data show that in research universities alone, the proportion of international faculty members increased from 17% in 2003 to 33% of the total in 2015. Read more...
By Allen Kenneth Schaidle. We are often told that we live in a global era, driven in part by technology, globalisation and intensified international commerce. Read more...
The unions at the University of Mauritius, University of Technology, Mauritius and the Université des Mascareignes are planning to set up a student federation, reported L’Express of Port Louis. Read more...
The programme, supported by the American State Department, aims to prepare students to participate in US academic exchanges, enrol for studies in American universities and apply for jobs for which English is a criterion for selection, reported the Agence d’Information d’Afrique Centrale, or ADIAC. Read more...
By Yojana Sharma. The announcement of new inspections to be conducted of the party committees of 29 top universities in China as part of the country’s anti-corruption campaign is not just about rooting out malpractice but is also the latest move by the government to tighten ideological control of universities, experts say. Read more...
By Munyaradzi Makoni. When Munya Mahiya, then a 15-year-old Zimbabwe schoolboy, had his left leg amputated above the knee in 2009 owing to osteosarcoma, a form of cancer, he feared that his mainstream high school would not take him back and he would miss out on a chance at a normal academic education. Read more...
By Tunde Fatunde. In a rare show of solidarity, university teachers on almost all campuses of both public and private universities throughout the country have rejected a ministerial proposal that science be taught in three indigenous languages commencing at primary school level. Read more...
By Sharon Dell. The African Research Universities Alliance, or ARUA, a unique network of 16 top African universities, was created in 2015 to grow the continent’s contribution to global research and raise the profile of its research globally. Read more...
By Peter Vale. Given the disconcerting present, how can we explain our wretched past and understand our increasingly threatening future? This question continued to drift to the surface as I listened recently to presentations about the history of individual departments in Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Science – the name for the humanities faculty at that university. Read more...
By Laeed Zaghlami. A new plan is under way to develop clusters which bring universities and industry together around specific disciplines in a bid to better meet the country’s economic and social needs. Read more...
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