By Ellen Hazelkorn and John Goddard. The recent Brexit vote and the United States presidential election, as well as votes in Italy and Austria, highlight a growing gap between elites and others in society. Read more...
3 janvier 2017
3 janvier 2017
Leading better conversations about the role of HE
By Hamish Coates. Is higher education worth the cost, time and effort? Does it improve people, make them better citizens and create a more open and more scientific society? Does academic research serve as a catalyst for innovative change. Read more...
3 janvier 2017
An aspirational model for leading universities
By John Aubrey Douglass. The concept of the public 'Flagship University' as a leading national or regional public university has its origins in the emergence of America’s network of public universities in the mid-1800s. It included a devotion to the English tradition of the residential college as well as the emerging Humboldtian model of independent research and graduate studies, in which academic research would, in turn, inform and shape teaching and build a stronger academic community. Read more...
3 janvier 2017
BRICS need to capitalise on West’s turn to nationalism
By Bruno Morche. In the past few decades we have witnessed the growing importance of so-called ‘emerging’ countries on the world stage. A large group of countries that were traditionally described as ‘developing’ became known as ‘emerging countries’ or ‘emerging economies’. Read more...
3 janvier 2017
The role of social scientists in an age of anti-science
By Victoria Herrmann. I began on 1 January 2016 in American Samoa on a grant from National Geographic. I would spend the next month on the archipelago some 5,000 miles southwest of Hawai’i to kickstart a much larger project that examines the cultural and societal impacts of sea level rise on the United States and its territories. Read more...
3 janvier 2017
Rush to save climate change data before Trump era
By Goldie Blumenstyk, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Scientists, librarians and digital historians from a growing number of universities have begun a crowdsourced effort to copy and archive thousands of federal government websites and data sets related to climate change, the environment and other areas of scientific research that they fear could become compromised or inaccessible under the incoming Trump administration. Read more...
3 janvier 2017
Ewha University role scrutinised by corruption hearing
By Aimee Chung. South Korea’s National Assembly last week focused on the role of the prestigious Ewha Womans University as part of its fourth round of hearings into an influence peddling scandal surrounding embattled South Korean President Park Geun-hye. Read more...
3 janvier 2017
Education ministry blocks foreign university branches
By Mushfique Wadud. Bangladesh’s Education Ministry and its higher education regulatory body the University Grants Commission, or UGC, do not see eye to eye on foreign university branches in Bangladesh. Read more...
3 janvier 2017
Stop playing off refugees against students – DSW
By Michael Gardner. Germany’s Student Welfare Service, or DSW, has warned that students and refugees seeking accommodation should not be played off against each other in the face of a growing shortage of affordable housing. Read more...
3 janvier 2017
Sciences Po plots to reconfirm world-class position
By Jane Marshall. Three and half years ago Sciences Po, the Paris Institute of Political Studies, one of Europe’s most prestigious public policy research and teaching institutions, was in turmoil following the sudden death of its director, Richard Descoings, and the publication of a scathing report by the state auditor into its financial management. Read more...
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