By Mimi Leung and Yojana Sharma. A study of researcher mobility at 28 Swedish higher education institutions provides new and detailed data on how researchers move between institutions, nationally and internationally and confirms the positive impact of mobility on publication quality. Read more...
Mobile researchers have higher productivity – Study
By Jan Petter Myklebust. A study of researcher mobility at 28 Swedish higher education institutions provides new and detailed data on how researchers move between institutions, nationally and internationally and confirms the positive impact of mobility on publication quality. Read more...
Horizon 2020 endangered by low success rate, says EUA
By Jan Petter Myklebust. Horizon 2020 is endangered by critically low application success rates due to insufficient funding at the European Union and national levels, according to a consultation among the 150 member institutions of the European University Association or EUA. Read more...
‘Global university rankings data are flawed’ – HEPI
By Brendan O'Malley. Governments and institutions should ignore leading international university rankings because they are “unreliable” and “methodologically flawed”, according to a new analysis by the United Kingdom higher education think tank, the Higher Education Policy Institute or HEPI. Read more...
Can aid bring innovation to higher education systems?
By Brendan O'Malley. Supporting innovation and unplugging potential in higher education in today’s low-income countries going through demographic transition, especially in Africa and South Asia, may be a much tougher challenge than it has been in other parts of the world. Read more...
Building an innovation culture via the Bologna Process
By Joseph M Piro. Innovation, entrepreneurship and competitiveness have never been far from the Bologna Process agenda. From their initial mention in the original 1999 Bologna Declaration to the 2015 Ministerial meeting in Yerevan, Armenia, innovation and Bologna’s continuing commitment to it have been underscored. Read more...
Universities taking a seat at the innovation table
By Todd Davey, Victoria Galan-Muros and Arno Meerman. In 1957, a young engineering university was founded to overcome the economic decline and support manufacturing in its region. It went on to inspire Canada’s ‘technology triangle’, the birthplace of Blackberry and in excess of 500 new technology companies. Read more...
Eco-innovation: the promise and the practice
By Paulo Savaget and Cleonir Tumelero. A lot of hope has been invested in the potentially transformative power of eco-innovations to prevent ecological disaster and nowhere more so than in Brazil. Read more...
Universities must contribute to fighting inequality
By Arif Naveed. There is substantial evidence indicating how mass expansion of higher education widens socio-economic inequalities, benefiting those who are already privileged, at least in the short term. Read more...
A young innovator dedicated to helping Africa rise
By Mary Beth Marklein. He has introduced stacked crop beds and solar-powered water pumps to Zimbabwean villages and campaigned to change perceptions of Africa. His next goal is to bring solar power to schools. Read more...